At around 9 p.m. one Friday evening in December, 50-year-old Uber driver Nolwazi Mtshekexe got a ride request from a passenger in Soweto, a particularly dangerous corner of Johannesburg. She knew it ...

Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use ...

The U.S. Trade Representative has launched a formal investigation into Pix, Brazil’s state-run digital payment platform. Pix’s rapid growth and free, public model have made it a powerful competitor to ...

The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the ...

Chinese open-weight AI models are outperforming Western rivals on capability and cost. Resource constraints forced Chinese developers to build leaner, more efficient systems that appeal to global ...

Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned following two days of protests against rampant corruption and inequality, exacerbated by the government’s recent decision to ban some social media ...

Huang Qing, the Shanghai-based creative director of athleisure label Voice of Insiders, meticulously accounts for each design choice. His high-tech garments are cut from material woven with seaweed ...

More than 20 influencers were elected into the Indonesian parliament this year. Influencers have the resources to contest polls, and are familiar to voters. Celebrities learn little about political ...

Internet shutdowns have become a common tool that governments can use to repress free speech, curtail access to information, and punish protest. In 2020 alone, 29 countries restricted access to the ...

Indian tech workers who were laid off from companies like Twitter, Amazon, and Microsoft in the U.S. last year are struggling to find jobs back home. They have been forced to take huge salary cuts and ...

The world’s cheapest smartphones are disappearing because AI infrastructure is absorbing the components. Prices of existing smartphone models have risen by about 15% globally this year, while newly ...

Big Tech’s newest personal agents — Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots — promise to book tables at restaurants, buy groceries, and carry out other types of digital grunt work for users. Consumers are ...