The Best of Rest of World
10+ most popular Rest of World articles, as voted by our community.
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Rest of World on Anime
AI-generated art sparks furious backlash from Japan’s anime community
Dall-E might be the hot new thing, but outside Silicon Valley, fear and outrage are ramping up.
Rest of World on Business
Welcome to the Ambaniverse: How one billionaire dominates every aspect of life in India
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.
Meet the most powerful Uber driver 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.
Rest of World on Digital Life
In the dark: the internet sparked a revolution, then it was turned off
Seven years, 60 countries, 935 internet shutdowns: How authoritarian regimes found an off switch for dissent.
Rest of World on Electric Vehicles
The future of electric cars isn’t Tesla. It’s golf carts.
Millions of people in China are buying off-brand electric cars, which are cheap, tiny, barely regulated, and extremely useful.
Rest of World on Equity
China’s queer internet is being erased
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 workers are managed by algorithms
One day, that could be normal. Here’s what we need to do about it.
Rest of World on Open Source
Amateur open-source researchers went viral unpacking the war in Ukraine
From college sophomores to 9-to-5 IT workers, hobbyist OSINT accounts are reconstructing events on the ground.
Rest of World on Tiktok
Ideas | She drew millions of TikTok followers selling a fantasy of rural China. Politics intervened
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.
Rest of World on Twitter
89% of surveyed Twitter employees say the company will fail under Musk
Sunguk Moon, CEO and co-founder of the anonymous workplace forum Blind, reveals how workers at Twitter and Meta really feel.
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Singapore’s tech-utopia dream is turning into a surveillance state nightmare
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.»
How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion
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 underwater cables up the stakes on internet control
Google and Meta’s new subsea cables mark a tectonic shift in how the internet works, and who controls it.
Indians WhatsApp users are frustrated with spam from brands like Xiaomi, Tata Neu, Flipkart, Reliance Ajio
Revenue pressures forced WhatsApp to turn to e-commerce, and now the company is contending with a plague of spammers.
The dirty road to clean energy: how China’s electric vehicle boom is ravaging the environment
In neighboring Indonesia, nickel extraction is causing environmental and social devastation.
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Rest of World on Social Media
The mysterious reappearance of China’s missing mega-influencer
When China’s top livestreaming salesman, Austin Li, vanished over a tank-shaped ice cream cake, many fans thought he was gone for good.
Smash hits: How viral memes conquered piñata design
Forget tradition. Social media trends are now driving piñata sales in Mexico.