Philippine chipmakers are embracing automation — and leaving low-skilled workers behind
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Filipinos are embracing electric three-wheelers faster than officials can regulate them
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When electric vehicle startups shut down, will their cars still work?
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Missed deadlines and tension among Taiwanese and American coworkers are plaguing TSMC's Phoenix expansion
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The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data
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India’s electric rickshaws are leaving EVs in the dust
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Indonesia’s e-bike shops are building their own batteries
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Exhausted Pakistani content moderators are now trying to find other work but have been unsuccessful because their experience isn’t transferable
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Why Indian universities are ditching English-only education
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How AI art reduces the world to stereotypes
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In search of fresh material to mine, AI companies are hiring poets, novelists, playwrights, writers, and Ph.D.s
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Brazilian delivery workers take their fight to get app users to pick up their orders to local legislatures
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The world’s last internet cafes
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AI comes for YouTube’s thumbnail industry
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Desperate Chinese parents are joining dating apps to marry off their adult children
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The secret to becoming the world’s biggest digital bank: A user-friendly app
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Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50”.
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Forget subtitles: YouTube’s new feature dubs videos with AI-generated voices
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The obscure social media app beloved by China’s tech scene
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Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing
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The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution
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Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India
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How viral memes conquered piñata design
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The Vietnamese military has a troll army and Facebook is its weapon
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How Urban Company built an empire of female Indian gig workers
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AI-generated art sparks furious backlash from Japan’s anime community
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Chinese tech giants are creating a new class of elite workers in Latin America
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Scooters and three-wheelers are really what’s driving an EV revolution
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Mexican scam loan apps will edit your face onto X-rated photos and send them to your family
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Six months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling
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AroundMeBD’s extravagant and oddly satisfying videos have created a lucrative cooking empire
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These vending machines sell internet access five minutes at a time
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Leeks, tropicalizers, and cutting the soap: A guide to global startup slang
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The Chinese content farms running hundreds of "factory TikTok" accounts for marketing
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Locked out of a failing job market, young Zimbabweans are turning to forex currency trading to make a living
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Millions of people in China are embracing tiny, off-brand electric cars
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Teachers in Africa are using radio to keep remote learning affordable and accessible, since many households have no access to internet or a computer
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Pakistan’s government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back
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Targeted by government misinformation, activists in the Phillipines are asking Facebook to do more to tackle a deadly epidemic of "red-tagging"
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Telegrass and the next generation of digital black markets - Telegram-based services are facilitating much of the drug sales in Ukraine, Israel, and other countries
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Navigating China’s censorship and India’s apps ban, Tibetan refugees rethink their dependence on WeChat
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QAF: A Chinese fan-forum that's grown into a hub for volunteers subtitling foreign LGBTIQ media and a support community
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Anatomy of an internet shutdown
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