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Meet India’s MrBeast — selfless saint or fame-hungry vlogger?

What happens when you subsidize EVs but not charging stations

A snapshot into quick commerce’s decline (and potential revival)

This fascist clothing company hopes you’ll tweet about how offensive it is

Faster, cheaper: How ending the government monopoly improved Ethiopia’s internet

Beyond the Valley: Nine companies hit hard by the global tech crash

“Sushi terrorism”: Viral pranks have caused an all-out panic in Japan

How the global startup economy is reacting to SVB’s crash

Rappi’s latest service: publicity stunts

Nigeria’s tech workers got used to good salaries and high demand. Then came the crash

The data startup helping businesses navigate climate change

Investors told Latin American startups to bank with SVB. Then it collapsed

60 days to find a job or leave the country

Tech’s very bad year, in numbers

Preventing deadly elephant attacks with a new app

Leaked law proposal would give Cambodia expanded powers to censor critics

Migrants must overcome a new barrier at the border: The U.S. government’s terrible app

China embraces ChatGPT for love letters, Amazon listings

India’s plan to encourage EV adoption is failing

Power outages are killing South Africa’s gig economy

Do Indian tech companies have a Women’s Day problem?

Rest of World receives $200,000 grant from Ford Foundation to expand coverage of how tech is impacting workers

Xiaohongshu becomes an online oasis for trans people in China

Treating online harassment as a global epidemic

TikTok’s viral monks are clashing with Buddhist authorities

India’s crypto industry is imploding

YouTube has created a multimillion-dollar dubbing economy

How Chinese smartphones won the hearts (and wallets) of Indonesia

The momfluencers helping hundreds of pregnant Russian women move to Argentina

Tinder robberies have men in Brazil on high alert

Tesla’s Mexico announcement reveals a very Latin American weakness

The tech workers exiled from Europe’s last dictatorship

How Bangladesh’s first and only unicorn used “human ATMs” to promote financial inclusion

China is bored of Baidu. Here’s how their AI chatbot will transform the company

People on TikTok are paying elderly women to sit in stagnant mud for hours and cry

More CCTV, more crime: India’s most-surveilled cities are the least safe

How Temu topped the U.S. app charts by turning shopping into a game

Days after a promised refund, some FTX Japan users are still waiting for their money

Japan’s “sauna boom” has a steamy new app

How Ukraine is beating Russia’s disinformation campaigns

Once a ticket scalpers’ tool, auto clickers now help migrants enter the U.S.

Battery-swapping EVs are all the rage in Taiwan. Will it work abroad?

Amazon’s plan to lure shoppers with free streaming is working in India

What South Asians want to know about ChatGPT

China is exporting its tiny EV obsession

Why Ion Mobility CEO James Chan is the anti-Musk

Pakistan’s three-day Wikipedia ban sends a “dangerous” message

Voice actors are training the AI that will replace them

China beats Tesla to Nigeria’s lithium riches