Courts in Buenos Aires are using ChatGPT to draft rulings

22 November 2024 at 06:00

In May, the Public Prosecution Service of the City of Buenos Aires began using generative AI to predict rulings for some public employment cases related to salary demands. Since then,...

The Philippine army is recruiting young tech civilians to fight cyber attacks

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By: Julia Ornedo

21 November 2024 at 06:00

Earlier this year, the Philippine Army put out an unusual call on Facebook, inviting civilian hackers to join its cybersecurity unit. “We have a greater enemy that wants to devour...

Recruits of the Philippine Army’s Cyber Battalion are seen working on computers at their headquarters on Monday, November 18, 2024, in Manila, Philippines.

New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling

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By: Khadija Alam and Russell Brandom

20 November 2024 at 06:00

When Facebook hit 1 billion users in 2012, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that when it comes to getting another billion users, “The big thing is obviously going to be mobile.”...

Chinese startups supported by Microsoft and Google incubator programs worked with police

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By: Joanna Chiu

19 November 2024 at 06:00

Silicon Valley tech giants, including Microsoft and Google, have supported tech companies that provide censorship and policing technologies in China, according to publicly available corporate and promotional materials reviewed by...

Mexico’s women gig workers are making a dangerous job safer

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By: Rest of World

19 November 2024 at 06:00

In Mexico City, growing numbers of women earn their living as gig workers. As women bear the burden of care work, apps like Uber, Didi, and Rappi offer them flexible...

The U.S. Chinese immigrants running Temu shipping centers from their homes

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By: Viola Zhou

15 November 2024 at 06:00

In Eason Lin’s cramped one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, the living room is a maze of hundreds of boxes. All of the packages will soon ship out to Americans...

Door-to-door saleswomen are fueling Shein’s rise in Mexico

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By: Daniela Dib

14 November 2024 at 06:00

Since 2022, Mariana Garfias Torres, a 30-year-old nutritionist, has been making an additional income by selling housewares from Betterware, a Mexican catalog company. She regularly circulates Betterware’s digital catalog to...

Grab built its own map in Southeast Asia, and is now going after Google

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By: Michelle Anindya

13 November 2024 at 06:00

The alleys in South Jakarta are winding and narrow, sometimes just one meter wide, barely enough to fit a motorbike. A delivery rider has to squeeze past laundry racks and...

Phony X accounts are meddling in Ghana’s election

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By: Caroline Haskins

12 November 2024 at 06:00

As Ghana approaches its presidential election on December 7, researchers have uncovered a network of 171 bot accounts on X that use ChatGPT to write posts favorable to the incumbent...

Amazon and Walmart couldn’t kill India’s mom-and-pop stores. But rapid delivery might

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya and Adnan Bhat

12 November 2024 at 06:00

Mahadev Waghji Patel ran Choice Mart for nine years in an affluent neighborhood of Mumbai. His local customers relied on the store for their monthly groceries, and continued to come...

Argentina’s banks accuse MercadoLibre of monopolizing the market

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By: David Feliba

7 November 2024 at 06:00

In a remote stretch of Argentina’s Patagonia, Sheriff Miguel Hernández isn’t just keeping the peace. He has also become the town’s online shopping expert. The sheriff on horseback purchases items...

Malaysia’s new data centers create thousands of jobs — and worries about power and water shortages

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By: Ushar Daniele and Khadija Alam

6 November 2024 at 06:00

When Granill Ding Simon moved to the Malaysian state of Johor six years ago, the mechanical engineer traded city life for what he thought would be a slower pace among...

This Indian state wants to be a tech hub. But the government keeps shutting down the internet

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By: Sanghamitra Kar P

4 November 2024 at 06:00

On May 2, 2023, Roshni Kumar Yambem was finishing a long day at Globizs, his IT services startup. It had not been easy for Yambem to attract an international clientele...

No Tesla dealership? No problem. Uruguayans import the EVs from China

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By: Lucía Cholakian Herrera

31 October 2024 at 05:00

The Tesla Model 3 parked at AutoImport, a car dealership in the seaside port of Punta del Este, Uruguay, appeared flawless, except for one detail: The driver’s touch screen was...

SHANGHAI, CHINA - MARCH 14: Tesla's new Model 3 sedans wait to be shipped aboard at Shanghai Haitong International Automotive Terminal on March 14, 2024 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

Traditional sellers in Vietnam still aren’t sold on e-commerce

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By: Lam Le

30 October 2024 at 05:00

In Hanoi’s historic Dong Xuan Market, stalls are filled with clothes, shoes and souvenirs. Sellers sit around chatting, or play on their phones as an occasional tourist wanders about, a...

Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working

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By: Nipun Prabhakar

28 October 2024 at 05:00

When Shakil Khatri first heard about Amazon Karigar in 2018, he thought it might be what he had been looking for. Khatri, a sixth-generation artisan, is one of the few...

Maji Khan Mutwa showing his Instagram profile with 29.8k followers. He has to keep the phone at this angle to get enough signals from the mobile network so he can open his account.

Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned

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By: Daniela Dib

24 October 2024 at 05:00

On September 9, Delilah Barajas, who reviews TV shows and horror movies on TikTok, ditched her usual content to talk about a real-life suspenseful scenario: the showdown between cartel members...

Myanmar residents struggle to overcome severe internet blackouts with Starlink

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By: Nu Nu Lusan

23 October 2024 at 05:00

In Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, Seng had struggled with internet shutdowns and low bandwidth since the military coup of 2021. Then came the blocks on social media platforms including Facebook....

India’s electric cab companies can’t find enough cars to put on the road

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By: Ananya Bhattacharya

22 October 2024 at 05:00

Rahul Mathur has sworn by BluSmart since its early days. The electric-taxi rideshare company was his preferred choice for the daily commute as a startup founder in Delhi two years...

A local ride-hailing service can’t beat Uber and Bolt, so its drivers are beating up their rivals

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By: Ray Mwareya

21 October 2024 at 05:00

In July, Progress, a used-clothes trader, disembarked from his bus at Pretoria’s main station. The night was dark, and he knew that violent assault was a serious risk in the...

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