The creepy AI-driven surveillance that may be infiltrating your workplace

Tech Insider : Economy
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Anna Kim for BI

Can a machine tell that you're mad just by looking at your face? Do your emails give away how stressed you are? Could a computer understand your emotions better than you?

Modern Loneliness: A series exploring the loneliness epidemic

Tech Insider : Economy
A woman looks longingly out of a car window. She rests her head on her folded arms, her face obscured from the viewer. Outside, people walk by under the bright glow of city lights.

Holly Stapleton for Business Insider

Confessions of a startup founder's wife

Tech Insider : Technology
A man on the left writes ideas on post-it notes, while a woman on the right types on her computer.
Lately, I've been fixated on a nagging question: Would my marriage be happier if my husband's startup failed?

Josh Cochran for Insider

Chatbots just showed scientists how to make social media less toxic

Tech Insider : Politics
A scientist experiments with AI.
Researchers built a fake Twitter and filled it with 500 bots. What happened next surprised them.

Ian Grandjean for Insider

A modern etiquette guide for group chats

Tech Insider
A bunch of people talk into a group chat.
The group chat has become the fulcrum of civilization and its discontents. In order to survive and thrive as humans, it's time for us to agree on group-chat etiquette.

Min Heo for Insider

Buying a home has become way too complicated

Tech Insider : Economy
Among a tangle of jungle plants and vines, a lane of houses appears, with eager real estate agents stand in front of the doorways. And the lane narrows, the horizons depicts the houses fragmenting, a lone orange house surviving in the large expanse of a starry night sky.
Two decades after companies like Zillow and Trulia revolutionized home search, the rest of the process remains pretty much the same.

The sad, lonely secret behind America's never-ending wave of Marvel movies and Disney reboots

Tech Insider : Economy
A conga line of franchise characters.
Media companies are in the business of selling nostalgia — and it's because Americans are lonely.

Joanne Joo for Insider

Build IT explores digital transformations that are developing information technology across industries

Tech Insider : Technology
Build IT series: An office located on a dynamic and transforming framework, featuring a Tetris-inspired design with shifting shapes in the platform to convey the sense of a constantly evolving digital and technology-driven work environment

Glenn Harvey for Insider

Big Tech made America lonely. Now it needs to fix the crisis it helped create.

Tech Insider : Economy
In a black glitchy abyss of floating glowing boxes full of lonely people on some form of technological device, two boxes float near each other towards connection.
Big Tech's obsession with feeding customers exactly what they want made Americans lonely. Now the industry has a chance to redeem itself.

Dadu Shin for Insider

Now the industry needs to help bring us back together

Welcome to the Great Internet Splintering

Tech Insider : Economy
People walking away from phones showing various social media logos
People are leaving big platforms for smaller online circles. It's the start of a new, healthier era of social media.

Hugo Herrera for Insider

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