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Rent continues to climb across the nation — but apartments in these 20 cities are actually getting more affordable
- Rent growth has been steadily declining since late 2022, according to a new report.
- However, rent is still historically high since the market remains very competitive.
- Rent is falling on a year-over-year basis in cities like Cleveland and Detroit.
Inside 18 difficult months at Salesforce
Salesforce's 18-month roller coaster tested Marc Benioff's values. He calls it a 'master class.' Insiders wonder if he turned his back on Ohana.
Amazon employees being pushed out of the company have a little-known Slack channel. Leaked messages reveal anguish, despair, but also community.
Workers describe their sometimes-harrowing experiences of being on the company's performance-improvement plan.
Jamie Dimon's 'tone deaf' return to office mandate is getting pushback from JPMorgan staffers, who are complaining about being stuck on Zoom calls even while in the office: Reuters
Employees vented about an April 12 memo requiring senior staff to be in the office five days a week, posting comments on an internal messaging system.
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Disappointing photos show what it's like to visit the Great Smoky Mountains in constant pouring rain
A strange new TikTok trend called 'sludge content' has Gen Z hooked
"Sludge" TikToks are multiscreen videos made by cropping together at least two unrelated clips. Some users can't get enough of them.
A Michigan 7th grader pulled off the heroic act of stopping a school bus carrying around 66 students after his bus driver lost consciousness at the wheel
The student, Dillon Reeves, told his parents that he knew what to do because he observed his bus driver stop the bus every day.
The difference between game-changer weight loss drugs semaglutide, tirzepatide, and liraglutide
Tirzepatide, marketed as Mounjaro for diabetes, could soon become the latest weight loss drug to be approved alongside semaglutide, known as Ozempic.
FBI searches the $4 million home of former FTX exec Ryan Salame, report says
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame's attorney previously gave prosecutors information relating to a political donation scheme, Bloomberg reported.
He's played chess with Peter Thiel, sparred with Elon Musk and once, supposedly, stopped a plane crash: Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction
With the success of ChatGPT, Altman has turned into a household name. And he's just getting started.
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NASA's Voyager probes have been traveling through space for 45 years. Here are 18 groundbreaking photos from their incredible mission.
NASA is working to extend Voyager 1 and 2's lifespan. But as the probes near the end of their scientific mission, here are 18 of their iconic pictures.
Google and DeepMind must put aside years of rivalry and risk ruffling feathers to take on OpenAI, ex-employees and collaborators say
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November, Google has been on high alert over the threat that rival generative-AI tools pose.
A bitcoin thief who stole $5 million of the crypto and posed in a dollar-filled bathtub is sentenced to 4 years in prison
Gary Harmon pled guilty to stealing 713 bitcoin in January. Law enforcement agents found a photo on his phone showing him posing in a tub of cash.
Rubio warned politicians against going after companies for 'political purposes' after Disney sued DeSantis
Sen. Marco Rubio said he doesn't "have a problem with taking on Disney," but worries businesses may fear they could become political targets.
After a year of heavy losses, Ukraine's military is juggling a 'very uneven' force as it prepares for major fighting, expert says
Ukraine's military has taken heavy casualties, but its has grown due to mobilization. As a result, it now fields troops with a mix of experience.
Voyager 2 has been in space for 45 years. NASA just found a way to keep it alive for another 3, despite it being 12 billion miles from Earth.
The Voyager 2 probe, which left Earth in 1977, has helped redefine our knowledge of the solar system. NASA says it still has some life in it yet.
I was the first woman to be hired as a pilot by a major US airline in 1973. When I first started, they called me 'the little girl' and a uniform for women didn't even exist.
When American Airlines hired her, Bonnie Tiburzi, a 24-year-old flight instructor, was the only woman among 214 new hires. This is her story.
10 Things in Tech: Amazon Slack, industry extinction, and top EVs
In today's edition: Tech jobs are going extinct, the five most fun EVs to drive, and more headlines.
How to watch the NBA Playoffs: Where to stream every game online
The 2023 NBA Playoffs are underway with games spread across TNT, ESPN, ABC, and NBA TV. Cord-cutters can live stream games on services like Sling TV.
These indicators tell us the housing market is hitting the brakes
Insider's Phil Rosen looks ahead to how the housing market could shake out in 2023 as a downturn looms.
People living in New York, San Francisco, and Honolulu need to earn $300,000 to feel like they're making $100,000 as inflation bites, survey says
Inflation surged to highs not seen since the 1980s in 2022, and remains elevated, pushing the cost of living higher.
'Love Is Blind' is hell on earth: Contestants say producers deprived them of food and sleep, preyed on their anxieties, and refused to let them quit
"Love Is Blind" was supposed to be a different kind of dating show. But contestants say being on the series was traumatic: "It literally ruins lives."
A hacker ripped me off for $10,000. The scam turned out to be brilliant — and terrifying.
Verizon, Chase, and the police were all useless when my identity got hacked. Then Psycho Bunny came to the rescue.
Sorry, homebuyers. Houses aren't getting cheaper.
Buyers may wince at higher rates. The economy may be wheezing. But there just aren't enough homes for sale to sink prices, Zillow's Skylar Olsen said.
A Rivian buyer got his dream car after a 3-year wait. Days later, the car was dead and he faced a $2,100 bill.
Chase Merrill's honeymoon phase with his Rivian R1S didn't last long. Two days after it arrived, the electric SUV was bricked in the snow.
Google, Amazon, and Meta are making their core products worse — on purpose
Google, Amazon, Meta, and other big tech companies are making their core products worse and ruining everything from apps to the internet.
Heinz offered the fisherman who survived 24 days at sea a new boat with GPS, but he didn't get enough money to buy one with a navigation system
Heinz said it would get "ketchup boat guy" a new boat "with full navigational technology," but hasn't given him enough money for a GPS system as well.
TympaHealth, a startup making hearing tests more accessible, just raised $23 million with this 27-slide pitch deck
The startup has developed a tool to capture high-definition images and videos of patients' ears and then send the data to audiologists.
Photos show just how big the SpaceX Starship mega-rocket is
SpaceX's Starship is the biggest rocket ever built by height, but it can be hard to depict how enormous that is unless you have some humans for scale.
Wealth advisors once snubbed Wall Street for First Republic. Now, they are running back to firms like Morgan Stanley.
First Republic lured top talent from Wall Street giants like Morgan Stanley with big bonuses. Now those recruits are fleeing despite the cost.
iPhone thieves are using a security feature to lock users out of their Apple accounts, report says
The "recovery key" can make it almost impossible for Apple users to access their own account, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Today's Mortgage and Refinance Rates: April 28, 2023 | 30-Year Rates Inch up Again, but They Should Fall Soon
These are today's mortgage and refinance rates. Rates have started rising after falling earlier this month. But they're expected to decrease again soon.
The world's 12 wealthiest people got richer by $36 billion in a day - and have now gained $264 billion in net worth this year
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and nine of their peers are collectively worth as much as Google-parent Alphabet's entire market value.
Amazon stock sinks after its warning on AWS growth erases a post-earnings rally
Amazon shares jumped and then sank in after-hours trading Thursday after executives issued a gloomy forecast about growth in its cloud division.
8 stocks with strong buy ratings, high dividends, and above 20% upside, according to a fintech company that ranks them
Buying dividend stocks pays off during periods of uncertainty. Analysts highly recommend these eight right now.
BlackRock bond chief Rick Rieder manages $2.7 trillion and just took home a Morningstar award for best portfolio manager. He told us how he's investing as the economy fades.
Fresh off an award from Morningstar, BlackRock bond chief Rick Rieder told Insider how he's positioned across the stock and bond markets right now.
The rise of the 'bait-and-switch' job interview
The work-from-home revolution has led to a wave of tricksters faking their way through job interviews — causing chaos for companies and coworkers.
Travelers are slamming Airbnb chore lists that tell guests to mow the lawn, do the laundry, and take out the trash — on top of paying $125 cleaning fees
"If I'm paying $229 a night to stay somewhere, plus a $125 cleaning fee, I'm not doing any laundry," one traveler said in a viral TikTok.
Watch your back: Here are the 4 kinds of employees most likely to get laid off in the current downturn
A study of 17,000 recent layoffs reveals who is most at risk of losing their jobs.
China had a plan to dominate tech and become the world's most powerful country. It's all gone wrong.
Chinese President Xi Jinping had a plan to dominate tech and become the world's most powerful country. It's all gone wrong.
Remote work is killing Florida as a retirement paradise
Home prices in Florida have soared by 33% — almost twice the national average. The dream of retiring to the Sunshine State is officially over.
I went on MSC Cruises' Meraviglia now sailing year-round from NYC — see what it's like aboard the 5,700-guest vessel
New York is now MSC Cruises' third US home port after Florida's PortMiami and Port Canaveral. The cruise giant is looking to rapidly expand in the US.
Mark Zuckerberg, whose Meta laid off thousands of people, is now the 12th richest person on the planet after his wealth surged to $87 billion
Meta reported a 3% year-on-year revenue growth in the first quarter of 2023, reversing three consecutive quarters of revenue decline.
A 30-year-old tech worker who brings in up to $20,000 in monthly Airbnb revenue from 5 units explains her strategy for renting in expensive NYC and buying in 'undervalued' areas elsewhere.
A couple of Zillow searches "ruined my appetite for buying something in New York," said Julia Lemberskiy. So she started looking out of the city.
Russians trying to help the Kremlin are being scammed into throwing Molotov cocktails at its offices and cars instead: reports
Most of the would-be arsonists were senior citizens, local media reported. Some were told they were helping Russia's military with the attacks.
Centuro Global becomes the latest AI startup to tap up investors in 2023. Check out the 16-slide pitch deck it used to raise $4 million.
The London-based startup makes tax and immigration compliance in new markets much easier for companies that are scaling globally.
Big China investor Ray Dalio says that if the US goes to war with China, there should be rules like not fighting on each other's soil
If war breaks out, both sides should draw lines like agreeing not to kill each other's troops or abstaining from space weapons, Dalio said.