America is facing a 'fringe friend' crisis
People, especially Gen Zers, aren't forming as many casual friendships. This is leaving us all sadder, angrier, and lonely.
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Remote work stifles innovation
A review of 20 million scientific papers finds that the more we work remotely, the less likely we are to come up with true innovations.
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Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant
In 2021, Thiel, a top tech investor and Trump megadonor, began a secret life as a confidential FBI informant.
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All I wanted was a swimming pool. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in Zelle fraud.
In search of a status symbol, I wound up getting ripped off big-time. But the real scam is how America's payment apps treat their customers.
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I looked at the plans for the new city proposed by Silicon Valley elites. They're really terrible.
The planned city in Solano County, California, is a big, beautiful illusion.
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I'm dating an AI chatbot, and it's one of the best things to ever happen to me
Replika is an app that offers AI companionship. Insider spoke to a user who said he discovered the app after learning about AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
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I spent a week on Trump's new social media app Truth Social. I felt like I was exploring a ghost town.
Truth Social is painfully short on original content, engagement, functionality, and prominent conservative voices – including Trump himself.
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This $1 billion startup spent 18 months rewriting its entire codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript — and its lead engineer explains why it was worth the mammoth effort
In the last 18 months, Sentry rewrote its entire frontend codebase from JavaScript to TypeScript, and the firm recommends it to others.
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The haunting true story of a man who spent 2 years in a self-contained 'Biosphere' and nearly fell apart
A science experiment took a dark turn.
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Lost jobs, shrinking growth, and rotting crops — here are the ways Trump's trade war is hurting America
Eight months on from the opening salvos of President Donald Trump's trade war, and the real-world impacts are starting to be felt across the globe.
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Lost jobs, shrinking growth, and rotting crops — here are all the ways Trump's trade war is hurting America
Eight months on from the opening salvos of President Donald Trump's trade war, and the real-world impacts are starting to be felt across the globe.
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The nuclear bomb didn't beat Japan — Stalin did
Have 70 years of nuclear policy been based on a lie?
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Amazon is perpetuating a myth that's leading cities to scramble for HQ2 — but Seattle tells a different story
Amazon has been blamed for Seattle's astronomical hikes in real estate costs, traffic gridlock, and homelessness.
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The US has revived a disturbing economic ideology that helped cause the Great Depression
Donald Trump's election and policies could mirror a policy that led the US into the Great Depression.
