Tag: Politics

Rest of World

Why Bangladesh’s unlikely satellite engineers are still waiting for liftoff

The launch of Bangladesh’s first satellite sparked an explosion of national pride and a mini space race in the country’s colleges seven years ago. Now, the […]
September 22nd, 2025
TechSauce

Conversation with Sigve Brekke: Shaping Thailand’s Competitive Digital Future

Sigve Brekke, Executive Chair of CP Telecom and Digital Group & Group CEO of True Corporation, is one of the most notable leaders in Thailand’s technology […]
September 8th, 2025
Rest of World

EV jobs are starting to slip away

The electric vehicle industry is cutting staff faster than smoke. More than 30,000 workers have lost their positions at electric-vehicle makers and related industries worldwide over […]
September 4th, 2025
The Recursive

Preparing for Cross-Border Cyberattacks: Cybersecurity Experts Need To Stop Thinking Like Engineers

As geopolitical tensions increasingly spill into cyberspace, a growing number of cybersecurity professionals are beginning to look beyond technical indicators to understand the strategic forces behind […]
July 24th, 2025
Rest of World

Politics and USAID cuts put a telehealth program on life support

Mahbubur Rahman is used to the rhythms and interruptions of running a telemedicine center on the northern fringe of the Sunderbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest.  […]
July 10th, 2025
Rest of World

What we’re reading: Rest of World’s summer book list

Memoir Big Tech Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism  By Sarah-Wynn Williams In her review of this book, former Meta employee […]
July 4th, 2025
Rest of World

The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley

When Sonia Ramos was a child, she witnessed an accident that would shape the rest of her life. She was born into a mining family in […]
May 26th, 2025
Rest of World

How Big Tech hides its outsourced African workforce

Firms that provide outsourced digital labor for big tech companies tend to be secretive. They are often bound by legal contracts that limit what they can […]
April 21st, 2025
The Recursive

It Feels Like Déjà Vu: How Investors are Recalibrating in 2025

The world feels tense. A potential US recession, ongoing war in Ukraine, political instability at home and abroad — these aren’t the kinds of headlines that […]
April 16th, 2025
Rest of World

Trump’s tariffs are testing Nvidia’s chip supremacy. Can Jensen Huang weather the storm?

Stephen Witt’s new book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, is out this week, just as U.S. President Donald Trump’s […]
April 8th, 2025
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