Japanese news aggregator SmartNews was on the rise in the U.S., with a $2 billion valuation and a mission to fix the polarization of political news. In 2023, its American expansion came to a ...

A new hackathon invites developers to build offline, multilingual AI tools, challenging the idea that cutting-edge innovation ...

What seems like a rescue could prove to be a retreat, as Chery leads its rivals into the heart of Europe’s car industry.

Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, ...

A court struck down Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee. But many foreign workers say years of shifting immigration rules have ...

Universities are dropping programs in translation and foreign languages while adding degrees in embodied intelligence, AI, ...

China has 85% of the world’s recycling capacity and a mandate to shred old packs. The U.S. has another plan: use them to save ...

One evening in the Maldives, I spent a few hours talking with local entrepreneurs. I expected to hear about tourism, politics ...

Authorities in Brazil have warned of a spike in hacked Instagram accounts in the past year. Frustrated by Meta’s slow response, victims are paying individuals who call themselves “hackers éticos” ...

Researchers found messages advertising guns across 234 publicly accessible WhatsApp groups in India, which violates Meta’s policies prohibiting firearm sales. The names and descriptions of some groups ...

Users in Southeast Asia have found a loophole to turn their buy-now-pay-later credit to cash. Scams are rife, with few protections for users. Authorities in Thailand are concerned about the risk of ...

Gig driver unions in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria have organized several strikes against what they believe are exploitative practices by apps like Uber, Bolt, and inDrive. Union representatives, ...