For Palestinians living in the West Bank, stepping onto the roads of the territory occupied by Israel is a daily journey of resilience. With movement shackled by a complex web...
NORTHERN WEST BANK, PALESTINE - 2023/03/27: Heavy traffic congestion at an Israeli military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli army forces set many roadblocks in the northern West Bank to search cars and check the identities of tourists in search of Palestinian gunmen who opened fire at Israeli soldiers. (Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
In her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Karen Hao writes about the Silicon Valley firms competing to be the first to reach artificial...
AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 5: Content moderators work at a Facebook office in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
U.S. President Donald Trump wrapped up the first major overseas trip of his second term with a four-day blitz through Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates that delivered...
As Jessy Wu prepared to launch her Beijing-based artificial intelligence startup overseas last year, she grappled with a question familiar to many Chinese tech founders: Should her company hide its...
On sweltering summer days, chef Park Jeong-eun would cook makguksu, an earthy Korean dish made with buckwheat noodles steeped in a tangy, ice-cold broth, topped with spicy gochujang paste. Truck...
Patrick McGee’s new book, Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company, is out this week, just as the U.S. and China agreed to lower tariff levels for...
Once a land of gas-guzzling super-cars, the United Arab Emirates is rapidly emerging as the Middle East’s unexpected electric vehicle leader, signaling global energy transition has reached the heartlands of...
A Tesla Inc. electric vehicle drives past residential and commercial skyscrapers in the Dubai Marina district of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. Chinese investors are gradually returning to Dubai's real estate market, joining Russian and other international buyers who have already pushed property prices in the emirate to record levels. Photographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Vietnam’s e-commerce platform Sendo, once seen as a homegrown rival to deep-pocketed foreign competitors, shut down its core marketplace on April 15. While Sendo’s closure stemmed from the dominance of...
As viral clips of robots doing flips, kung-fu, and running a marathon rack up views online, U.S. and Chinese firms are locked in a more high-stakes race: deploying humanoid robots...
An employee works on a desk near displays of humanoid robot parts, at the office of developer Ex-Robots in Dalian, Liaoning province, China June 6, 2024. REUTERS/Florence Lo
India has just made it harder for Starlink to enter the market. Around two months after Starlink announced retail partnerships with the country’s leading telecom operators, India — home to...
Meta is in trouble in Nigeria. Local authorities have fined Meta $290 million for regulatory breaches, prompting the social media giant to threaten pulling Facebook and Instagram from the country....
This article is adapted from Rest of World’s recent feature: Inside the spectacular rise and crash of India’s largest EV company Bhavish Aggarwal is the CEO of Ola Electric, India’s...
Argentine President Javier Milei has an ambitious plan to transform Argentina into a global hub for nuclear energy. Nuclear energy, in turn, is the key to his goal of making...
Chinese cloud companies are quietly gaining momentum in the battle with their U.S. counterparts for the Middle East’s digital infrastructure. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle spent years building regional tech...
A 3-year-old homegrown startup has upended India’s ride-hailing sector. Namma Yatri, launched in 2022 as an auto-rickshaw aggregator, has changed how drivers earn from ride-hailing platforms. The app, developed in...
The hum of midday traffic in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Brazil, was a familiar soundtrack to Guilherme’s hustle. Fourteen, slight, and armed with a plastic box of colorful candies —...
One evening last September, Pitambar Panda, a 24-year-old product designer in the Indian city of Pune, mounted his pearly white electric Ola scooter. He accelerated noiselessly through the city’s busy...
Washington’s latest export restrictions on Nvidia’s H20 chips are likely to accelerate China’s shift toward domestic alternatives, as homegrown firms strive to close the gap with global rivals. Years of...
China’s DeepSeek moment has triggered unease for the Indian government and tech industry. Earlier this month, India’s commerce minister, Piyush Goyal, rebuked the country’s entrepreneurs for their lack of innovation....
When Josélia de Brito, a former sugarcane worker from a remote town in northeast Brazil, filed for her retirement benefits through the mandated government app, she expected her claim would...
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