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Delay in Transactional Emails

Apr 24, 04:41 UTC
Resolved - Our Engineering team has resolved the issue with the email delivery delays. Services should now be operating normally.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Apr 24, 00:28 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has confirmed the email delivery delays caused by an issue with an upstream provider has been mitigated. We are now seeing successful delivery of previously delayed emails, as well as normal flow of new messages.

We are currently monitoring the situation closely and will share an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.

Apr 23, 22:34 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team is aware of an issue with an upstream provider that is impacting the delivery of emails from DigitalOcean to DigitalOcean customers.

Beginning 20:55 UTC, users may experience delays in receiving emails from DigitalOcean, including sign-in verification codes, sign-up verifications, maintenance notifications, and other transactional emails.

Our team is closely monitoring the situation and has begun to see signs of recovery, with both delayed and recent emails starting to be delivered.

We will provide further updates as they are available.

Chinese sellers and U.S. buyers prepare for the end of ultracheap shopping

23 April 2025 at 05:00
Phillip Dampier, in Rochester, New York, spends up to eight hours a day on Chinese shopping sites, and has already shelled out about $3,500 on electronics and home goods. He...

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FILE -- A shopper at a Shein pop-up store at The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano, Texas, Aug. 26, 2022. Two bipartisan bills were introduced in Congress this week seeking to change a nearly 100-year-old trade law that allows imported packages that fall under a certain price threshold to receive less oversight while moving through the United States customs process. Shein is one of the companies the bills would affect. (Cooper Neill/The New York Times)

Spaces Bucket Creates

Apr 22, 19:05 UTC
Resolved - From 16:54 to 18:17 UTC, users may have experienced issues creating Spaces from control panel due to the datacenter region options failing to list.

Our Engineering team has implemented a fix and confirmed full resolution of the issue. Users should be able to create Spaces from Cloud Control Panel without issues now.

If you continue to experience problems, please open a ticket with our support team. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Apr 22, 18:30 UTC
Monitoring - Our Engineering team has implemented a fix to resolve the issue impacting the creation of Spaces. Users should now be able to create Spaces without any issues.

We are actively monitoring the situation and will post an update as soon as the issue is fully resolved.

Apr 22, 18:08 UTC
Identified - Our Engineering team has identified an issue with creating Spaces through the Cloud Control Panel. During this time, users are unable to create Spaces buckets due to the datacenter region options failing to list. Creating Spaces buckets through the API remains functional. All other Spaces functionality is unaffected.

A fix is in progress and we will provide an update as soon as we have more information.

Apr 22, 18:03 UTC
Investigating - Our Engineering team is currently investigating an issue with creating Spaces through the Cloud Control Panel. During this time, users may experience difficulties when selecting the Data Center option, as it is not listing correctly. We apologize for the inconvenience and will provide an update as soon as we have more information.

Tracking the global fallout of Trump’s escalating trade war

9 April 2025 at 05:00
Update: As of April 9 at 2PM ET, President Trump has announced that the tariffs will be paused for 90 days and replaced with a near-universal 10%. This does not...

© Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images

Workers sort out packages at a delivery company warehouse to be delivered to customers during "Singles' Day" -- the world's biggest 24-hour shopping event -- in Beijing on November 11, 2019. - Chinese consumers closed in on a new spending record November 11 during the annual "Singles' Day" frenzy, the world's biggest 24-hour shopping event, which kicked off this year with a glitzy show by US megastar Taylor Swift.

Illegal charging stations are powering Delhi’s e-rickshaw revolution

9 April 2025 at 05:00
India’s pollution-choked capital city is making a big push for electric vehicles, but much of the adoption is powered by illegal means in the absence of adequate government support. Late...

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A driver in Okhla packing the charging equipment/metre after charging his e-rickshaw at an unofficial charging spot

Trump’s tariffs are testing Nvidia’s chip supremacy. Can Jensen Huang weather the storm?

8 April 2025 at 10:20
Stephen Witt’s new book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, is out this week, just as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have prompted fears...

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Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., on March 18, 2025.

Uber wades into a fierce price war to stay competitive in India

8 April 2025 at 05:00
India’s homegrown ride-hailing startups are forcing Uber to rethink its strategy. In February, the Silicon Valley giant ditched its commission-based pricing for two- and three-wheeler segments, allowing drivers to pay...

© Andy Ridder/VISUM/Redux

New Delhi, Indien. Blick von der Dachterrasse des Vivek Hotel in New Delhi auf das pulsierende Leben dieser Großstadt. © Andy Ridder / VISUM

iPhones were already losing ground in China. Then came Trump’s tariffs

7 April 2025 at 12:30
At a Huawei store in a bustling shopping mall in northern Hong Kong last week, shoppers flocked to the Mate XT, the world’s first tri-fold smartphone, which can turn into...

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A woman looks at her smartphone while walking past an Apple-authorized store offering government subsidies on electronic devices, with discounts of up to 15% or 500 yuan, on March 10, 2025 in Chongqing, China.
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