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How WhatsApp ate the world WhatsApp is already the world’s most widely used messaging app. Meta wants it to be a lot more. WhatsApp is the world’s most widely used messaging app, with 2 billion daily users, who send 100 billion messages every day …
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Dec 12, 2024 · From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.
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Dec 13, 2024 · From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.
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Oct 4, 2024 · Rest of World is an international nonprofit journalism organization. We document what happens when technology, culture and the human experience collide, in places that are typically overlooked and…
How 2024’s tech trends changed our lives - Rest of World
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 of EVs, the evolving creator economy, more startups becoming regional champions, and growing scrutiny of the activities of Silicon Valley tech giants around the world.
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Dec 3, 2024 · Rest of World now offers AI narrations for newly reported stories, powered by OpenAI’s text-to-speech technology. Just press play and listen!
WhatsApp is a lifeline in conflict zones and natural disasters - Rest ...
Dec 11, 2024 · Before the fall of 2023, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees relied on phone calls, emails, and in-person meetings to communicate with its staff in Gaza, UNRWA director of communications Juliette Touma told Rest of World.Then, on October 7 that year, Hamas attacked Israel, killing around 1,200 people. Israel responded with a massive …
The unexpected global tech winners of 2024 - Rest of World
Dec 6, 2024 · Lesser-known tech companies were rewarded by changing headwinds outside the West this year. India’s homegrown EV industry, a Chinese video game that became a soft power success, and a U.S.-based walkie-talkie app that proved unexpectedly popular in Kenya are some of Rest of World’s most surprising winners in global tech in 2024.. Homegrown three-wheeler …
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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.
Rest of World’s 2023 impact report
Apr 23, 2024 · Rest of World is an award-winning nonprofit publication that focuses on how tech is transforming the daily lives of billions of people across emerging markets. Our reporting spotlights communities and countries that have long been dismissed and underestimated by mainstream Western media. Over 4 billion of the world’s 5 billion internet users live in non-Western countries.