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.

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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

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.

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

Tech Insider
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.

Xavier Lalanne-Tauzia for Insider

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

America is stuck in a greased-pig economy

Tech Insider : Economy
Bankers wrestling a piggy bank
America has been living in an economic version of the greased-pig game — and if we lose our grip on inflation, things could get ugly.

Liam Eisenberg for Insider

Trying to catch a greased pig is an American tradition that has fallen out of fashion — so you're forgiven if you don't know the rules. 

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