Peter Mutei, a ride-hailing driver in Nairobi, gets his gigs through Uber and Little, a Kenyan ride-hailing platform. Uber gives him more business overall, but he still prefers Little, as...
A picture taken on February 4, 2016 shows Kenyan taxi parked in a street of Nairobi, waiting for clients, on February 4, 2016.
In Kenya, Uber has made a big splash on the market in 2015, to the chagrin of taxi drivers accused of retaliating in recent days by multiplying acts of vandalism and assaults against their competitors.
ChatGPT impressed millions of internet users when it was first launched in December 2022. To Filipino Elmer Peramo, though, it felt familiar. After typing in some prompts and seeing the...
The social media feed of Indonesian singer and content creator Vicky Shu generally features her clothes, makeup, and family. But when she decided to run for the regional elections in...
The day mass transit startup Swvl announced its decision to downsize operations in Pakistan in June 2022, its country general manager Maha Shahzad fully grasped the dire circumstances that female...
When Alois Kachere decided to order a Starlink kit after the company’s launch in Zimbabwe in September, he hoped to be the first person in his neighborhood to get the...
Malaysian digital artist Kitty Misa, like many other creators in the country, had long used the ArtStation site to showcase her work. Since the site was blocked by the government...
Last fall, school administrators at the University of Yucatán asked Abraham Slim, a 23-year-old medical student, to fill out a survey on his smartphone. The questions on the survey did...
Fidaa Maksour, a dispatcher with the White Helmets, a volunteer organization that operates largely in the war-torn northwestern region of Syria, was on duty in the early morning hours of...
It’s a warm September afternoon in Lagos and filming of the Nollywood slapstick comedy Osas and Nosa is delayed for the day. The scene being shot takes place in the...
Shivika Sabharwal’s nerves kicked in the second she spotted the size of the crowd. It was mid-September, and Sabharwal was standing center stage inside a massive event space at Mumbai’s...
Lesser-known tech companies were rewarded by changing headwinds outside the West this year. India’s homegrown EV industry, a Chinese video game that became a soft power success, and a U.S.-based...
Fed up with having to frequently travel several kilometers to charge his electric car, taxi driver Lam Tan Tai installed three charging ports at his homes in Trang Bom in...
When Guadalupe González Rodríguez saw a Facebook post offering people artificial intelligence-generated animated images of their dead relatives, she was instantly interested. “I wanted to give my husband a video...
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Manvi Singh, a marketing executive in her early 20s, commutes over 20 kilometers to her office on the outskirts of Delhi every day. Until six months ago, this commute would...
In 2024, Rest of World covered some of the biggest shifts in the tech industry that have changed lives around the world: the rise of AI, Chinese companies expanding overseas,...
In the 1970s, China became the world’s factory when it started allowing international manufacturers to set up shop and produce goods cheaply within its borders. Initially, Chinese factories made low-end...
In October, a popular YouTuber tweeted out a document issued by the Election Commission of India that had been scanned using CamScanner, a Chinese document-scanning app. CamScanner has been banned...
“Thank you for calling. … You’re speaking with Renzo. This call may be recorded for — uhm — this call may be re—” Renzo Bahala, a customer service agent for...
Singaporean Sharon Ong’s toddler son, like most kids his age, is fascinated by all modes of transportation. On a recent visit to the resort island of Sentosa, mother and son...
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