On a weekday morning in May, the Hack Latino app issued an alert to its users: There were five Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrol vehicles on a certain avenue in...
This article is adapted from Rest of World’s recent feature: The math tutor and the missing $533 million Named for its founder, Byju Raveendran, the learning app Byju’s (sometimes stylized...
The race for super-apps is intensifying in the Middle East. Unlike Western markets, where Google, Apple, and Meta maintain separate app ecosystems with strict integration limits, in countries like the...
(This is the second of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Read the first story here.) The chip worker set off from a small coastal town...
Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers, increasingly using artificial intelligence, are getting entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org, a labor rights...
Chinese companies are gaining ground in the global race to develop the next generation of artificial intelligence — not just chatbots, but autonomous agents designed to handle complex tasks with...
Last month, Brazil announced it is rolling out a data ownership pilot that will allow its citizens to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint — the first such...
Ameca, a humanoid robot, smiled and blinked at the crowd at Dubai AI Week 2025, a celebration of all things artificial intelligence. Landmark announcements marked the event, including a $545...
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(This is the first of a two-part series on migrant workers in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Read the second story here.) A group of migrant tech workers from the Philippines sat...
One morning in January, Byju Raveendran sat in the back seat of his shiny black Cadillac as it sped through Dubai. Just three years prior, the schoolteachers’ son had appeared...
When Sonia Ramos was a child, she witnessed an accident that would shape the rest of her life. She was born into a mining family in Chile. Her father worked...
Online retail continues to elude India’s richest man. The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail in partnership with the Chinese fast-fashion giant, has struggled to gain traction...
Online retail continues to elude India’s richest man. The Shein India app, launched by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail in partnership with the Chinese fast-fashion giant, has struggled to gain traction...
Drones from Chinese giant DJI are deeply embedded in American life. With a potential ban looming, the company has until the end of the year to convince U.S. lawmakers it...
Earlier this year, a boxy, knee-high robot rolled past a handful of students at the University of California, Berkeley, campus, loaded with plush toy doughnuts and Yeti mugs. Moving at...
China’s CATL, the world’s biggest electric battery maker, starts trading in Hong Kong this week, after a $4.6 billion IPO, the biggest so far this year. CATL has about 38%...
Young Indonesians are increasingly falling for fraudulent job ads on Telegram, Facebook, and other social media and getting trafficked to scam farms in Southeast Asia, former scammers and cybersecurity experts...
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)
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