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A disastrous privacy policy rollout has Indian consumers up in arms. | Continue reading
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With GitHub in the crosshairs of Chinese censors, Beijing is backing Gitee as its official hub, an open-source institution tailored for a closed internet. | Continue reading
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How India’s new restrictions on digital media will be used to limit free speech | Continue reading
Vicente Zavarce, who started Yummy, bet big on his home country — and won. | Continue reading
Tuvalu’s domain name could be the path to its economic future. | Continue reading
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Facing a nationalist backlash, Chinese phone maker Xiaomi has rebranded itself as a local manufacturer in India. | Continue reading
A protest movement against deliberately slow internet is galvanizing a remote region of Pakistan. | Continue reading
In the wake of India’s ban on Chinese apps, local developers are scrambling to come up with the next best thing. | Continue reading
Ongoing tensions over the rare earth metal are shaping the future of China and Brazil. | Continue reading
China’s tightening control over its internet is narrowing the divide between online and offline identity. | Continue reading
Their phones are a snapshot of how healthcare workers around the world are coping with the pandemic | Continue reading
Accused of enabling genocide, the social media giant has temporarily changed its rules in Myanmar to prevent abuse and misinformation. | Continue reading
Coupang wanted to make e-commerce more ethical. But as demand spiked during the pandemic, the company’s workers suffered. | Continue reading
For years, the platform was a space for selfies and free expression. Now, it’s driving political change. | Continue reading
The same data that tells advertisers you have been shopping for a couch is being used in Colombia to track Covid-19. | Continue reading
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It’s an ominous shift for China’s only forum for public discussion. | Continue reading
Employees told Rest of World the contractor they work for is taking advantage of an economic crisis. | Continue reading
How a raucous internet forum became the rudder steering the Hong Kong protests | Continue reading
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As Cuba sluggishly got its population online, the shadow internet developed by volunteers provided a lifeline for thousands of people. | Continue reading
Audrey Tang, who has a radical vision for the country, says there’s a high-stakes balancing act between mass digital surveillance and good governance. | Continue reading
How David Vélez built an “anti-bank” in Brazil that now has a $10-billion valuation. | Continue reading
With the threat of another big internet blackout looming, companies are creating workarounds for Iranians using satellite dishes as conduits for the web. | Continue reading
Indian authorities had to manage 250 million festivalgoers. So they built a high-tech surveillance ministate. | Continue reading
Virtual courts were meant to be the solution to a congested system in Nigeria. Then it was used to sentence a man to death. | Continue reading
In Gaza, citizens are imagining what public spaces could be, and then actually building them. | Continue reading
The country’s booming middle class is driving the market for digital self-help. | Continue reading
A council of clerics and 154 fatwas determine if a fintech startup gets the certification it needs to reach the country’s Muslim consumers. | Continue reading
Silk Road is dead. Meet the next generation of digital black markets for illegal drugs: fully decentralized, pay-by-crypto, and end-to-end encrypted bazaars. | Continue reading
Without the long haul to Palo Alto, foreign founders could tend to their startups back home and remotely woo investors. | Continue reading
After the catastrophic blast in Beirut this month, more than 55,000 students were left without classrooms. For them and many others, Lebanon’s “WhatsApp schools” are the only solution. | Continue reading
India is leading the world in virtual religion: live streams from holy sites, extensive footage of festivals, VR temple experiences, online prayer orders, and even social networks. | Continue reading
No longer confined to the privacy of their rooms, Saudi women are creating their own culture. | Continue reading
Navigating China’s censorship and India’s apps ban, Tibetan refugees rethink their dependence on WeChat. | Continue reading
Global data centers look for new homes as Beijing ramps up control over Hong Kong. | Continue reading
The AI talent shortage isn’t going away anytime soon. Fusemachines CEO Sameer Maskey says he’s found a solution. | Continue reading
Emotional-support robots are changing the dynamics of hospital care. | Continue reading
How did a Chinese video-sharing platform become a matter of national security? | Continue reading