Welcome to the Great Internet Splintering

Tech Insider : Economy
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People are leaving big platforms for smaller online circles. It's the start of a new, healthier era of social media.

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A night inside a strip club near Ukraine’s front lines

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Woman standing in front of ruins in Ukraine.
Valeriya Zavadskaya, 24, co-owns Flash Dancers with her mother. "Our goal is to be a switch from what is happening," she says.

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wanted was a swimming pool. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in Zelle fraud.

Tech Insider : Economy
An illustration of a pool with floaties in the shape of a frowning face

A pool could have been evidence that my life hadn't amounted to nothing. But after we Zelle-ed the deposit to our contractor, things started to go very wrong.

All I wanted was a status symbol. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in the downside of payment apps.

I looked at the plans for the new city proposed by Silicon Valley elites. They're really terrible.

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California Forever
California Forever presents an idyllic vision of city life — but it's completely clueless about how cities actually work.

California Forever

Meet the families who are ditching America to travel abroad as digital nomads

Tech Insider : Economy, Travel
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Remote work has lead to a boom in people traveling the world — and now people are taking their kids with them.

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The job Americans would most like to see replaced by robots

Tech Insider : Sports
Robo-umps
Robo-ump has been sold as a futuristic solution to an age-old problem: With a computer-powered strike zone, an afternoon at the park will never again be ruined by human error.

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Paid sabbaticals can make the difference in retaining top talent. Here's proof.

Tech Insider : Economy
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Crissie Hoskins' company paid her to take two months off work. It made her more passionate about her job.

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You vs. 4,000 other applicants: Inside the frenzied scramble for remote jobs

Tech Insider : Economy
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At this point you're 60 times more likely to get into Harvard than to land a job that lets you work from home.

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Inside the frenzied scramble for remote jobs

It's not just you. LinkedIn has gotten really weird.

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A variety of LinkedIn case studies.
Is aggressively posting on LinkedIn actually good for your career? That may depend on your prospective employer's LinkedIn persona.

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It was a hard day for Matthew Sciannella: He was officially getting divorced.

The distressing downside of fitness trackers

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A women looks overwhelmed as she tries to concentrate on all the fitness metrics buzzing and moving all around her.
Fitness trackers have taken over. But is the deluge of fitness data making Americans healthier?

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