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An artistic collage featuring three men's faces and a satellite dish, overlaid with text about Starlink terms and policies.

After Musk joined Trump, countries rolled out the red carpet for Starlink

Newly revealed contract between Starlink and Bangladesh shows how these deals are made.

December 3, 2025

When the world connected on Skype

Rest of World readers remember how Skype changed their world

April 22, 2025
Two figures in traditional clothing are building a structure with bricks while looking toward a large, expressive moon figure in the background. The scene is set against a blue sky filled with stars and moon phases, with additional decorative elements surrounding the border. A telescope is present, suggesting a connection to astronomy.

Digital Divinity

Where ancient traditions meet modern technology

September 30, 2024

🏆 Society for News Design

A collage of images taken from a group on WhatsApp, showing a man holding a candle against a purple background. The images are set against a green background used on WhatsApp.

Inside the BJP's WhatsApp Machine

How India’s ruling party uses the app to campaign free from public scrutiny

May 14, 2024
A black and white illustration with aqua highlights showing a large protest being surveilled by CCTV cameras and a drone.

The changing face of protest

Mass protests used to offer safety in numbers. Facial recognition technology changes the equation

March 27, 2024

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A photo of a man sitting on a motorbike on a busy street in Lahore, Pakistan.

Riders in the Smog

After equipping gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors, the readings were off the charts

February 27, 2024
An illustration showing emoji characters sitting on a blue text bubble laughing hysterically.

How different languages laugh online

Laughter is universal, but lol is not

December 18, 2023

🏆 National Magazine Award

A photo showing a cluster of Shein shipping bags laid out on a yellow background.

China, the World's Shopping Cart

E-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu are going global with big ambitions

November 14, 2023

🏆 National Magazine Award

A photo collage showing a grid of square images with portraits of people, exteriors of buildings, city streets, and plates of food.

How AI is reducing the World to Stereotypes

3,000 AI images analyzed to show how image generators see cultures

October 10, 2023

🏆 Online Journalism Award

40 Companies Beating the West

Faster, smarter, more adaptable: The emerging market pioneers outmaneuvering Silicon Valley

October 5, 2023

🏆 National Magazine Award

A photo of a woman with red hair drinking from a cup with a straw while seated at a computer in an internet cafe.

Inside the World's last internet cafes

Documenting them before they vanish

July 25, 2023

Welcome to the Ambaniverse

It's Mukesh Ambani's world — we're just living in it

November 15, 2022

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Chinese citizens use puns to get past internet censors

Chinese social media companies and users are locked in a never-ending battle

October 11, 2022

🏆 Society for News Design

How to Buy

E-commerce isn't the same around the globe

May 31, 2022

In the dark

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

April 26, 2022

🏆 Society for News Design

The Global Gig Workers

The platform work model is reshaping entire economies, sectors, lifestyles, and livelihoods

September 21, 2021

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  • Share of foreign-born talent in Science & Engineering roles in the U.S.

  • H-1B applications decline under Donald Trump's presidency

  • Far more Chinese clean tech outbound FDI has been announced than actually completed

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  • Chinese FDI announcements in clean tech in the last decade

  • Shifting foreign production plans for Chinese EV and battery makers

  • Where does AI spending go?

  • How much do AI models cost?

  • Global EV sales last year exceeded 20 million for the first time