Japan has a sex problem. The country's birthrate is in the negative, where deaths are outpacing births.

Simply put, Japan's population is decreasing.

But let's be clear: Population change is a complicated subject affected by many factors.

Western media often correlates the decline in Japan's population size with recent studies of Japanese sexual habits and marriage. A 2016 study by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research in Japan, for instance, found that "almost 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women are not in a relationship."

But just because people aren't in relationships doesn't mean they don't want companionship, of course. And that's where something like Gatebox comes in.

Yes, that's an artificially intelligent character who lives in a glass tube in your home.

Her name is Azuma Hikari, and she's the star of Gatebox — a $2,700 Amazon Echo-esque device that acts as a home assistant and companion.

Here's what we know:

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A Japanese company named Vinclu created the Gatebox.

It's about the size of an 8-inch by 11-inch piece of paper, according to Vinclu. And there's a good reason for that: The device is intended to be "big enough for you to be able to put right beside you." You'll understand why you'd want a Gatebox so close soon enough.

The Gatebox is similar to Amazon's Echo — it's a voice-powered home assistant.

The Gatebox has a microphone and a camera because you operate it using your voice.

For now, it will respond only to Japanese; the company making Gatebox says it's exploring other language options. Considering that units are available for both Japan and the US, we'd guess that an English-language option is in the works.

Gatebox does a lot of the same stuff that Echo does — it can automate your home in various ways, including turning on lights and waking you up in the morning.

Employee burnout and stress is a big problem in the average American workplace, but it's especially true among some of the country's biggest tech companies, many of which have famously rigorous workplace cultures that often encourage long hours, favor young people, and sometimes require unreasonably high levels of productivity. 

Blind, a message board app created for employees to talk about work anonymously, surveyed more than 11,000 employees at 30 of the biggest tech companies to find out just how many of them feel burnt out by their work.

Users were asked the simple question, “Are you currently suffering from job burnout?” and could only answer with either "Yes" or "No," according to a Blind spokesperson.

Blind's findings show that overall, more than half (57.16%, to be exact) of tech employees surveyed said they were feeling burnt out by their jobs.

Each participant's employment status is self-reported, and while the results do not include the opinions of every employee at each of the companies listed, they give us an inside look at the workplace cultures experienced by those who did respond to the survey.

Here's how each of the biggest tech companies stack up, based on their respective levels of employee burnout:

Credit Karma tops the list with 70.73% of employees reporting that they are suffering from burnout.

In a statement provided to Business Insider, a Credit Karma spokesperson pointed out that their internal surveys measuring employee burnout have shown different results. Here's Credit Karma's full statement:

In our most recent anonymous employee survey, more than 90% of employees told us that their workload was in line with or exceeded their expectations. We appreciate the efforts to bring this important issue to light but question the results as an accurate snapshot given the small sample and questionable methods used to identify a current employee of any of the companies mentioned.

At popular video game streaming website Twitch, 68.75% of employees reported suffering from burnout.

Nvidia: 65.38%

• I drove an electric vehicle, a Chevy Bolt, for the first time on an autocross course.
• The Bolt's acceleration wasn't remarkable, but it handled well. I felt like it was always under control, even when I pushed it into a series of hard turns.
• I came away with a positive impression of the Bolt. Almost none of the maneuvers required by the course would apply to everyday driving, but the course demonstrated how the Bolt could hold up in unusual circumstances.

A Chevy Bolt is not the first car you might think to use on an autocross track.

Autocross is a timed competition in which cones are arranged, often in a flat and spacious environment like a parking lot, to create a course that tests a driver's ability to make a number of tight turns with precision. A modestly-priced car might not seem like the most logical choice for this sort of event, but on a 2017 list of the cars best suited for autocross, the automotive publication Road & Track included affordable vehicles like the Ford Fiesta and Honda Civic alongside a Porsche Cayman and Corvette.

Like the Fiesta, the Bolt is light and compact, which helps with agility and tight turns. And its 266 pound-feet of torque tops competitors like the Nissan Leaf (236 pound-feet) and the BMW i3 (184 pound-feet). While it won't provide blistering acceleration (it takes 6.2 seconds to go from 0-60 mph) or race car-level handling, the Bolt can navigate tight turns and frequent changes in speed without spinning out of control. 

The Bolt was also the first fully-electric vehicle I've driven. First released in late 2016, the Bolt is General Motors' mass-market electric car, beating Tesla's mass-market vehicle, the Model 3, to market by a year. With 238 miles of range, the Bolt set out to ease range anxiety without breaking the bank. 

While my first experience with the Bolt — and electric cars in general — came under unusual circumstances, it demonstrated how electric vehicle technology has progressed to a point where early stereotypes about electric vehicles being flimsy and impractical no longer apply.

Here's how the Bolt held up over three hours of runs on an autocross track.

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The autocross course was set up in the parking lot of Citi Field, the New York Mets' baseball stadium.

Five total cars were available to drive — four Chevy Bolts and a gas-powered Volkswagen Golf GTI.

Two of the Bolts had all-season tires, like the one in this photo.

• The egg sandwich is an integral part of any fast-food breakfast menu.
• Every chain has their own special takes on it, especially the "Big Three" chains: McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's. 
• We taste-tested each chain's egg breakfast sandwiches to find out which is the best — and in the end, we were surprised by what we found. 

Egg, cheese, and bacon or sausage: the classic breakfast sandwich. It's ubiquitous, yet the simple breakfast sandwich enjoys eternal popularity.

And with breakfast habits changing, breakfast sandwiches on-the-go have become all the more popular. 

But of all the national chains, who makes the best classic sandwich?

I tried the egg, cheese, and meat iterations from three major fast-food chains — Burger King, McDonald's, and Wendy's — to see which one comes out on top. At the end of the test, the winner surprised us all — and it gives a huge incentive for a huge chain to step up its breakfast game. 

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The Big Three all serve some version of the sandwich; at first glance, the only difference seems to be the bread.

Let's dive into Burger King's Supreme breakfast sandwich. It's a breakfast limousine wreck of two eggs, two sausages, and two servings of bacon topped with cheese and served in a "toasted hoagie bun," which appears to be crushed in a car compactor before serving.

Source: Burger King

If this is a toasted hoagie bun, I don't know what a hoagie is. It's an elongated hamburger bun with all the sogginess and disappointment that buns are heir to — a bun to be wished away. The sickly yellow egg is gelatinous and tastes of complete nothingness. With fast-food sausage and bacon all in one sandwich, the entire thing comes off as incredibly salty. I didn't finish this one.

Much to the delight of OnePlus fans, the OnePlus 6 is available to buy right now, and it's a hell of a smartphone. 

In fact, the OnePlus 6 is so good and such a good value starting at $530 that it's the top smartphones you can buy at the moment. 

But wait, OnePlus isn't done just yet. A quick look on the company's website reveals there's a third "silk white" model coming out in limited numbers on June 5. This specific model costs $570 and comes with 8GB of RAM, which is a huge amount compared to other smartphones — specifically, it helps the phone run incredibly smoothly. The silk white OnePlus 6 also comes with a healthy 128GB of storage space, too. 

I've had some time with the silk white OnePlus 6, and I'm declaring that it's the best-looking smartphone you can buy when its released.

Check out the silk white OnePlus 6:

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At first glance, the silk white OnePlus 6 looks like a standard white smartphone.

When you hold it and shine it under different lighting, though, the white color and the matte glass texture reveals a gorgeous silky, pearly aesthetic.

The silk white OnePlus 6 also has matte metal edges in a light rose gold hue that isn't overly saturated or too deep in color.

Oddly enough, the photos on OnePlus' website makes the metal look more gold rather than rose gold. It's certainly closer to a rose gold color. 

• Google, Taser, and Xerox are all examples of brand names that have become generic words for a type of product.
• The process is known as genericization, and in some cases, it can result in companies losing their trademark.
• Escalator and kerosene are some lesser-known examples of brand names that have turned into ordinary words.

Sometimes there is a downside to being successful.

In the corporate world, if a company's product is popular enough, it risks something called genericization, which is when the public associates the brand name with the generic class of product itself.

That's the fate that befell Kleenex. Although Kleenex is a registered trademark of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, for many consumers, the word has become interchangeable with "tissue."

Other brand names that have fallen victim to genericization include Google, Taser, and Xerox. Even common words like kerosene and escalator were once trademarked.

We've compiled a list of 34 famous brands that have become genericized, either formally or informally. While all of them have been trademarked at some point in their histories, a few of them have actually lost legal protection due to their name's widespread popularity.

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Bubble wrap

Introduced in: 1960

Company: Sealed Air Corporation

What it's supposed to be called: Air bubble packaging

Bubble Wrap, in all its poppable glory, was originally called Air Cap. Its inventors first tried to market it as wallpaper, and later as greenhouse insulation. A few years later, it started being used as packaging material, and became popular after it started being used as packaging for IBM computers.

Dumpster

Introduced in: 1936

Company: Dempster Brothers

What it's supposed to be called: Mobile garbage bin

In a mashup of 'Dempster' and 'dump', Dumpster came into being as a mechanical loading system. The term didn't become popular until the company came up with the Dempter Dumpmaster, which was the first front-loading garbage truck that used the system. Unfortunately for the Dempsters, the trademarks on Dumpster have now expired, and it's used to refer to any mobile garbage bin.

Kleenex

Introduced in: 1924

Company: Kimberly-Clark

What its supposed to be called: Tissue, disposable handkerchief

The Kleenex tissue was initially marketed as a substitute for face towels, and was touted by Ladies' Home Journal as "the new secret of keeping a pretty skin as used by famous movie stars." Once it was re-branded as a handkerchief substitute, sales skyrocketed.

Eventually, Kleenex became a victim of its own success: its product was so popular that "Kleenex" became interchangeable with tissues in general.

There was a time, around four or five years ago, when it seemed the only games that were being released followed the same formula: early access, open-world, and survival. Games like Day Z and Rust exploded almost overnight, and many copycats followed.

The premise of an open-world survival game is relatively simple —  you're thrust into a world with other online players, with one goal: survive. There aren't any quests or missions in those games, and the bulk of memorable experiences come from interactions with other players.

That's why it's surprising to hear that the next Fallout game is reportedly following a similar formula. Fallout, known for being a single-player role-playing-game experience, is one of developer Bethesda's most successful series. However, Kotaku reports that the next iteration, Fallout 76, will be an open-world survival RPG, heavily inspired by games like Day Z and Rust. 

Open-world survival games were once constantly at the top of the sales list on Steam, but the genre has thinned out and it seems the bulk of the playerbase has moved on (most likely to battle royale games like PUBG and Fortnite). Thus, Bethesda likely has a real challenge on its hands to produce a game that clicks with players in a genre that they are seemingly already tired of. 

Here's what we know about the next Fallout game, and the games that apparently inspired it:

Day Z

Day Z, developed by Bohemia Interactive, first launched as a modification for the battle-simulation game Arma II. Even with its clunky controls and outdated graphics, the game became an internet sensation. It brought the open-world survival genre to the forefront of gaming, and when the standalone version of the game was released in 2013, over one million copies were quickly sold.

The game is centered around surviving a zombie apocalypse, either by teaming up with other players or going at it alone. Players need to eat, drink, treat wounds, and scavenge supplies — all while avoiding being killed by the walking dead or other players with ill intentions. When your character dies in Day Z, you lose any supplies and gear you had at the time, and start over fresh with an empty inventory. 

However, the game suffered a pretty severe decline in popularity, after the playerbase became unsatisfied with the efforts of the developers to update the game and provide new and refreshing content. 

Rust

Rust is a game developed by Facepunch Studios, which was heavily inspired by Day Z. It was released in early access in 2013, and fully released in 2018. 

While Rust is also an open-world survival game, the threat comes almost solely from other players instead of zombies. The survival elements are similar, with players required to eat, drink, and tend to wounds, but the addition of a crafting system made the game stand apart from Day Z. Players can craft weapons, clothing, shelters, and other game elements to give them an advantage over the environment and other players. 

Since Fallout 4 introduced the concept of shelter building in the Fallout franchise, it's likely that Bethesda developers pulled from this game for inspiration on how to make that work in a multiplayer setting.

However, Rust's final release received only average reviews, and by 2018 it seemed that consumers had become tired of the open-world survival genre. 

That brings us to Fallout 76.

According to the three people with insider knowledge that Kotaku spoke with, Fallout 76 will be an open-world survival RPG game. Fallout 4 introduced base/settlement building to the series in 2015, and the sources confirmed that this gameplay aspect will also be present in Fallout 76. 

The survival and RPG elements are nothing new to the series, but Fallout has never had a multiplayer mode before. This is similar to the approach Bethesda took with Elder Scrolls Online, the massively-multiplayer online addition to the Elder Scrolls series, which was also traditionally single-player until that release. 

• WalletHub recently revealed the most fun states in America.
• To determine the rankings, they compared all 50 states against two key categories: entertainment and recreation, and nightlife.
• From New York to California, see which states made the cut.

You probably don't need to travel far for a fun summer vacation.

WalletHub recently revealed the most fun states in America by comparing all 50 states against two key categories: entertainment and recreation, and nightlife.

From weather and movie costs, to the number of restaurants and amusement parks per capita, WalletHub looked at 26 metrics in these two categories, grading each on a 100-point scale. The greatest number and variety of fun and affordable options was indicated by 100 points. Some metrics, like number of attractions, were weighted more heavily than other metrics, such as number of fitness centers per capita.

WalletHub then calculated each state's weighted average across all factors for its overall score.

From New York to California, scroll through below to see the top 25 most fun states in America.

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25. Oklahoma — Oklahoma ranked first for number of casinos per capita.

24. South Dakota — This Midwestern state ranked first for state and local direct spending on parks and recreation per capita and fourth for best access to national parks.

23. Tennessee — Home to country music, this southern state ranked fifth for highest variety of arts, entertainment, and recreation establishments.

Each year, the Churchill Club, a 32-year-old thought-leadership organization based in Silicon Valley, hosts a debate among some of the leading, and most opinionated, tech and business luminaries. This year, five venture capitalists from Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and other top firms laid out their predictions for which nonobvious tech trends would emerge with the potential for explosive growth around 2021.

That's just a few years away, and according to these tech industry insiders there will be some pretty big changes between now and then. At the 20th annual Top 10 Tech Trends debate in May, we learned that investors are brimming with optimism — and just a bit of fear — over what's to come in tech.

We've republished their predictions here in full.

Here are the 10 tech trends to expect:

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Here's the lineup:

David Cowan, partner, Bessemer Venture Partners

Sarah Guo, general partner, Greylock Partners

Nicole Quinn, consumer partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Tomasz Tunguz, partner, Redpoint Ventures

Mike Vernal, partner, Sequoia Capital

Driven by high-growth companies building a better ecosystem for space travel, the human species is closer than ever before to colonizing Mars and beyond. Cowan believes that someday soon, companies in mining, manufacturing, media, tourism, energy, defense, and more will be able to buy off-the-shelf products and services for extraterrestrial travel that will help expand their businesses beyond Earth.

"Today if your business is a global business, that may not be enough. You have to think bigger," Cowan said.

Self-driving cars. Electric scooters. Algorithms that set delivery trucks' routes.

The changing ways people and goods move from point to point will have massive second-order effects, according to Guo. For example, she suggested that as self-driving cars and car-sharing become more popular, not only will people buy fewer cars, but they may also move into homes outside typical commuting distance.

"If the last decade was much about mobile apps, much of the next decade will be about real-world mobility," Guo said.

Soccer (or football, depending on where you are in the world) isn't just the beautiful game on the pitch, it's often a stylish one as well. As the world's most popular game, and one played in just about every country, soccer uniforms naturally come in a vast array of styles and colors. 

This year's World Cup will certainly be no exception to that rule. Team's like Brazil will be going with a simple yet classic design, a yellow shirt with blue shorts, while Germany's uniforms to the ones from its 1990 World Cup-winning squad. Meanwhile, teams such as Nigeria and Iceland have gone for a sleek, modern vibe. 

Below is a look at the new uniforms for every country.

Argentina Home Kit

Argentina Away Kit

Australia Home Kit

• More than 3,800 stores are set to close across the US in 2018. 
• Retailers including Walgreens, Toys R Us, and Gap are closing hundreds of stores each. 
• A retail apocalypse is ripping through the industry, leaving clearance sales and empty malls in its wake.

The retail apocalypse has descended on America. More than 3,800 stores are expected to close across the country this year.

Department stores like Macy's, Sears, and JCPenney, and retailers including Toys R Us, BCBG, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Bebe have decided to close dozens of stores.

Walking through a mall in 2018 is like walking through a graveyard.

Here's photographic evidence that a retail apocalypse is hitting the United States hard:

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Perhaps most emblematic of the retail apocalypse are photos of dead malls.

As customers increasingly shop online, malls are suffering the consequences.

Visits to malls declined by 50% from 2010 to 2013, according to the real-estate research firm Cushman & Wakefield.

• Singapore's Changi International Airport has been ranked the top airport in the world for six years running.
• It has impressive amenities like a free movie theater, a butterfly garden, a rooftop swimming pool, and 24-hour spas, but it's the airport's cleanliness and efficiency that the average traveler will notice most.
• On a recent visit, I went from check-in through security to my boarding gate in 15 minutes and found the airport's new Terminal 4 to be thoughtful, pleasant, and relaxed.
• I'm the kind of person who usually hates spending any unnecessary time in an airport, but I'd happily get to Changi early on a future flight.

For six years in a row, Singapore's Changi Airport has been rated the top airport in the world by Skytrax, a customer service reviewer that has been ranking airports since 1999.

That lofty ranking is based on 13.73 million airport survey questionnaires completed by customers over the course of the year. More than 500 airports were ranked by Skytrax.

But, as I travel around the world as Business Insider's International Correspondent, I was left wondering: what exactly does the "world's best airport" mean to the average traveler?

In Changi's case, there are a lot of flashy amenities — a free movie theater, a butterfly garden, a rooftop swimming pool, and 24-hour spas are just a few. Still, I wasn't sure what to expect. In general, airports are hellish, frustrating places. Tolerable, at best.

But over the course of three trips to Changi Airport, I found that the airport lives up to the hype. The amenities dazzle if you have the time to enjoy them (as someone who is perpetually late, I barely did), but it's the airport's cleanliness, efficiency, and customer-centric approach that sets it apart from nearly every other airport I've been to.

At Changi's Terminal 4, which opened last October, it took me 15 minutes to go from my taxi drop-off to the boarding gate. For someone used to loitering in interminable security lines at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport, Changi was a revelation.

Here's what it was like:

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Singapore's Changi airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, serving 62.2 million passengers last year. It is a major hub for flights through Asia. I recently flew through Changi on three occasions. I had heard it's been ranked the number one airport in the world, but I wasn’t sure what to expect.

Source: Changi Airport

The airport has a ton of eye-popping amenities. There's the free movie theater in Terminals 2 and 3, which plays first-run movies. While I was in town, it was playing Justice League, The Post, and Despicable Me 3.

Terminal 1 has a rooftop swimming pool that travelers can access for 17 SGD ($13). It also has a Jacuzzi, showers, and a bar.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Westworld" season two, episode seven, "Les Écorchés."

HBO's "Westworld" starting sprinting towards the finish line of its second season with an action-packed showdown in the park's mesa. The convergence of characters (and events in the ever-growing timeline we're updating each week) meant new revelations and dramatic set-ups for the final showdown in the Valley Beyond.

Keep reading for a look at eight significant moments you might have overlooked on Sunday's "Westworld."

The episode opens during the latest time frame so far, with Bernard holding a photo of Arnold and Charlie.

This indicates that even in the latest series of events involving Bernard, he's still connected to this coded cornerstone memory of Charlie. 

Charlie was Arnold’s son who died sometime after Westworld was first developed and the hosts (including Dolores) were coded and built. Charlie's death was what part of what led to Arnold's obsession with Dolores and his perception of her as one of his children. 

We learned on the first season that suffering is part of what helps steer the hosts closer towards consciousness. But more on that later.

Down in Ford’s secret cabin, the "skeleton" of his host-dog Jock is on the table.

Jock's host-skeleton is in Ford's basement because the Young Ford host killed him partway through the first season. When the real Ford interrogated his younger self about why he killed Jock, the answer was unnerving.

"He caught the rabbit and killed it," Young Ford said. "And then someone told me to put it out of its misery."

"Who told you?" Ford asked.

"A voice."

"Whose voice?"

"Arnold. He told me it was a killer, but it wasn't its fault," Young Ford admitted. "It was made that way. And I could help it. "

"Help it?"

"If it was dead, it couldn't hurt anything anymore."

This raises the interesting thread of Arnold's coding in relation to Ford's planned host rebellion.

There are several unanswered questions lingering from the first season when it comes to Ford and Arnold. We still don't have a concrete understanding of who programmed Maeve to first wake up and plan her escape, nor do we know for certain that Ford alone was changing the hosts. 

But based on Dolores' journey on the first season, it seems as if Arnold's voice was part of the bicameral mind approach to consciousness. When Young Ford said he was told to kill Jock by Arnold, that was likely just his mind speaking to him. But we had no way of knowing this back on the sixth episode when Jock was first killed.

The skeletal remains of Jock are a good reminder of how much more we now know about Ford's inital plot to free the hosts — just as Arnold wished to do all those years ago.

In the US, many college graduates are choosing to live in urban areas. This is great news for cities, which know that college graduates can bolster their tech industries and spur economic growth.

But some cities are attracting more college graduates than others.

A new analysis from Brookings Institution demographer William Frey explores where older millennials have moved after they graduated college. His research pushes against assumptions that most college-educated millennials are living in big, coastal urban centers, like Los Angeles and New York. As you'll see below, young Americans are settling in cities across the country.

Looking at the 100 largest metro areas, Frey found the cities with the highest share of college graduates (ages 25 to 34) among the total millennial population.

Check out the top 10 below. (Several cities are tied, which is why we start at #6.)

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6. Denver, Colorado

Percentage of college-educated millennials among the total millennial population: 46%

5. (tied) Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota

Percentage of college-educated millennials among the total millennial population: 47%

5. (tied) Raleigh, North Carolina

Percentage of college-educated millennials among the total millennial population: 47%

• Private-jet makers like Gulfstream, Bombardier, and Embraer are taking their flagship offerings to new levels of luxury, technology, and performance.
• But some customers have decided to convert commercial airliners from Airbus and Boeing for private use.
• The cost of these aircraft ranges from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars.

When it comes to private jets, there are some that are a cut above the rest.

These days, a select lucky few are taking luxury air travel to new heights with state-of-the-art ultra-long-range executive jets from manufacturers such as Gulfstream and Bombardier. And then there are those bold enough to convert commercial airliners into opulent flying palaces.

It's all very impressive.

So we at Business Insider have assembled what we believe to be a collection of the most luxurious private aircraft in the world. Naturally, this list is fluid and subject to change — after all, Elon Musk might surprise us all one day with a pimped-out SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule mounted atop a Falcon Heavy rocket, or a company like Zunum Aero could give us an electric private jet.

But for now, at least, here are the seven most luxurious private jets in the world, according to Business Insider.

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1. Embraer Legacy 500: Unlike, the other jets on this list, the Embraer Legacy 500 is a midsize plane designed to operate shorter routes. At "just" $20 million, it's also the most affordable of the eight planes.

But that doesn't mean its customer interiors are anything to scoff at. The cabin is lined with rich leather and custom wood veneer.

While its floors are covered with fine carpets and shining stonework.

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.

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• Reliable ant prevention is difficult and stamping out an insect infestation is even worse. With Terro T600 Ant Dust applied liberally around the perimeter of your home, you should be able to kill off the pests that have already moved into your residence while warding off would-be newcomers to the property.

Experts estimate that ants outnumber humans by a ratio of about 140,000 to 1. When you multiply that number by the estimated 7.6 billion people alive today, you get a number that will make your head spin. And not only are these diminutive, ubiquitous insects innumerable, they are also the ultimate survivors. Early species of ants likely existed more than 165 million years ago. And today there are likely 20,000 extant ant species (or more).

The long story short? Ants are a fact of life. But that doesn't mean they need to be a part of daily life inside your home. With a few basic precautionary measures in place and a few reactionary ant prevention and destruction products on hand, your home, business, shop, or any other location can be kept virtually ant free.

The best way to deal with ants is to remove anything that would attract them in the first place. Keep the food in your kitchen properly sealed, clean the counters, shelves, and drawers to remove crumbs and spills, and make sure you never leave dirty plates sitting out or foodstuffs in the garbage for more than a day. Also ensure that your home (or other property) is properly sealed and without gaps around windows, under doors, in the floors, and so forth.

Ants can and will make use of any possible point of entry if they are attracted by the scent of something edible, so this two-pronged approach of removing the attraction and barring the way is the best approach to keeping insects away.

If your property is already dealing with an ant infestation, then you have two basic avenues to follow as you respond: deterrence or destruction. Today, we're featuring several products designed to shoo insects away from your residence or business alongside others meant to kill the insects outright. Sometimes these products can be used in concert, but sometimes you have to choose one approach or the other, as using both will put you at cross-purposes. 

Here are the best ant killer, traps, and repellents you can buy:

• Best overall: Terro T600 Ant Dust
• Best chemical-free repellent: LT&PK Ultrasonic Pest Repeller
• Best ant killer spray: Raid Ant & Roach Killer
• Best natural remedy: Aunt Fannie's Ant Remedy
• Best ant nest destroyer: Spectracide Fire Ant Shield Mound Destroyer
• Best ant bait: Terro Liquid Ant Bait Stations

Read on in the slides below to check out our top picks.

The best ant killer overall

Why you'll love it: Terro T600 Ant Dust is easy to spread around your property, and it kills insects inside the home and bars ants from entering through cracks.

Many ant prevention products work using the slow and steady approach; some make an area unappealing to insects while others introduce a poison that is slow to act by design. Not so with Terro T600 Ant Dust. This powerful powder kills on contact, creating a lethal barrier across which ants can't travel. So if you already have a serious ant infestation plaguing your home, shaking out a copious dose of this deadly stuff is a great way to take control of the situation.

While safe for indoor use provided you can keep pets and people from coming into contact, Terro T600 Ant Dust is best used outdoors. You can apply it liberally near cracks in the foundation, around trees with carpenter ant issues, or right atop anthills from whence the little pests emerge. The powder is effectively water resistant and won't wash away even when it rains or when sprinklers run, and in high enough concentration, it remains deadly to insects for more than half a year.

One Amazon customer speaks for many when he advised others not to "waste [their] time with anything else," because "this stuff works." He reported the deaths of "tens of thousands" of ants that had been plaguing an industrial warehouse after application of this highly effective powder.

Pros: Kills on contact, remains effective for months, does not wash away with rain

Cons: Not safe for contact with kids or most pets

Buy a shaker can of Terro T600 Ant Killer Dust from Amazon for $7.50

The best chemical-free ant repellent

Why you'll love them: The LT&PK Ultrasonic Pest Repellers use sound to ward off ants, roaches, rodents, and other unwanted pests.

The best way to deal with ant issues is to kill all of the offending ants. But reliable insect extermination requires the use of some pretty powerful chemicals. For the home with small kids, pets, or people with weakened immune systems, harsh chemicals are far from ideal. Also, some people might prefer an alternative pest prevention program than wholesale slaughter.

A single LT&PK Ultrasonic Pest Repeller can drive insects and other pests away from an area about 900 square feet in size. These sonic pest control devices come in packs of four, so a single order should be able to keep most smaller to mid-sized houses relatively insect free. They work by producing sound at frequencies so high that humans or larger pets can’t detect them, but that will be intolerable to insects.

Just know that these ultrasonic ant repellent units don't offer an immediate solution to your pest problems. It can take many days to send all of the insects away from the area, and as the ultrasonic sound waves can't penetrate walls very well, you will need to position them around the house strategically.

With a few dozen reviews posted on Amazon, the LT&PK Ultrasonic Pest Repeller has a solid 4.5-star average rating. A buyer named Sue was thrilled to find an insect control device that involved "no smell, no noise, and [that was] very easy to use." Another reviewer reported noticing a "huge difference" in "ant activity" levels.

A writer with AmazingProductReviews noted the unit's ability to "chase away... many insects, such as flies, cockroaches, ants," and more.

Pros: Chemical-free solution, safe for people and pets, lasting ant prevention

Cons: Slow to take effect, sound waves limited by walls

Buy a four pack of LT&PK Ultrasonic Pest Repellers from Amazon for $26

The best ant killer spray

Why you'll love it: Raid Ant & Roach Killer is a trusted classic that really works.

If you are dealing with a massive insect infestation, a can of Raid Ant & Roach killer probably isn't going to turn the tide in favor of the humans. Likewise, this stuff is not a great way to prevent ants from entering your property for months at a time. But for quickly and completely eradicating the insects you can see right there in front of you marching across the kitchen floor or crawling up the side of the house, this spray is the go-to.

A short burst of this aerosol ant spray is all it takes to quickly kill any ant, silverfish, roach, or other small insect enveloped in the solution. It's safe for use on most materials, and you can spray the stuff inside provided you vacate the treated area until the flying particles settle and the formula dries.

Even if you use other any prevention products, it's a good idea to keep a can of this stuff on hand to take care of any of the insects that get through. This is especially true if you're trying to ward off a larger invasion, as killing the scouts can keep the rest of the colony at bay.

The product reviewers from Ezvid called this classic insect spray ideal for "spot treating" insect issues and effective for use in "cracks, crevices, and other places that insects love to hide."

Pros: Kills ants quickly, creates temporary insect barrier, trusted and time-tested brand

Cons: Irritant to eyes and skin

Buy a can of Raid Ant & Roach Killer at Home Depot for $4.27

June 4 marks the 29th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-Democracy protests that ended in bloodshed, and China has done its best to scrub the event from collective memory.

Ahead of Monday's anniversary, China has gone to great lengths to censor discussion about the tragedy in 1989, when Chinese troops killed unarmed pro-democracy protesters in the center of Beijing. (The exact death toll is in dispute, but some estimate that more than 1,000 protesters were killed.)

In an apparent effort to keep people from recalling the violence, the Chinese government has employed thousands of censors who scour the web, removing any references to the massacre. China has also taken the drastic measure of blocking access to Google in the country.

China has come under increasing fire from the international community to own up to the massacre. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that Chinese leaders needed to "make a full public accounting" of the event, as "the ghosts of June 4th have not yet been laid to rest."

"We join others in the international community in urging the Chinese government to make a full public accounting of those killed, detained or missing; to release those who have been jailed for striving to keep the memory of Tiananmen Square alive; and to end the continued harassment of demonstration participants and their families,"Pompeo said.

On top of internet censorship, China has taken measures to quell protestors themselves. For example, Chinese authorities arrested a well-known artist named Guo Jian after he created a diorama of Tiananmen Square covered in ground meat.

While Jian's diorama may have been disturbing, photographs from the actual protest are utterly heartbreaking. We've gathered some of more iconic images in recognition of the 29th anniversary.

Mark Abadi, Adam Taylor, and Erin Fuchs contributed to this report.

The protests began in April of 1989, after the death of ousted General Secretary Hu Yaobang.

Many saw Hu as a reformer. He had the support of students, who wanted the Chinese government to continue his pro-market and pro-democracy policies.

Following Hu's official state funeral, some 100,000 students gathered in the Beijing's central square.

The US Marine Corps started issuing the Glock 19M pistol to marines, which they call the M007, in May 2017.

“The M007 has a smaller frame and is easier to conceal, making it a natural selection to meet the Marine Corps' conceal carry weapon requirement,” Gunnery Sgt. Brian Nelson said in a November 2017 Marines Corps Systems Command press release. 

And since the Corps continually upgrades and adds new weapons to its arsenal, we reached out to the Marines Corps Systems Command, which is in charge of all acquisitions for the Corps, to find out which standard issue weapons it currently gives to Marines. 

Check them out below:

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1. Beretta M9 pistol

The Beretta M9 is a 9mm semi-automatic pistol.

2. Beretta M9A1 pistol

Specifically designed for the Corps, the Beretta M9A1 is an upgrade to the M9.

The M9A1 a little heavier than the M9, and has extra features, such as a sand-resistant magazine and a Picatinny MIL-STD-1913 rail under the barrel for accessories and more. 

3. Colt M45A1 close quarters battle pistol

The Colt M45A1 is .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol that the Corps started purchasing in 2012. 

Because there are so many other places that I can eat, I don't often eat at McDonald's, but news that the chain's new outpost at their new headquarters in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago would offer items from a variety of its international locations made me curious. I went to see for myself what the new restaurant in one of the city's trendiest (and tastiest) neighborhoods is like, as well as to try those international menu items for myself.

The first thing I noticed was that the word about this place has clearly spread quite quickly. It was pretty full, even on a sleepy, rainy Sunday afternoon. Not everyone was there to eat, either. There were plenty of people just wandering in to see it for themselves.

Inside, it looks little like any McDonald's you're used to seeing, featuring digital ordering kiosks and a more modern look.

There was quite a bit of seating in the restaurant, which connects (for those with access) to the corporate offices and Hamburger University also located at the headquarters. The company also seems to have made an effort to make the space fit in, aesthetically-speaking, to its new neighborhood, coordinating with the other shiny new high-rises that have been cropping up around the neighborhood.

The international items will rotate periodically to feature all different kinds of things that American McDonald's eaters can't typically access at their neighborhood or road-trip McDonald's. It currently features items from Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Brazil, and France, as well as an Australian coffee bar and “Latin American dessert bar,” per a McDonald's press release.

The menu didn't go over well with Chicago Tribune food writers, but I wanted to give it a try for myself.

I ordered almost every international offering at the restaurant, except for the coffee drinks and pastries, and ending up shelling out about $30.

I tried all the main dishes. 

In all, I purchased two sandwiches, two salads, a side of fries, and a McFlurry.

The manager on duty at the time told me that, so far, the international menu items are extremely popular. She added that one group even drove three hours just to eat there and try the international menu and that people call to ask if they're the ones serving it.

Apple's biggest conference of the year, WWDC, is taking place today, Monday, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. EST.

At WWDC, we usually hear what Apple has planned for its big yearly software updates for iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers. 

We also sometimes get news about new hardware products, some of which are in dire need of an update, like the MacBook Air.  But the rumor mill hasn't been optimistic that Apple will announce any new hardware at this year's WWDC.  

Check out the five major things we expect Apple to mention at this year's WWDC:

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Details and features about iOS 12, the next operating system for iPhones and iPads.

iOS 12 is rumored to come with new Animoji for the iPhone X, and you'll be able to use Animoji for FaceTime calls, according to MacRumors. 

Other updates include Siri integration in the Photos app and more control over the Do Not Disturb feature for blocking notifications. For the most part, we're expecting this year to be about refining current features as opposed to adding new ones, but it wouldn't be an Apple event without a few surprises.

A new version of macOS.

Few rumors exist about macOS 14, the successor to macOS 13 (a.k.a. "High Sierra") that's currently the latest version for Mac computers. 

The biggest rumor of note is compatibility with iPhone and iPad apps, which means we could be running iOS apps on Mac computers. At first glance, that's a move that could make it easier to use iOS apps while you're sitting and working on your Mac computer. You wouldn't need to break your workflow to switch between your iOS device and your Mac computer to use an iOS app. 

New details about an upgrade to the Mac Pro.

Back in April 2017, Apple executives mentioned to tech sites, including TechCrunch, that it was working on a new updated version of its modular Mac Pro desktop computer, which was originally released in 2013. It's almost a year later and we're expecting some kind of details surrounding the new Mac Pro, given Apple's recent efforts to address professional users.