A new tool tracks when the Chinese government blocks websites ...
WEB1 day ago · The Chinese government blocked ChatGPT’s domain on March 2, 2023, new research has found. Historically, tracking when exactly Chinese authorities blocked specific domains was difficult because researchers had to choose to test individual domains. But according to a newly launched platform, GFWeb, which granted Rest of World exclusive …
How InstaDeep became Africa’s biggest AI startup success
WEB3 days ago · InstaDeep is one of the few major AI startups based in Africa. When the Covid-19 pandemic ground the world to a halt, InstaDeep trained a large language model to accurately predict new, dangerous variants before they spread. In 2023, InstaDeep was acquired for $682 million by BioNTech, a German pharmaceutical company that created …
M. Z. Adnan - Rest of World
WEB2 days ago · M. Z. Adnan is a freelance journalist based in London. His writing on art and culture has appeared in The New Yorker, Wallpaper, Hyperallergic, The Juggernaut, and Vittles, among other publications. In 2018, he reported from northeast Italy on the trafficking of Pakistani migrants to Europe, for Dawn. He received a B.A. in History from ...
Why did Brazil ban Twitter? - Rest of World
WEB3 days ago · Experts say this online split between right- and left-leaning users in Brazil could prove problematic. Brazil’s Supreme Court banned X on August 30 after the company failed to comply with a court order to appoint a local legal representative. The decision was the culmination of a months-long feud between Elon Musk, X’s owner, and Brazilian ...
Netflix bets on Southeast Asia as Disney and Amazon pull back ...
WEB1 day ago · Netflix’s actions in Southeast Asia run counter to its streaming rivals Disney+ and Prime Video, which have both pulled back from original content in the region, though they continue to invest in South Korea and Japan. That leaves Hong Kong–based Viu and Indonesia’s Vidio as Netflix’s chief rivals in the region.
YouTube astrologers gain celebrity reading horoscopes in ...
WEB2 days ago · Pakistan’s YouTube astrologers saw an uptick in early 2020, when some began to post videos of predictions verging on the apocalyptic. In a video uploaded to YouTube in December 2019, Khan spoke of difficult times in the year ahead, caused by a solar eclipse visible in the subcontinent. “All I could see was darkness.
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