Every city in America looks exactly the same now

Tech Insider : Economy
A couple from the big city looks at a selection of small cities with notifications on them, vying for attention while all looking the same.
Remote work caused a flood of new arrivals to small and midsize cities. And now those cities all look the same.

Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider

How every American city became exactly the same

Why Threads will never be the new Twitter

Tech Insider : Politics
Twitter logo with the threads logo in its mouth like a worm
Threads doesn't have any of the magic that made Twitter popular in the first place.

Twitter, Threads, Tyler Le/Insider

Meet Hollywood's hottest new movie star: corporate brands

Tech Insider : Economy
Barbie, Mario, and a beanie baby with paparazzi flashes surrounding them
Brand-centric films like Barbie have a dark side: They are a symptom of the precarity of today's job market.

Barbie/Mattel, Mario/Amazon, Tyler Le/Insider

The last, best hope for homebuyers

Tech Insider : Economy
Newly constructed houses shine brightly on a grassy field, which a line of eager homebuyers filing at the bottom of the hill, for a chance to snatch this housing from this new construction boom. The sky in the background is a greenish purple.

Arantza Pena Popo/Insider

The dirty little secret that could bring down Big Tech

Tech Insider
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New research reveals that Silicon Valley uses predatory pricing to crush competitors and scam investors — evidence the government can use to bust up tech monopolies.

Tyler Le/Insider

The job market is never going to return to normal

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
Empty office chairs crowded into a corner, and one chair rolling by the pile
The coming surge in boomer retirement will create a labor shortage that will last for decades — and that's great news for everyone.

Arif Qazi/Insider

How can you tell if someone isn’t really into doing you a favor?

Tech Insider
Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down
Every two minutes or so, all over the world, someone asks someone else for a small favor. and all over the world, almost everyone says yes. All the time.

Arif Qazi / Insider

How humans behave during natural disasters

Everyone fled big cities during the pandemic. So why is your rent still so damn high?

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
An apartment building with individuals moving into empty rooms
If you're wondering why your rent is still so high, look no further than all the people who ditched their roommates over the past few years.

Tyler Le/Insider

Because people ditched their roommates

It's official: Gen Z is the Hustle Generation

Tech Insider : Economy
A collage of browser windows with a gen z person scrolling, drawing, and taking a photo
Gen Z doesn't believe in the promise of the 9-5 corporate job — so they are creating new side hustles and forging their own career paths.

Tyler Le/Insider

RIP Metaverse, we hardly knew ye

Tech Insider : Economy
An illustration of a tombstone reading
The Metaverse, once the hottest idea in tech, is headed to the industry's graveyard of failed fads.

Robyn Phelps/Insider

An obituary for the latest fad to join the tech graveyard

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