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a little update on the goods! tldr: branding is going away, stories are not. vox.com/money/23627092
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Around the world cities have been building suspicion machines: Algorithms that flag potential welfare fraud. An investigation by and took one of these systems apart and showed how both algorithmic and human bias can skew its results.
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Florida currently has no required registry of guns or gun owners. But sure, let's register the bloggers.
Now the Florida GOP wants political bloggers to register with the government theverge.com/2023/3/6/23623 via
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Was it firing everyone
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Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.
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Baidu's deep learning framework (PaddlePaddle) is a decade old, Apollo (self-driving stack) is solid, and its AI Cloud is legit (though not a big player yet)
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YouTubers are the latest tap into this industry to grow their reach, and revenue.
“I think people are realizing that they cannot just stick to an elite audience speaking English," Tamil-speaking voice artist Barath Raj told us.
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and I have been closely covering the language service provider industry –– which has been booming as global streamers look to localize catalogues for subscribers around the world.
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Our story comes on the heels of the announcement in late February that YouTube has released the "audio tracks" feature to all users.
Piloted since 2021, the tool will now allow all creators to upload audio files in several languages to the same video.
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The strategy includes wiping fandubs, creating official dedicated dubbing channels, and hiring minor celebrities like the actor who voices Naruto in Japanese, and the Latin American-Spanish voice of Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man. Now, other YouTubers are following suit.
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A growing YouTube dubbing industry is helping creators like Mr. Beast reach tens of million of new followers.
and I profile the specialized dubbing
firms taking popular channels into Bahasa Indonesia, Arabic, Tamil and more.
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For , I explain how Chinese-made smartphones came to dominate the Indonesian market through 3 strategies: affordable prices, localized marketing, and corporate social responsibility to engender public goodwill.
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Not only is Indonesia the fourth-largest smartphone market in the world, it is also the place where people spend the most time on their smartphones: an average of 5.5 hours per day. And 70% those smartphones come from Chinese brands
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Exiled from Europe's last dictatorship: tech workers in Belarus have been forced to flee amid ruthless political repression.
Excellent reporting here from
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“Without Belarusian IT companies, there would be no Belarusian national revival, there would be no Belarusian revolt in 2020”
meets with tech exiles in Georgia and Lithuania – for : restofworld.org/2023/belarus-t
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Over 18,500 Russians have migrated to Argentina in the past year, thousands of them being young couples seeking to deliver their babies in Buenos Aires. and I reported on the Russian momfluencer phenomenon on social media.
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"Last month, over 30 [pregnant Russian women] entered Argentina every day, according to the migration office."
The momfluencers helping hundreds of pregnant Russian women move to Argentina restofworld.org/2023/russian-m via
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After a spate of violent crimes in Brazil, men are questioning if dating apps like Tinder are worth the risk.
& report for restofworld.org/2023/tinder-ro
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. details how political repression in Belarus has made thousands flee the country. With great photography by and
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“If I am 51 and she is 23, how can I not think I am being catfished for a possible robbery?”
Tinder robberies have men in Brazil on high alert restofworld.org/2023/tinder-ro via
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Congratulations to the 26 women selected for the 2023 Women’s Leadership Accelerator (#ONAWLA)! This inspiring group of changemakers represents a range of locations + expertise from broadcast + audience to digital safety + partnerships. Meet them all: bit.ly/3Y0kFVKShow this thread
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Why 23 Dead Whales Have Washed Up on the East Coast Since December nytimes.com/2023/02/28/nyr
Over the past 30 years, Belarus built an invisible IT empire.
A year into the Ukraine war, that empire is in total collapse — and the country's techies are fleeing in droves.
Absolutely fantastic reporting here from
restofworld.org/2023/belarus-t via
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The most high-profile AI chatbot from China is Baidu’s Ernie, which the company plans to integrate into its search engine, the same way that Microsoft has with Bing.
But don’t expect a simple ChatCPT ripoff, writes
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Ernie, the new AI chatbot from China’s Baidu, promises to be more than just a ChatGPT ripoff, writes for
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There has been a notable uptick in the usage of the term “MZ” in S. Korean news, entertainment and even politics in recent months. It seems there’s an increasingly negative/otherizing connotation attached to the word.
Q: In your country, how do your generation define MZ-ness?
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People on TikTok are paying elderly women to sit in stagnant mud for hours and cry. The trend ran rampant in Indonesia until the government stepped in
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"Another viral account paid someone to eat maggots."
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In the latest installment of social media platform dynamics incentivizing vile behavior
People on TikTok are paying elderly women to sit in stagnant mud for hours and cry restofworld.org/2023/indonesia via @restofworld
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In the latest installment of social media platform dynamics incentivizing vile behavior
People on TikTok are paying elderly women to sit in stagnant mud for hours and cry restofworld.org/2023/indonesia via @restofworld
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seems clear that if you give people cameras and the internet, they’ll keep reinventing Bumfights
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“Political messaging is such that people believe that CCTVs will lead to an increase in security.”
CCTV surveillance ≠ Crime rate
Read my report for
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"In India’s capital, New Delhi, crimes against women surged by more than 40% in the same period. All this while, the city had a network of 1,446.03 surveillance cameras per square mile — 26.7 cameras per 1,000 people."
restofworld.org/2023/cctv-crim via
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In the latest installment of social media platform dynamics incentivizing vile behavior
People on TikTok are paying elderly women to sit in stagnant mud for hours and cry restofworld.org/2023/indonesia via
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ASME Awards 2023: @restofworld nominated in Design category for “In the Dark,” restofworld.org/2022/blackouts/, “How Chinese Citizens Use Puns to Get Past Internet Censors,” restofworld.org/2022/china-soc, and “Welcome to the Ambaniverse” restofworld.org/2022/welcome-t #ASMEawards
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ASME Awards 2023: @restofworld nominated in Design category for “In the Dark,” restofworld.org/2022/blackouts/, “How Chinese Citizens Use Puns to Get Past Internet Censors,” restofworld.org/2022/china-soc, and “Welcome to the Ambaniverse” restofworld.org/2022/welcome-t #ASMEawards
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We're launching an inaugural Fortune Crypto 40 that will recognize leading companies in eight categories, ranging from TradFi to infrastructure, in the spring.
You can read more from below on the methodology and approach of the list:
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My friend Pete Reed was killed by Russian forces while trying to evacuate civilians in Bakhmut, Ukraine.
You should know a bit about the good he did in this world.
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Migrants and asylum are using an tool originally meant for gaming and ticket buying to gain swift access to the cruel and unusual punishment that is the U.S. Customs and Border Protection app. reports for
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