There are only two local electric bus makers in Kenya: BasiGo and Roam. Roam predominantly makes EV bikes and only recently ...

The project, iTanong, is like a local version of ChatGPT, Peramo told Rest of World. Through a web page, users can ask ...

Shivika Sabharwal’s nerves kicked in the second she spotted the size of the crowd. It was mid-September, and Sabharwal was standing center stage inside a massive event space at Mumbai’s extravagant ...

The U.S. and China are in an intensifying race for top tech workers, particularly in AI. Sanctions mean China’s elite workers covet U.S. jobs and access to the best AI technology. Experts say national ...

In 2024, Rest of World covered some of the biggest shifts in the tech industry that have changed lives around the world: the rise of AI, Chinese companies expanding overseas, the widespread adoption ...

Wellness tracker company MeMind created a tailor-made version of its app for the state to curb a suicide epidemic. The app’s AI diagnostic tool detects small changes in behavior patterns. Over the ...

Rest of World is an international publication focused on exploring the impact of technology beyond the Western bubble. Our goal is to surface and showcase the surprising and often unintended effects ...

More than 20 influencers were elected into the Indonesian parliament this year. Influencers have the resources to contest polls, and are familiar to voters. Celebrities learn little about political ...

Fidaa Maksour, a dispatcher with the White Helmets, a volunteer organization that operates largely in the war-torn northwestern region of Syria, was on duty in the early morning hours of February 6, ...

Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was Latin America’s top Spanish-language livestreamer. His press conferences, viewed for 49 million hours in 2023 alone, allowed dozens of content creators ...