China’s instructions to citizens not to visit Japan during the coming Lunar New Year holiday has been welcomed by some Japanese weary of overcrowding at tourist hotspots, while local travel operators say the immediate impact on business is likely to be limited. Beijing’s advisory, issued on Monday through the Chinese foreign ministry and diplomatic missions,…
High Tech Pet Roll Up Door ZDNET’s key takeaways The Power Pet Roll Up Door by High Tech Pet is a smart pet door, starting at $630. It’s a smart doggy door that makes exit and entry fully automatic, featuring an accompanying collar, adjustable sensors, and solid installation. Though smart, the door doesn’t offer third-party…
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would “de-escalate a little bit” in Minneapolis, amid a backlash over the killings of two people by federal immigration agents. “We’re going to de-escalate a little bit,” Trump told Fox News after he sent his border tsar Tom Homan to the city and was expected to pull out…
Parcel delivery giant UPS says it will cut up to 30,000 jobs this year as it further reduces shipments for its biggest customer, Amazon. The world’s largest package delivery company has been scaling back deliveries for the online retail giant, which it says are “extraordinarily dilutive” to its profit margins. UPS says the job cuts…
A US Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting in Arizona, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that his office was working with the FBI and Customs and Border Protection to look into the incident. The Santa Rita Fire District said one person was in critical condition. CNN,…
Getty Images Research suggests most of us will have unsettling scenarios flash into our mind from time to time Have you ever sat in a boring meeting and wondered: “What if I just started shouting?” Or you’re driving along and you think: “What if I crash?” These unsettling scenarios are known as “intrusive thoughts” which…
Hello and welcome to Regulator, the Verge newsletter about the technology politics happening in our nation’s capital. I hope our snowstorm-affected readers are safe, warm, and haven’t reenacted The Shining at home yet. Do you know what prevents that? Subscribing to The Verge. Last week, when I was tracking Coinbase’s opposition to the Clarity Act,…
Soroush Negahdari,BBC Monitoringand Ghoncheh Habibiazad,BBC Persian WANA via REUTERS Iranian authorities responded with lethal force as the protests in Tehran escalated on 8 January “My friends are all like me. We all know someone who was killed in the protests.” For Parisa, a 29-year-old from Tehran, the crackdown by security forces in Iran earlier this…
Ye,formerly known as Kanye West, has issued another public apology. Any rejection of hate is, in theory, a positive step. Antisemitism is on the rise globally and language from cultural figures with enormous reach matters. As we have recently seen in D.C., Boulder and Bondi Beach, fomenting antisemitism and extremist rhetoric can lead to violence….
Netflix’s documentary reexamining the legacy of America’s Next Top Model is drawing early criticism from one famous former contestant: Adrianne Curry. The upcoming three-part series — Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model — features the show’s former producers and judges, including Tyra Banks, looking back at the long-running reality hit and reflecting on the…
