Transsion wheels into Africa’s EV market with same playbook that conquered mobile phones

10 June 2025 at 05:00

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...

Silicon Valley led the quest for driverless cars. But Chinese robotaxis are catching up fast

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By: Kinling Lo

9 June 2025 at 05:00

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...

A “safety driver” sits in Baidu’s Apollo robotaxi at the Apollo Park in Beijing, China.

New apps help immigrants navigate Trump’s deportation crackdown

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By: Gabriela Martínez Córdova and Alicia Fàbregas

6 June 2025 at 05:00

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...

Migrants hold smartphones and chargers through a fence on the US-Mexico border in San Diego, California, 2023.

Who is Byju Raveendran, founder of Indian edtech app Byju’s?

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By: Rest of World

5 June 2025 at 13:55

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...

Tech giants in the Gulf are building super-apps to dominate digital life

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By: Divsha Bhat

5 June 2025 at 05:00

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...

Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories

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By: Hsiuwen Liu and Michael Beltran

4 June 2025 at 05:00

(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...

VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech

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By: Gayathri Vaidyanathan

3 June 2025 at 05:00

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...

China is gaining ground in the global race to develop AI agents

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By: Kinling Lo

2 June 2025 at 05:00

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...

In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data

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By: Gabriel Daros

30 May 2025 at 05:00

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...

In Dubai’s AI job market, your passport matters

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By: Amar Diwakar

29 May 2025 at 05:00

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...

Style Guide

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By: Joanne Lee and Jody Mak

27 May 2025 at 08:30

It is intended for use by designers, editors, developers, and partners working across our digital platforms, products, and branded materials. It outlines how to use our typography, color palette, logos,...

Taiwan’s chip plants run on migrant workers. Job brokers run their lives

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By: Michael Beltran and Hsiuwen Liu

28 May 2025 at 05:00

(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...

The math tutor and the missing $533 million

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By: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

27 May 2025 at 05:00

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...

The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley

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By: Karen Hao

26 May 2025 at 05:00

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...

Lithium is mined in the salt flats in the Atacama Desert.

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India’s richest man can’t crack e-commerce, even with Shein

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By: Kunal Purohit and Ananya Bhattacharya

23 May 2025 at 05:00

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...

India’s richest man can’t crack e-commerce, even with Shein

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By: Kunal Purohit and Ananya Bhattacharya

23 May 2025 at 05:00

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...

DJI drones are everywhere. The U.S. may still ban them

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By: Nicole Fan

22 May 2025 at 05:00

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...

The small robot company with big global ambitions

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By: Juliana Bedoya

21 May 2025 at 05:00

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...

The Kiwibot operating at Curry College in Massachusetts, US.

The world’s top EV battery maker pulled off 2025’s biggest IPO. Here’s what to know

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By: Viola Zhou

20 May 2025 at 05:00

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%...

A launch event for the CATL Bedrock chassis in Shanghai, China, Dec. 24, 2024.

AI scam factories force trafficked workers to defraud global victims

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By: Linda Yulisman

20 May 2025 at 05:00

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...

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