Inside a brightly lit office in Shanghai, Kim’s task for the week was to pretend he was opening the door of a microwave. Wearing a virtual reality headset and exoskeletons on his arms, he repeated the movement hundreds of times a day so that the humanoid robot next to him could learn it. On other […]
Donald Trump’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has unexpectedly boosted a Latin American e-commerce company’s stock. Shares of MercadoLibreiMercadoLibreFounded in Argentina in 1999, MercadoLibre is an online marketplace that also owns Mercado Pago, a leading payment and financial services app in Mexico and Argentina.READ MORE have gained over 10% on Nasdaq between January 3 […]
Between 2021 and 2024, India saw a surge of popularity in online gambling, as increasingly cheap mobile data and expanded access to smartphones fueled use of the games. Driven by concerns around illegal operations, Indian authorities summoned Meta and Google last summer to discuss their role in promoting gambling sites. In August, the Indian government […]
Two Chinese challengers to ChatGPT are set to go public this week. Zhipu AI and MiniMax will debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on January 8 and 9, respectively, ahead of U.S. giants OpenAI and Anthropic. The two U.S. giants behind ChatGPT and Claude are laying the groundwork to go public this year, Reuters […]
November 18 was supposed to be a routine workday for Rwanda-based entrepreneur Derrick Ikenga. But it turned out to be a nightmare he wasn’t prepared for. Cloudflare, a U.S.-based cloud services and cybersecurity firm, faced a massive global outage that day, taking down large parts of the internet, including operations of giants like X (formerly […]
Elon Musk’s Grok is under fire in India after its viral “bikini” trend. On January 2, India’s IT ministry issued a 72-hour ultimatum to X over its artificial intelligence chatbot generating “obscene” content — specifically, sexualized or manipulated images of women and, in some cases, minors. Indian authorities have asked X to enforce the required […]
We at Rest of World love a good chart. So much so that this year we launched Charts, a page dedicated to preserving all the original charts we put into our articles. In 2025, we used them to help visualize the year’s biggest global tech stories, on topics as diverse as Tesla’s struggles, China’s rising […]
2025 was yet another transformative year in the artificial intelligence boom. ChatGPT was the fifth most-visited website in the world, tech companies poured hundreds of millions into refining their models, and chatbots became woven into seemingly every part of society — from assisting with legal work to offering companionship to the sick and the lonely. […]
new video loaded: Former Roomba C.E.O. Reminisces on 2008’s Viral ‘Shark Cat’ Meme In conversation with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on the “Hard Fork” podcast, the former Roomba C.E.O. Colin Angle shares how YouTube’s viral shark cat brought him joy in 2008. By ‘HARD Fork’ December 23, 2025 Source link
new video loaded: It’s a Hard Forkin’ Christmas! transcript Back transcript It’s a Hard Forkin’ Christmas! The “Hard Fork” co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton sing an original, tech-inspired rendition of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” On a Hard Forkin’ Christmas, my true love gave to me 12 A.I. bubbles, 11 chimpanzinis, 10 Signal war […]