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Gaza Sky Geeks was the heart of the startup scene in Gaza. The pioneering tech hub trained thousands of young people in coding, digital marketing, design, and entrepreneurship. Then came October 7.
Read our new feature from @mrmhawish and @aselmousa:
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With Japan facing a labor shortage, convenience stores are having their shelves stocked by AI robots overseen by workers in the Philippines
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“If there is still a Gaza, there will continue to be a Gaza Sky Geeks.”
After two years of war, members of the pioneering tech hub Gaza Sky Geeks are surveying the damage and trying to figure out how they can rebuild
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Data centers are booming. Where are all the jobs?
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Economic uncertainty, thankless work, and angry customers: Inside the lives of the people powering China’s e-commerce industry
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“Our country has an advanced e-commerce logistics network, but this progress comes at the expense of workers at the lower end of the industry … It’s not because our technology is more advanced; it’s because we have an abundant supply of labor”
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TikTok claims human curation isn’t altering its For You feed. And yet, TikTok in Riyadh does not look like TikTok in LA: it reflects only what the government allows. Sexually explicit content is common, but using terms like gay and lesbian gets you flagged restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-…
Weekend #longreads: Gaza Sky Geeks was a jewel of the Strip's tech community. Then came war.
Read @mrmhawish and @aselmousa’s feature on the story of the world's unlikeliest tech hub and their hope for the future
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Electric cars depreciate significantly faster than gas vehicles. Case in point: For Tesla owners in the U.S., their 2023 Model Ys are worth 42% less than what they paid two years ago, while a Ford F-150 truck bought the same year depreciated just 20%
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Microsoft and Google say data centers will create thousands of jobs. But our analysis of permit filings show a much smaller number — mostly in security and cleaning, not skilled IT positions
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The author of the best-selling memoir “I Deliver Parcels in Beijing” discusses life, technology, and the future of work
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For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks was a model for how tech could transform the territory. Just days after October 7, its office was blown to pieces by an Israeli airstrike. Now, with a tentative ceasefire in place, it’s trying to rebuild
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“Some of the easiest, most lucrative places for TikTok to make money were wealthy markets like the Gulf that were unburdened by Western norms about privacy, human rights, and democratic self-governance.”
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Do data centers really create jobs? The permit for one of Microsoft data center in Chile shows it would create just 75 long-term positions over 30 years of operation
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The online shopping boom is built on the backs of millions of workers
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In the two years since October 7, hundreds of teachers, students, and founders involved with the tech hub Gaza Sky Geeks have been forcibly displaced and subject to extreme trauma. Some have been killed. Now the community is trying to rebuild
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Data centers are touted as engines of economic growth. But our analysis of permits shows that many facilities offer just dozens of positions, many of which are in security and cleaning rather than skilled IT jobs
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With its U.S. future in jeopardy, TikTok cozied up to Saudi Arabia and the UAE
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They were building a tech scene in Gaza. Then came the war
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In her new book, Every Screen on the Planet: The War Over TikTok, journalist @ebakerwhite charts the Chinese app’s meteoric rise. Read an excerpt on the company’s courtship of Saudi Arabia and and the UAE
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New on Rest of World: How TikTok cozied up to wealthy investors in Saudi Arabia and the UAE bit.ly/3XcfAvp