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网页Amid economic, political, and environmental uncertainty, Pakistanis are increasingly seeking guidance from digital astrologers for a sense of reassurance. In this narrated feature, Rest of World profiles celebrity astrologers who are revitalizing the practice in one of the world’s most populous Muslim nations, using their growing platforms to ...
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网页2024年9月30日 · Silicon Valley in Rest of World 1 October 2024. Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers. By Lam Le. By Viola Zhou. By Nadia Nooreyezdan. Digital Divinity 30 September 2024.
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网页2024年10月3日 · By Ibrahim Al-Mukhtar Al-Sanussi and Damilare Dosunmu. Silicon Valley in Rest of World 1 October 2024. Apple manufacturers moved from China to Vietnam. Now they’re desperate for workers. Recruiters are wooing new workers with bonuses and gifts. By Lam Le. Digital Divinity 30 September 2024.
An ancient language has defied decryption for 100 years. Can AI …
网页2022年2月8日 · It took professional and amateur epigraphists — people who study ancient written matter — nearly six decades of mental wrangling to decode Linear B. Officially, 30-year-old British architect Michael Ventris is primarily credited with its decipherment, although the private efforts of classicist Alice Kober lay the groundwork for his ...
TikTok is repeating Facebook’s mistakes in Myanmar
网页A video posted to TikTok on March 3rd threatening to shoot protesters. Now, members of Myanmar’s digital-rights community say that TikTok, a social media platform valued at $50 billion, is repeating these mistakes. These individuals described the company to Rest of World as a “black hole” that had not made inroads with civil society nor hired enough Burmese-speaking experts to enable it ...
Curfew in Bangladesh hits local tech industry - Rest of World
网页2024年7月20日 · By Faisal Mahmud. Bangladesh’s tech industry has come to a halt as the nationwide internet blackouts entered a third day, leaving thousands of companies with financial and reputational losses, and workers feeling helpless. Internet services in Bangladesh were shut on July 18 following violent clashes between the …
The world’s last internet cafes - Rest of World
网页By Rest of World Staff. 25 July 2023. W hen the world’s first internet cafe, Cafe Cyberia, first opened its doors in London’s West End in September 1994, its founders could never have imagined what they’d unleashed. Internet cafes — cheap, accessible venues where just about anyone could explore cyberspace in its infancy — spread ...
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网页Mission. Rest of World is a nonprofit publication that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter. We connect the dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated.
Visa and Mastercard are pouring money into Africa - Rest of World
网页2024年3月13日 · By Damilare Dosunmu. In 2023, Visa launched its Africa Fintech Accelerator program, just six months after the Mastercard Foundation announced a fund to invest in early-stage companies through local firms. Last month, Mastercard agreed to buy a 3.8% stake in the mobile money business of Africa’s largest telecom, MTN, for $200 million.
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网页2024年8月16日 · Rest of World receives $200,000 from Luminate to expand coverage of AI technology. By Rest of World. The sponsorship resources will be used to report on stories, create an AI election tracker, and hold a live event. 4 Apr 2024.