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Cities from Canggu to Medellín are welcoming tech workers, but locals complain they’re being priced out.

Ghostwriters say the meteoric rise of ChatGPT has coincided with a drop in income.

Trust is fading, startups are shutting down, and Web3 workers are reconsidering their career choices.

From images of solar cooking to snake radio telemetry, we received 548 entries from around the world.

How the office grind is being outsourced from Silicon Valley to Manila.

Workers describe a peak production season marred by labor protests and Covid-19 chaos, right as Apple reconsiders its China supply chain.

Shaik Salauddin: the Indian driver-turned-union leader who is brushing shoulders with top politicians and giving ride-hailing firms a run for their money.

Seven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent.

LGBTQI groups found rare freedoms online, but this year, many were shut by censors. It feels like slowly being sanded down, said one member.

Millions of people in China are buying off-brand electric cars, which are cheap, tiny, barely regulated, and extremely useful.

From food to gadgets to sports, explore how the business empire of one of the world’s richest men touches the everyday lives of millions in India.

Claiming wisdom based on the Bhagavad Gita, the bots frequently go way off script.

From college sophomores to 9-to-5 IT workers, hobbyist OSINT accounts are reconstructing events on the ground.

When China’s top livestreaming salesman, Austin Li, vanished over a tank-shaped ice cream cake, many fans thought he was gone for good.

Forget tradition. Social media trends are now driving piñata sales in Mexico.

Reduced investment and large-scale layoffs have created dark times for tech globally.

After years of robust investment and hiring in the tech sector during the Covid-19 pandemic, 2022 brought with it a sharp downturn. Here’s how the tough times are impacting tech companies and workers…

A permanent split with Chinese apps was less disruptive than many expected.

Li Ziqi’s fans span from the U.S. to Bangladesh. But behind the camera, she is just another player in China’s platform economy.

In the “smart nation,” robot dogs enforce social distancing and an app can claim to neutralize racism. The reality is very different.

«It has a global reputation as one of the safest cities in the world, but Singapore’s national narrative is one of profound and enduring insecurity.»

Platforms are hiring gig workers around the world to write steamy romance novels for English-speaking readers.

For decades, it was nearly impossible to type in Urdu. Some are working to bring the script into a digital future.

«of the more than 7,000 languages used around the world — 2,500 of which are considered endangered — less than 5% were becoming fully functioning languages in the online realm. The expansion of the internet, in other words, is precipitating a massive linguistic extinction. »

Displacement, attacks, and air raid alerts are daily life for Ukraine’s disrupted tech workforce.

Kids in the Philippines were earning hundreds of dollars from a play-to-earn Minecraft game, until new rules sent the community into a tailspin.