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TSMC makes the world’s most advanced chips in Taiwan. Geopolitical shifts are pushing it to set up a new factory in the American desert. It needs to bring its cutting-edge tech but also a notoriously harsh, military-style work culture to the U.S. 🧵 restofworld.org/2024/tsmc-ariz…
I realized this when I had to return a backup lighting battery last spring for warranty replacement purchased on Amazon and the return address was some dude with a Chinese name at an apartment in Brooklyn.
Chinese immigrants are offering their living rooms and garages as mini warehouses for Temu, TikTok Shop, Amazon sellers. I visited a Brooklyn apartment-turned-fulfillment center. Here is what it’s like restofworld.org/2024/chinese-i… via @restofworld
Chinese immigrants are offering their living rooms and garages as mini warehouses for Temu, TikTok Shop, Amazon sellers. I visited a Brooklyn apartment-turned-fulfillment center. Here is what it’s like restofworld.org/2024/chinese-i… via @restofworld
In August, I travelled around small towns in Hungary to get a sense of how China’s $10 billion of EV-related investments in the country were shaping up. In Mikepércs, a tranquil village of 5,000, I met a group of mothers. restofworld.org/2024/hungary-c…
TikTok Shop has created a new pathway for ordinary users to become shopping influencers. We talked to the small-town moms who are making money by reviewing noodles, toys, Christmas trees on TikTok. restofworld.org/2024/tiktok-sh… via @restofworld with @peiyue_jess
A bombshell scoop by @QianerLiu U.S. Commerce Department is investigating whether TSMC has been making #AI or smartphone chips for #Huawei in what would be a breach of U.S. export rules theinformation.com/articles/u-s-p… Via @theinformation
I have an investigation out today, with @JoyDongHK, on the true cost of the panda program. I obtained rarely seen photos and videos. Here's a gift link. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
How far-right Hindu nationalists use WhatsApp to target Christian families when they’re most vulnerable — by preventing them from burying their dead. My ground report from Bastar for @restofworld restofworld.org/2024/whatsapp-…
Will the U.S. ever embrace TikTok Shop? The company is tapping amateur influencers to help. restofworld.org/2024/tiktok-sh… By @violazhouyi @peiyue_jess in @restofworld
1/NEW: Trump's "God Bless the USA" Bibles are printed in China, @rplardner and I found. Records show ~120,000 Bibles were shipped to the U.S. in Feb and March from a country Trump has accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices apnews.com/article/trump-…
During my recent travels to Southeast Asia, I witnessed how Chinese social media Xiaohongshu reshaped Chinese tourism in the region. Read my story from the “Wasteland Volcano” in Java and “Lonely Tree” in Luang Prabang: restofworld.org/2024/xiaohongs…
This Alabaster Grave is my first monograph exploring the overwhelming destruction and pain faced by the Iraqi city of Mosul, within the context of its history and unique, now largely ruined, architecture. Help fund it on Kickstarter today. kickstarter.com/projects/cengi…
Check out this very, very beautiful @restofworld project on religion and technology. You’ll get to browse through five books on altered reality, apps, AI, influencers, and the unexpected; and hear from the humans running these online spiritual spaces. restofworld.org/series/digital…
EXCLUSIVE: This is exactly when China blocked ChatGPT, Hugging Face and other AI sites. I received first access to a platform that can track the precise timing of Chinese censorship, when previously this was difficult. Explore our interactive graphic: restofworld.org/2024/when-chin…
Fascinating feature and photos on Pakistan’s YouTube astrologers
How YouTube is catapulting Pakistani astrologers to the stars Read our new feature, with photography by @saiyna restofworld.org/2024/YouTube-a…
To the public, Microsoft uses its reputation as an AI & sustainability leader to tell a compelling story: AI will do wonders to help solve the climate crisis. To fossil-fuel firms, Microsoft has a different message: AI will help them drill, baby, drill. 1/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
Despite a hostile political climate, Chinese tech firms are still setting eyes on the lucrative US market. In a Q&A with me, Kuo Zhang, head of Alibaba’s B2B site, talked about globalization, Trump’s tariffs, and why he is here wooing mom-and-pop shops. restofworld.org/2024/alibaba-b…
and a Middle Eastern turn is unfolding, as users tap into the unregulated and unsupervised transactional space of TikTok live matches to capitalize on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, staging their identities to cash in on virtual gifts; more work on this trend to come!
A very Chinese livestreaming feature taking a very American turn: On TikTok, teens are staging Trump vs. Harris live matches (called PK in China) to earn virtual gifts like unicorns, lions, whales – so they can pay for college. restofworld.org/2024/tiktok-li… via @restofworld
I wrote about how electric cars are “too online,” and as China’s EV market consolidates there are unexpected consequences. In @restofworld: restofworld.org/2024/ev-compan…
“I chatted two of them up to ask them why they were doing this,” Ineh said. “One told me it’s Nigeria versus South Africa. The other lady apologized.” our quick dispatch on how gig-workers paid for the hoax ride requests between Nigerians and SAfricans restofworld.org/2024/miss-sout…
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