Rest of World

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We’re a global nonprofit publication that champions on-the-ground reporting of tech stories in places far beyond Silicon Valley.
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Rest of WorldJun 3, 2025
How new “bossware” startups are allowing companies to track employees through biometrics, timekeeping systems, productivity monitoring and other forms of surveillance
https://restofworld.org/2025/employee-surveillance-software-vc-funding/
VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech

A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.

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Rest of WorldApr 30, 2025

“Tesla is for the West; Ola is for the rest.” Bhavish Aggarwal’s Musk-y ambition powered India’s biggest EV company — until a wave of crashes and complaints sent Ola Electric’s stock tumbling.

Read our new deep dive into the EV giant’s rise and fall:
https://restofworld.org/2025/bhavish-aggarwal-ola-ev-india/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=row-social

Inside the spectacular rise and crash of India’s largest EV company

Can Bhavish Aggarwal fix Ola Electric's problems — or is he one of them?

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Rest of WorldApr 28, 2025
Years of restrictions on U.S. semiconductors have pushed China to invest billions into its domestic supply chain. Now Chinese companies are closing the gap on Nvidia and TSMC
https://restofworld.org/2025/china-chipmakers-nvidia-tsmc-gap/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=row-social
China’s chipmakers are catching up to Nvidia and TSMC. Here’s how they compare

Restrictions on U.S. chips have pushed the Chinese government to invest billions into its domestic supply chain.

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Rest of WorldApr 22, 2025
In a few weeks, Skype is going the way of other early internet icons like AOL Instant Messenger and Friendster. But before it shuts down, we asked Rest of World readers to share their favorite memories of using the video-calling service
https://restofworld.org/2025/skype-shutting-down/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=row-social
When the world connected on Skype

On the eve of its demise, Rest of World readers remember how Skype changed their world.

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Rest of WorldApr 21, 2025
New data reveals just how many African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing outsourced jobs like content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models
https://restofworld.org/2025/big-tech-ai-labor-supply-chain-african-workers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=row-social
How Big Tech hides its outsourced African workforce

New data reveals the hidden network of African workers powering AI, as they push for transparency from the global companies that employ them indirectly.

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Rest of WorldApr 16, 2025
For years, Venezuelan migrants survived off clickwork — low-level digital jobs like tagging data, content moderation, or writing SEO content. Now AI is putting them out of work
https://restofworld.org/2025/generative-ai-clickwork-venezuela-migrants/?utm_source=mast&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=row-social
Venezuelan migrants relied on clickwork to survive. Now AI is replacing them 

Venezuela has long provided the tech industry with cheap, educated workers. But with the rise of generative AI, jobs have become less lucrative and harder to find.

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Rest of WorldApr 9, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on nearly all imported goods — and the global fallout has been swift.

Rest of World breaks down the details, and looks at how countries and companies in the regions we cover are responding:
https://restofworld.org/2025/trump-tariffs-us-trade-crackdown-targets-global-imports/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=row-social

Trump is escalating a global trade war. Rest of World tracked the worldwide fallout

Trump’s latest round of tariffs targets nearly all U.S. imports, hitting countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America with steep new rates and shaking global supply chains.

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Rest of WorldApr 8, 2025
“Jensen doesn’t talk politics, not with me, not with anybody. He is probably the most powerful tech figure in America to not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration. Now, Jensen must deal with politics. The disruption to his business is too severe.”
https://restofworld.org/2025/nvidia-ai-chips-stephen-witt-jensen-huang-tariffs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=row-social
Trump’s tariffs are testing Nvidia’s chip supremacy. Can Jensen Huang weather the storm?

Stephen Witt, author of a new book on Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang, on how the leading AI chip designer is navigating geopolitical tensions around its products.

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Rest of WorldApr 1, 2025

The U.S. keeps expanding its chip bans for China. So how are Chinese companies still getting chips?

One answer: smuggling. The U.S. restrictions have fueled a black market smuggling network for the most advanced semiconductor chips. An estimated 12,500 chips enter China yearly through smuggling.

Get the full breakdown: https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-companies-skirt-us-chip-bans/

This is how China skirts U.S. chip bans

Chinese tech companies use smugglers, loopholes, and innovation to work around U.S. chip restrictions

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Rest of WorldMar 28, 2025
The loss of auto manufacturing jobs and investment resulting from U.S. tariffs could have another dire consequence: strengthening the very same criminal organizations that President Trump is pressuring Mexico to suppress
https://restofworld.org/2025/trump-tariffs-threaten-growth-mexico-ev-hubs/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=row-social
U.S. tariffs threaten Mexico’s booming EV sector

Despite the government's efforts to protect local businesses, geopolitical tensions could derail Mexico's ambitions to become a major EV manufacturing hub.

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