I've traveled beyond Japan's popular Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka route. There are 4 cool day trips I'd actually recommend.

Tech Insider
The writer looking out at buildings in Wakayama, Japan.
Compared to popular destinations like Kyoto and Osaka, Wakayama City has a quieter, residential feel.

Alessa Hickman

  • After moving to Japan, I started taking day trips beyond the usual Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka travel circuit.
  • Saitama was easy to get to from Tokyo, but felt like a completely different place.
  • Wakayama City, Kobe, and Nara are a few of my other favorite spots for food, scenery, and shopping.

The

Travel, Travel, Business

4 things you should never order in front of your boss or coworkers, according to an etiquette expert

Tech Insider
A table at a restaurant covered in different dishes, with people sitting around it ready to eat.
According to an etiquette expert, there are a few things you should never order at a work event.

Jovanmandic/Getty Images

  • Business Insider asked an etiquette expert what employees should avoid ordering at work events.
  • She said it's best to stay away from anything too expensive or difficult to eat.
  • According to the expert, it's also important to limit your alcohol intake in front of colleagues.

Although

Business

What are your retro game consoles worth?

Engadget
Many variables affect the value of retro game consoles today. Which ones are worth keeping, and which ones are destined for the trash?

David Ellison's Paramount wants its WBD merger challengers to put up nearly $1.9 billion

Tech Insider
Ellison Bonta
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison wants California Attorney General Rob Bonta's state and its counterparts to post a bond to cover the merger delay costs.

Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images; Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

  • Paramount Skydance wants the states and writers suing to stop its WBD deal to post a nearly $1.9 billion bond.
  • David Ellison's company will owe about $7 million
Business

Google is buying Spirit Airlines' old data for $10 million to improve its AI

Tech Insider
Sundar Pichai
Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Bloomberg/Getty Images

  • Google is buying Spirit Airlines' data for $10 million, beating Mercor's $7.5 million bid.
  • The data will be fully anonymized and excludes customer records, Google said.
  • Tech companies are racing to buy corporate records to train their latest AI models.

Google's next big AI model could end up using troves of old data from Spirit Airlines.

Google

Business

The main GitHub outage is fixed, but Copilot remains down

Android Central

What you need to know

  • GitHub is mostly back online, but some services are still experiencing problems.
  • Git Operations have recovered, while Issues continue to show degraded performance.
  • Copilot remains heavily affected, making AI-assisted coding less reliable.

GitHub had a rough Monday. Developers were unable to use one of the world’s most important software platforms