As powerful monsoon winds buffeted the Taiwan Strait, British captain Richard Boghurst braced himself for a demanding shift laying undersea power cables to carry wind energy to Taiwan’s semiconductor factories. ...
One week before her thesis deadline, Xiaobing, a senior majoring in German literature, received a notice: Her university in northeast China would require the work of all fourth-year students to...
In November 2023, the self-driving car company Cruise admitted that its “driverless” robotaxis were monitored and controlled (as needed) by remote workers. Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt took to Hacker News,...
The idea of a space-based internet is almost as old as the internet itself. In 1993, the Hughes Aircraft Company filed for a license with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission...
On Thursday, Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled that digital platforms are responsible for users’ content — a major shift in a country where millions rely on apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, and...
Until recently, Tata Motors had a dream run in India’s electric-vehicle market. The first homegrown automaker to successfully launch an EV in the country, it quickly gained traction with vehicles...
A recent data breach of about 16 billion login credentials is said to have put users of Facebook, Instagram, Google, and Apple at risk of fraud and identity theft. The...
Hasan Hüseyin Yavuz sat in an unpaved parking lot among protest posters, trying to draw attention to the human toll of trending TikToks. Across the street from his former employer...
The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar pledged $2 trillion of deals during U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East tour last month, sparking debate over whether massive spending can buy tech...
President Donald Trump shakes hands with President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates after they announced that the two nations would work together to establish the largest artificial intelligence data center outside of the United States in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, May 15, 2025. At every step of President Trump's whirlwind tour, he has been treated with the kind of honor and respect he has long desired. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
Yareth Zuñiga’s boutique in Ciudad Victoria, in northern Mexico, is usually filled with items from Chinese e-commerce sites Shein and Alibaba. In recent months, her stock has dwindled as new...
A courier firm that conquered Southeast Asia’s logistics industry and scaled globally riding the Chinese e-commerce wave is now grappling with new pressures. Broken roads, chaotic traffic, nameless alleys, and...
NANJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 26: Employees sort express parcels at automated sorting lines in a distribution center of J&T Express ahead of China's Double 11 Shopping Festival on October 26, 2024 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by Fang Dongxu/VCG via Getty Images)
In May, BYD’s largest car carrier arrived in Brazil with 7,300 new electric vehicles. The consignment, coupled with two other large shipments a few days later, represented the company’s biggest...
The world's largest car carrier, BYD ''Shenzhen'', loads over 7,000 BYD new energy commercial vehicles at Haitong Terminal in Taicang Port Area, Suzhou Port, and sets sail for Brazil in Taicang City, Jiangsu Province, China, on April 27, 2025. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
India is betting on Chinese technology to keep its electric-vehicle transition on track. At a time when the U.S. is erecting trade barriers to keep Chinese EV giants at bay,...
On a sweltering June day, an artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robot built by Chinese firm Ubtech entertained a crowd of hundreds waiting to enter the China pavilion at the Osaka World...
Around midnight at Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor offices outside Seoul, Han Ki-bak, a chip design engineer, saw a colleague collapse after working months of grueling late nights. Stunned, Han couldn’t move. ...
It is the world’s most downloaded ride-hailing app after Uber, and inDrive’s founder and chief executive Arsen Tomsky wants to go bigger. Since its founding in Yakutsk in Siberia more...
Since the launch of DeepSeek earlier this year, everyone from talk show hosts to heads of state has had a point of view on the so-called artificial intelligence race between...
The Amazonian municipality of Caracaraí has 22,000 inhabitants and an overworked pharmacist named Samuel Andrade. Andrade arrives at work at 8 a.m. to handle hundreds of prescriptions from free government...
After conquering Africa’s phones, Transsion wants to own its roads. The Chinese company, which controls about half of Africa’s smartphone market, entered the continent’s electric vehicle race by introducing its...
Chinese and American companies have long led the costly endeavor of developing autonomous ride-hailing services. Now, robotaxi firms are taking the competition global. The Alphabet-owned Waymo, which launched the world’s...
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