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WhatsApp vigilantes in India are converting Christians by force. In this episode, Rest of World explores how far-right Hindu nationalists use WhatsApp to target Christian families when they’re most vulnerable — by preventing them from burying their dead. Written by Parth MN. Additional reporting by Durga M Sengupta.
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Oct 24, 2024 · Test your knowledge of e-commerce startups, 17th-century markets, and everything in between. By Rest of World. Creator Economy 17 October 2024. The Catholic Church condemned Santa Muerte. TikTokers gave her a makeover. A growing number of Santa Muerte devotees are using social media to rebrand the controversial Mexican deity of death.
Crunchyroll is trying to turn India into a nation of anime lovers
Aug 15, 2024 · A monthly subscription for Crunchyroll in India starts at 79 rupees (94 cents), one of the cheapest in the world, according to the company. In June, the company partnered with Prime Video: Now, Prime subscribers can watch Crunchyroll as a channel within the app. “There has been a subscription or streaming subscription fatigue,” Purini said ...
Behind SmartNews, the $2 billion unicorn trying to fix the news ...
Oct 14, 2021 · SmartNews has developed a news-recommendation algorithm that promises to serve its readers a personalized, but politically balanced range of stories. Alongside is a feature called “News From All Sides,” built specifically for the U.S. market. It marks the partisan spectrum of news stories clearly, and allows readers to toggle between them.
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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.
Inside TSMC’s Phoenix, Arizona expansion struggles - Rest of World
Apr 23, 2024 · TSMC did not respond to a detailed list of questions from Rest of World. TSMC’s glass-walled office building at the construction site on the outskirts of northern Phoenix in March 2024. TSMC’s facilities are located on the outskirts of northern Phoenix, surrounded by miles of desert hills and wide roads. A glass-walled office building sits ...
Hackers stole and leaked her private photos. Then she was …
Oct 4, 2021 · On September 23rd, Judith Heard’s nude photos were leaked for the second time. Lured by a scammer posing as former U.N. Special Rapporteur, David Kaye, the long-time Ugandan fashion model believed she had been offered an opportunity to speak at a U.N. event.
An ancient language has defied decryption for 100 years. Can AI …
Feb 8, 2022 · 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 ...
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Oct 9, 2024 · 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.
China’s favorite resale app is a youth subculture hot spot
Oct 13, 2023 · Developed by e-commerce giant Alibaba in 2014, Xianyu (“idle fish” in Chinese) is the largest secondhand trading app in China. With over 500 million monthly active users, it is the second largest e-commerce app in the Alibaba ecosystem, second only to Taobao. The app’s user base skews young — 45% of its users are born after 1995 — and ...