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A look at Shanghai municipal government-backed SpaceSail, a satellite internet company that has launched ~90 satellites so far and plans to have 15,000 by 2030 (Lam Le/Rest of World)

2025-04-01 04:10:01                restofworld.org

Lam Le / Rest of World: A look at Shanghai municipal government-backed SpaceSail, a satellite internet company that has launched ~90 satellites so far and plans to have 15,000 by 2030  —  The Shanghai satellite company is launching deals in countries where Starlink, X or Tesla are creating friction.

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Q&A with Careem CEO Mudassir Sheikha on the MENA ride-hailing giant becoming a super app, the spinout of its non-ride-hailing services from Uber, AI, and more (Anup Kaphle/Rest of World)

2025-03-26 04:25:01                restofworld.org

Anup Kaphle / Rest of World: Q&A with Careem CEO Mudassir Sheikha on the MENA ride-hailing giant becoming a super app, the spinout of its non-ride-hailing services from Uber, AI, and more  —  • DUBAI, THE UAE  —  Mudassir Sheikha likes to tell the story of Careem's growth in chapters.

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USCIS data shows Amazon got the most H-1B visas each year from 2020 to 2024; Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple ranked in the top 10 in 2024 (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)

2025-03-26 03:20:24                restofworld.org

Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: USCIS data shows Amazon got the most H-1B visas each year from 2020 to 2024; Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple ranked in the top 10 in 2024  —  U.S. tech firms — Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple — were the top 10 employers of H-1B recipients in 2024.

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Former staff, investors, and industry experts reflect on the demise of Dunzo, the Indian online delivery pioneer undone by mismanagement, competition, and more (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)

2025-03-23 05:05:02                restofworld.org

Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: Former staff, investors, and industry experts reflect on the demise of Dunzo, the Indian online delivery pioneer undone by mismanagement, competition, and more  —  Dunzo was a trailblazer in India's online delivery sector, but things went awry when it shifted from its core strength.

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A look at the adoption of DeepSeek across China, as Chinese automakers, smartphone sellers, and others rush to build services on top of the homegrown AI model (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)

2025-03-15 08:45:01                restofworld.org

Kinling Lo / Rest of World: A look at the adoption of DeepSeek across China, as Chinese automakers, smartphone sellers, and others rush to build services on top of the homegrown AI model  —  Chinese companies, as a signal of patriotism, are racing to build services on top of the homegrown AI model that has taken the world by storm since January.

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GSMA Intelligence: ~61 countries, including the US and China, plan to shut down their 2G networks, raising digital exclusion concerns, mainly affecting the poor (Lam Le/Rest of World)

2025-03-08 00:00:13                restofworld.org

Lam Le / Rest of World: GSMA Intelligence: ~61 countries, including the US and China, plan to shut down their 2G networks, raising digital exclusion concerns, mainly affecting the poor  —  Global leap to 4G and 5G would cut off phone access for millions of vulnerable people.  —  Last November, Nguyen Thi Que's …

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An analysis by the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton of 8,000+ messages finds messages advertising guns across 234 publicly accessible WhatsApp groups in India (Yashraj Sharma/Rest of World)

2025-03-05 02:10:00                restofworld.org

Yashraj Sharma / Rest of World: An analysis by the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton of 8,000+ messages finds messages advertising guns across 234 publicly accessible WhatsApp groups in India  —  An analysis of more than 8,000 messages by Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University finds the Meta-owned platform is a thriving illegal firearms marketplace.

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Mastercard withdrew its commitment to invest $100M in 54 Collective, a top VC firm in Africa, where startup funding fell from $4.6B in 2022 to $2.2B in 2024 (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)

2025-03-02 01:05:01                restofworld.org

Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: Mastercard withdrew its commitment to invest $100M in 54 Collective, a top VC firm in Africa, where startup funding fell from $4.6B in 2022 to $2.2B in 2024  —  The withdrawal leaves a gap in support for early-stage startups, as Africa's tech funding has been declining since 2022.

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China's first-of-its-kind policy letting companies mark data as an asset on balance sheets sees slow adoption, as compliance hurdles keep many on the sidelines (Lizzi C. Lee/Rest of World)

2025-02-27 04:20:02                restofworld.org

Lizzi C. Lee / Rest of World: China's first-of-its-kind policy letting companies mark data as an asset on balance sheets sees slow adoption, as compliance hurdles keep many on the sidelines  —  A first-of-its-kind policy allows Chinese firms to treat data as an asset, but compliance hurdles are keeping many companies on the sidelines.

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Q&A with Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer and director of AI at Saudi Arabia's KAUST, on the kingdom's AI ambitions, DeepSeek, AGI, and more (Anup Kaphle/Rest of World)

2025-02-26 05:05:01                restofworld.org

Anup Kaphle / Rest of World: Q&A with Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer and director of AI at Saudi Arabia's KAUST, on the kingdom's AI ambitions, DeepSeek, AGI, and more  —  With a long track record of groundbreaking research, outspoken opinions, and grand visions, Jürgen Schmidhuber …

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Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of "practical training" (Hsiuwen Liu/Rest of World)

2025-02-13 05:05:01                restofworld.org

Hsiuwen Liu / Rest of World: Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of “practical training”  —  Student-interns are paid for low-skill factory tasks and spend little time in the classroom.

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DeepSeek recruiting recent graduates from China's top universities reflects a growing trend among the country's top AI talent to pursue opportunities at home (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

2025-02-08 21:10:00                restofworld.org

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: DeepSeek recruiting recent graduates from China's top universities reflects a growing trend among the country's top AI talent to pursue opportunities at home  —  Young Chinese engineers focus on homegrown innovation, drawn by fewer visa hurdles and the chance to build a future on their own terms.

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A look at the daunting task for Google and others of mapping roads and maintaining accurate maps in India, amid growing reports of misdirections in the country (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)

2025-02-08 06:55:01                restofworld.org

Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: A look at the daunting task for Google and others of mapping roads and maintaining accurate maps in India, amid growing reports of misdirections in the country  —  Maintaining accurate maps is a daunting task in a country where road names and addresses are not standardized.

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Major Chinese social media apps have mastered the "shoppertainment" experience, blending social media with shopping, that Western competitors struggle to match (Rest of World)

2025-01-26 07:05:00                restofworld.org

Rest of World: Major Chinese social media apps have mastered the “shoppertainment” experience, blending social media with shopping, that Western competitors struggle to match  —  Addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment.  —  In the days leading …

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Eager to attract investments, politicians in Brazil, India, and other non-Western nations with nascent AI regulations have warmly welcomed major AI companies (Rest of World)

2025-01-22 04:24:08                restofworld.org

Rest of World: Eager to attract investments, politicians in Brazil, India, and other non-Western nations with nascent AI regulations have warmly welcomed major AI companies  —  Big AI companies have come out hard against comprehensive regulatory efforts in the West — but are receiving a warm welcome from leaders in many other countries.

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Analysis: Chinese AI researchers produced ~46K collaborative papers with their US counterparts over the past decade, followed by ~19K with researchers in the UK (Khadija Alam/Rest of World)

2025-01-20 04:10:25                restofworld.org

Khadija Alam / Rest of World: Analysis: Chinese AI researchers produced ~46K collaborative papers with their US counterparts over the past decade, followed by ~19K with researchers in the UK  —  Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research.

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Authorities in Singapore, which has a dire shortage of nurses, see the potential in AI tools to assist in preventive illness care, especially for the elderly (Reeta Raman/Rest of World)

2025-01-15 08:10:00                restofworld.org

Reeta Raman / Rest of World: Authorities in Singapore, which has a dire shortage of nurses, see the potential in AI tools to assist in preventive illness care, especially for the elderly  —  The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it's using AI for preventive care.  —  • SINGAPORE

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Starlink has disrupted Kenya's existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds (Rest of World)

2025-01-13 02:00:31                restofworld.org

Rest of World: Starlink has disrupted Kenya's existing ISP industry since its launch in July 2023, forcing legacy providers to lower prices and increase internet speeds  —  In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.  —  Starlink, launched in 2019 by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has become the leading satellite internet provider in the world.

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Sources: Foxconn stops sending Chinese employees to iPhone factories in India and recalls already stationed staff, while China stalls equipment shipments (Rest of World)

2025-01-10 23:55:14                restofworld.org

Rest of World: Sources: Foxconn stops sending Chinese employees to iPhone factories in India and recalls already stationed staff, while China stalls equipment shipments  —  In addition, equipment shipments are delayed, potentially disrupting next-generation iPhone production in India.

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Experts say national security and immigration policies could deprive US companies of AI talent from China, which had 47% of the top AI researchers in 2022 (Yvonne Lau/Rest of World)

2024-12-18 05:25:01                restofworld.org

Yvonne Lau / Rest of World: Experts say national security and immigration policies could deprive US companies of AI talent from China, which had 47% of the top AI researchers in 2022  —  The West may lose out in the talent race amid U.S. national security and immigration hurdles  — The U.S. and China …

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The White Helmets, UNHCR, UNRWA, and other volunteer organizations describe how apps like WhatsApp have transformed communication in conflict and disaster zones (John Beck/Rest of World)

2024-12-15 04:20:08                restofworld.org

John Beck / Rest of World: The White Helmets, UNHCR, UNRWA, and other volunteer organizations describe how apps like WhatsApp have transformed communication in conflict and disaster zones  —  Meta's messaging app has transformed communication in conflict and crisis areas.  —  Fidaa Maksour, a dispatcher with the White Helmets …

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Mexico's Yucatán state says AI-powered app MeMind contributed to a 9% drop in suicides over the past two years by connecting 10,000 at-risk people to treatment (Lillian Perlmutter/Rest of World)

2024-12-14 19:55:01                restofworld.org

Lillian Perlmutter / Rest of World: Mexico's Yucatán state says AI-powered app MeMind contributed to a 9% drop in suicides over the past two years by connecting 10,000 at-risk people to treatment  —  MeMind has connected 10,000 at-risk people with mental health treatment, contributing to a 9% drop in suicides.

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How niche communities globally are repurposing WhatsApp, including broadcasting news and shows, matchmaking, organizing prayers, and finding blood donors (Sonia Faleiro/Rest of World)

2024-12-11 03:55:00                restofworld.org

Sonia Faleiro / Rest of World: How niche communities globally are repurposing WhatsApp, including broadcasting news and shows, matchmaking, organizing prayers, and finding blood donors  —  The world's most popular messaging platform is synonymous with the internet for millions of people.  —  • LAGOS, NIGERIA

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How WhatsApp evolved from a messaging app into a business messaging growth platform, aggressively luring big businesses to its suite of paid messaging products (Issie Lapowsky/Rest of World)

2024-12-09 20:20:01                restofworld.org

Issie Lapowsky / Rest of World: How WhatsApp evolved from a messaging app into a business messaging growth platform, aggressively luring big businesses to its suite of paid messaging products  —  WhatsApp is already the world's most widely used messaging app.  Meta wants it to be a lot more.  —  • PHILADELPHIA, UNITED STATES

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A look at Uber Shuttle, the shared bus service that has rolled out in over 20 cities and completed ~30M trips globally, as Uber awaits approval in Bengaluru (Anisha Sircar/Rest of World)

2024-12-07 06:40:01                restofworld.org

Anisha Sircar / Rest of World: A look at Uber Shuttle, the shared bus service that has rolled out in over 20 cities and completed ~30M trips globally, as Uber awaits approval in Bengaluru  —  Uber Shuttle, a shared bus ride service, is available in two Indian cities.  The company plans to launch in three more cities soon.

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Call center workers in the Philippines, where an estimated 86% of white-collar workers already use AI, say generative AI tools have made work more demanding (Michael Beltran/Rest of World)

2024-11-28 04:35:04                restofworld.org

Michael Beltran / Rest of World: Call center workers in the Philippines, where an estimated 86% of white-collar workers already use AI, say generative AI tools have made work more demanding  —  BPO workers say AI tools are monitoring their calls, assisting them with customers, and scoring their performance.  —  • MANILA, PHILIPPINES

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Singapore, which has clear AV guidelines, is deploying self-driving buses and more as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently (Sandy Ong/Rest of World)

2024-11-27 05:30:00                restofworld.org

Sandy Ong / Rest of World: Singapore, which has clear AV guidelines, is deploying self-driving buses and more as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently  —  The tiny country has embraced autonomous vehicles as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its scarce land more efficiently.

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Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)

2024-11-17 07:05:22                restofworld.org

Daniela Dib / Rest of World: Research center Bitácora Social estimates that six out of 10 catalog sellers in Mexico now sell products from online platforms, including Shein and Temu  —  A large community of catalog saleswomen are selling items from the Chinese platform.  —  • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

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How Grab built GrabMaps by using data from drivers, users, and merchants in 500+ Southeast Asian cities, adding 800,000+ km of missing roads to OpenStreetMap (Michelle Anindya/Rest of World)

2024-11-14 04:35:10                restofworld.org

Michelle Anindya / Rest of World: How Grab built GrabMaps by using data from drivers, users, and merchants in 500+ Southeast Asian cities, adding 800,000+ km of missing roads to OpenStreetMap  —  The super-app uses its own drivers and cameras to create hyperlocal maps in eight countries.  —  • JAKARTA, INDONESIA

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Indian mom-and-pop "kirana" stores are struggling to compete with quick commerce on discounts and delivery; ~200K kirana stores have closed in the past year (Rest of World)

2024-11-14 04:10:01                restofworld.org

Rest of World: Indian mom-and-pop “kirana” stores are struggling to compete with quick commerce on discounts and delivery; ~200K kirana stores have closed in the past year  —  Services like Blinkit and Zepto are estimated to put more than 25% of India's neighborhood kirana stores out of business by 2030.

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Malaysia's Johor state has drawn ~50 data center projects in the last three years, creating 40,000 jobs but raising concerns about power and water shortages (Rest of World)

2024-11-07 02:30:00                restofworld.org

Rest of World: Malaysia's Johor state has drawn ~50 data center projects in the last three years, creating 40,000 jobs but raising concerns about power and water shortages  —  Data centers for companies like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia are transforming Johor state, with locals bracing for higher real estate costs and resource shortages.

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Support groups in the Philippines blame GCash, the country's most popular payment app with 90M+ active users, for a rise in gambling addiction in the country (Patrick Kho/Rest of World)

2024-10-17 03:55:01                restofworld.org

Patrick Kho / Rest of World: Support groups in the Philippines blame GCash, the country's most popular payment app with 90M+ active users, for a rise in gambling addiction in the country  —  The GCash app is ubiquitous in the Philippines, and is being blamed for rising gambling addiction in the country, particularly among women.

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Chinese state media has embraced the success of Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese AAA game that has sold 20M+ copies globally, hailing it as a soft power export (Lizzi C. Lee/Rest of World)

2024-09-28 06:35:10                restofworld.org

Lizzi C. Lee / Rest of World: Chinese state media has embraced the success of Black Myth: Wukong, a Chinese AAA game that has sold 20M+ copies globally, hailing it as a soft power export  —  China is changing its long-critical stance thanks to the smash hit, according to Chinese game developers and industry analysts.

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A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023 (Joanna Chiu/Rest of World)

2024-09-21 06:35:01                restofworld.org

Joanna Chiu / Rest of World: A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023  —  Rest of World received exclusive access to a platform that tracks patterns and timing of Chinese online censorship.

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Q&A with Alibaba.com president Kuo Zhang on the enduring importance of the US market, navigating geopolitical tensions, competing with Shein and Temu, and more (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

2024-09-13 02:15:01                restofworld.org

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Q&A with Alibaba.com president Kuo Zhang on the enduring importance of the US market, navigating geopolitical tensions, competing with Shein and Temu, and more  —  • LAS VEGAS, UNITED STATES  —  E-commerce giant Alibabai .com is setting its sights on America's mom-and-pop businesses.

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Startups say Pakistan's new China-like firewall is making it harder for them to raise funds, amid complaints about censorship and internet speeds falling by 40% (Kunwar Khuldune Shahid/Rest of World)

2024-09-09 22:35:01                restofworld.org

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid / Rest of World: Startups say Pakistan's new China-like firewall is making it harder for them to raise funds, amid complaints about censorship and internet speeds falling by 40%  —  Internet speeds in the country have dropped by up to 40% due to the government's efforts to monitor internet traffic, said service providers.

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As Chinese EV manufacturers consolidate and close, EV owners say they're losing access to smartphone app updates and features that rely on cloud services (Tianyu Fang/Rest of World)

2024-08-29 04:50:01                restofworld.org

Tianyu Fang / Rest of World: As Chinese EV manufacturers consolidate and close, EV owners say they're losing access to smartphone app updates and features that rely on cloud services  —  As Chinese EV makers close, drivers of “smartphones on wheels” say software updates and maintenance are in jeopardy.

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A look at the consequences of Spotify's disinvestment in podcasts in Latin America, where one survey found 90% of podcast listeners used Spotify (Stan Alcorn/Rest of World)

2024-08-10 19:00:43                restofworld.org

Stan Alcorn / Rest of World: A look at the consequences of Spotify's disinvestment in podcasts in Latin America, where one survey found 90% of podcast listeners used Spotify  —  In Latin America, “podcast” and “Spotify” became synonymous; now the audio industry is reckoning with the company's retreat.  —  • BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA

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Citizen Lab: Microsoft censors its Bing translation service more extensively in China than its competitors like Baidu Translate and Tencent Machine Translation (Joanna Chiu/Rest of World)

2024-06-27 07:00:29                restofworld.org

Joanna Chiu / Rest of World: Citizen Lab: Microsoft censors its Bing translation service more extensively in China than its competitors like Baidu Translate and Tencent Machine Translation  —  New Citizen Lab study comes as U.S. lawmakers scrutinize Microsoft's willingness to comply with demands from Beijing.

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Sources detail struggles at Koo, an Indian rival to X, including laying off ~80% of its workforce in recent months and being unable to raise more funds (Varsha Bansal/Rest of World)

2024-06-12 05:05:06                restofworld.org

Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: Sources detail struggles at Koo, an Indian rival to X, including laying off ~80% of its workforce in recent months and being unable to raise more funds  —  The microblogging platform — India's first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.

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How Uber-owned Careem went from Pakistan's ride-hailing leader to a distant third player after deprioritizing the country due to its unstable economy (Zuha Siddiqui/Rest of World)

2024-06-09 06:05:00                restofworld.org

Zuha Siddiqui / Rest of World: How Uber-owned Careem went from Pakistan's ride-hailing leader to a distant third player after deprioritizing the country due to its unstable economy  —  After falling from dominance, Careem is experimenting — from corporate rides to price bidding — to maintain its presence in Pakistan.

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A look at activist groups' efforts to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from building more data centers in Chile, amid a drought expected to last until 2040 (Rest of World)

2024-06-01 21:25:00                restofworld.org

Rest of World: A look at activist groups' efforts to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from building more data centers in Chile, amid a drought expected to last until 2040  —  Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.

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How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

2024-05-25 15:20:05                restofworld.org

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: How Threads became a gathering space for young progressives in Taiwan, who now use the app to organize protests against pro-China opposition parties  —  Despite Meta's promise to crack down on political content in the app, Taiwanese activists are using it to organize.

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A test of 11 WhatsApp-based fact-checking "tip lines" during elections in India finds long delays and inconsistencies in responses (Rest of World)

2024-05-25 09:45:01                restofworld.org

Rest of World: A test of 11 WhatsApp-based fact-checking “tip lines” during elections in India finds long delays and inconsistencies in responses  —  Rest of World tested 11 leading WhatsApp-based chatbots that promise to help Indian voters identify misinformation.

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As India's elections run from April 19 to June 1, a look at the BJP's vast WhatsApp operations, including using the app to campaign free from public scrutiny (Srishti Jaswal/Rest of World)

2024-05-15 08:00:40                restofworld.org

Srishti Jaswal / Rest of World: As India's elections run from April 19 to June 1, a look at the BJP's vast WhatsApp operations, including using the app to campaign free from public scrutiny  —  An analysis of thousands of messages reveals how India's ruling party uses the app to campaign free from public scrutiny.  —  • MANDI, INDIA

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Some Singaporean writers resist the government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and other issues (Nicholas Yong/Rest of World)

2024-05-09 02:30:14                restofworld.org

Nicholas Yong / Rest of World: Some Singaporean writers resist the government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and other issues  —  Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.

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A look at Disney+ Hotstar's and JioCinema's strategy to beat Netflix and Prime Video in India, including by focusing on sports content and affordable pricing (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)

2024-03-27 03:55:00                restofworld.org

Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: A look at Disney+ Hotstar's and JioCinema's strategy to beat Netflix and Prime Video in India, including by focusing on sports content and affordable pricing  —  Mukesh Ambani's Reliance and The Walt Disney Company have joined forces creating a hard-to-beat streaming entity in the country.

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Filmmakers, critics, and users detail why Prime Video failed in Africa; Amazon laid off staff and scaled back operations on the continent in January 2024 (Jesusegun Alagbe/Rest of World)

2024-03-23 18:20:01                restofworld.org

Jesusegun Alagbe / Rest of World: Filmmakers, critics, and users detail why Prime Video failed in Africa; Amazon laid off staff and scaled back operations on the continent in January 2024  —  Filmmakers, critics, and users blame the platform's struggle in Africa on poor user experience, a lack of local content, and mediocre publicity.

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A look at Visa's and Mastercard's efforts to stay relevant in Africa, including by funding local startups, as users switch to digital wallets and QR codes (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)

2024-03-14 03:55:13                restofworld.org

Damilare Dosunmu / Rest of World: A look at Visa's and Mastercard's efforts to stay relevant in Africa, including by funding local startups, as users switch to digital wallets and QR codes  —  From a startup accelerator to funding startups and even investing in telecom companies, the two U.S. giants are steadily increasing their presence on the continent.

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Livestreaming on Douyin and Kuaishou is helping attract out-of-town property buyers to Xishuangbanna in China's Yunnan province, despite a nationwide downturn (Caiwei Chen/Rest of World)

2024-03-13 04:15:16                restofworld.org

Caiwei Chen / Rest of World: Livestreaming on Douyin and Kuaishou is helping attract out-of-town property buyers to Xishuangbanna in China's Yunnan province, despite a nationwide downturn  —  Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming, drawing the attention of out-of-town buyers.