Last week, Togo became the first African country to land Equiano, Google's subsea internet cable for Africa. The cable, which is part of the tech giant's $1 billion investment in Africa, will land in Nigeria, Namibia, and South Africa later this year. What good will it do for Tog … | Continue reading
The hijra, or “third gender,” are bound together by a mysterious tongue they say originated in the royal courts of medieval India. | Continue reading
A petition has gained 50,000-plus signatures in five days. | Continue reading
Kevin Pu and Sophia Sun met on Facebook but fell in love on a Google Doc | Continue reading
Shrinkflation is causing consumers to pay the same or more for less. | Continue reading
The company's Ukrainian founders have also made the company's service free to Ukrainian news outlets posting English-language updates on the war. | Continue reading
Seven Russian banks have now been excluded from the SWIFT system following the Ukraine war. | Continue reading
A new survey found that 92% of US workers would prefer a four-day work week. What could be more popular than that? | Continue reading
On Feb 8. San Francisco became the latest city to consider a vacancy tax for housing that is unused for extended periods of time. | Continue reading
Norrsken House in Kigali, Rwanda, plans to host 1,000 entrepreneurs. | Continue reading
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A bean-to-bar movement is finally taking hold in India, a country obsessed with Cadbury. | Continue reading
Academic publishing has always privileged the scientists of the West, who dominate the pages of journals and can best afford their subscription fees. Covid-19 has made this imbalance even more stark. | Continue reading
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The Intel-backed startup wants to use its position as the world's biggest seller of driver assistance systems to map every road on earth and develop a safer, more reliable self-driving car. | Continue reading
TikTok jumped from seventh to first place in a year according to Cloudflare | Continue reading
2020 has proven to be a milestone year for electric aviation. | Continue reading
Readers in June, July, and August sought information on the big sporting events. In September and October, top pages were overwhelmingly related to Netflix's hit show Squid Game. In December it's Spiderman. | Continue reading
A new global cost of living index ranks Tel Aviv as the most expensive city in the world. | Continue reading
Venture fund a16z has been a longstanding proponent of crypto, from its early investment in Coinbase eight years ago. Here are the crypto companies and trends a16z is betting on next. | Continue reading
The troubles faced by its chipmakers are likely to make China try harder for self-reliance in the sector. | Continue reading
Relying on drugmakers' data on efficacy risks compromising the public trust in official approvals | Continue reading
You are special and important and also irrelevant and meaningless. | Continue reading
The Amazon Web Services outage affected everything from home deliveries to dating to vacuum cleaners. | Continue reading
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Investments are still flowing in—thanks, in large part, to local entrepreneurs who have been laying the groundwork for this moment for more than a decade. | Continue reading
A French climber can keep half of the gems he discovered on Mont Blanc among the wreckage of a 1966 Air India crash. | Continue reading
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Two cases of the omicron variant have already been discovered in Canada, and Anthony Fauci thinks it's probably reached Americans. | Continue reading
These buildings add color and whimsy to the high-altitude town of El Alto. | Continue reading
A lexicographer explains the process and politics of adding new terms to the dictionary. | Continue reading
The virtual platform will be a place for cultural events and city and business services | Continue reading
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NASA administrator Bill Nelson says that since the universe is so big, chances are that there are other planets like ours. | Continue reading
One in five US healthcare workers has quit their job because of burnout and low pay. | Continue reading
As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s… | Continue reading
How the Dave Chappelle special is forcing tough conversations about transparency and employees' voices at Netflix | Continue reading
No-code tools help develop apps without requiring coding knowledge. | Continue reading
"I felt complicit as the head of employee communications," says former Blue Origin employee Alexandra Abrams. | Continue reading
Google Capital recently made its first investment in an Indian company—but Freshdesk, a help-desk startup, happens to be registered in the US. If it had… | Continue reading
The dispute is holding up the space agency's plans to return astronauts to the moon. | Continue reading
Khaby Lame takes the mystery out of so-called life hacks by using common sense alternatives. The internet loves it. | Continue reading
Grofers, Dunzo, and Swiggy are leveraging tech to reduce delivery timelines for customers, but their riders are getting more and more stressed. | Continue reading
McDonald's and Chick-fil-A are closing some locations due to worker shortages and rising Covid-19 cases. | Continue reading
The internet may encourage a shallow kind of information processing that facilitates belief in bullshit. | Continue reading
American law enforcement agencies employ dogs to do their detective work and dirty work. Yet dogs get killed by cops an awful lot. | Continue reading
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Why the price of emissions credits in China's carbon market reached a record low. | Continue reading