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Dall-E might be the hot new thing, but outside Silicon Valley, fear and outrage are ramping up.

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.

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.

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

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

One day, that could be normal. Here’s what we need to do about it.

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.

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.

Sunguk Moon, CEO and co-founder of the anonymous workplace forum Blind, reveals how workers at Twitter and Meta really feel.

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.»

By connecting China’s garment factories with Western Gen-Z customers, Shein ushered in a new era of ‘ultra-fast’ shopping.

«secret is Shein’s internal software, which connects its entire business from design to delivery. “Everything is optimized with big data,”»

Google and Meta’s new subsea cables mark a tectonic shift in how the internet works, and who controls it.

Revenue pressures forced WhatsApp to turn to e-commerce, and now the company is contending with a plague of spammers.

In neighboring Indonesia, nickel extraction is causing environmental and social devastation.