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Creators like MrBeast pay up to $10,000 for a single YouTube video thumbnail, but the rise of AI tools have some designers anxious about the microeconomy’s future.

Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can't do basic information retrieval.

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.

For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.

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.

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.

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

Hotmart is quietly turning even micro-influencers into millionaires.

How IIT school degrees became a fast track to tech royalty.

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

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.

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