The Filipino AI chatbot launching in 2025 to support local …
Dec 23, 2024 · ChatGPT impressed millions of internet users when it was first launched in December 2022. To Filipino Elmer Peramo, though, it felt familiar. After typing in some prompts and seeing the artificial intelligence chatbot’s responses, he noticed the technology was similar to a project he’d been working on with his team at the Advanced Science and Technology Institute, a government agency.
How WhatsApp became an unstoppable global cultural force
Dec 10, 2024 · In Bangladesh, matchmaking is so popular on the platform that some have nicknamed it “Halal Hinge.”In India, WhatsApp has 400 million monthly active users; a 2022 study by the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford showed that more than half the population trusted WhatsApp as a news source. In Nigeria, WhatsApp TV broadcasts entertainment, cooking, and sports to people directly from ...
Crunchyroll grows in India with a low monthly subscription price
Aug 15, 2024 · Ashwath Nair’s obsession with anime started in the early ’90s, when the anime show Robotech first aired on an Indian television channel. Over the years, he fell in love with the diverse genres, complex storylines, cinematography, and the unique art style of anime.
China’s biggest AI model is challenging American dominance
Sep 23, 2024 · So far, the AI boom has been dominated by U.S. companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta. In recent months, though, a new name has been popping up on benchmarking lists: Alibaba i Alibaba Alibaba, founded in 1999 by Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma, is one of the most prominent global e-commerce companies that operates platforms like …
Tech’s growing environmental impact in 2024 - Rest of World
Data centers and EV factories mean jobs for some, and environmental fears for others. Catch up on the stories shaping tech and the environment around the world this year.
Grab challenges Google Maps in Southeast Asia with hyperlocal …
Nov 13, 2024 · GrabMaps coverage in Jakarta over a year between 2019 and 2020. Grab. The data from drivers, consumers, and merchants in more than 500 cities in Southeast Asia has helped add more than 800,000 kilometers of missing roads to OpenStreetMap, the open-source mapping platform, according to Grab. Grab drivers contribute about …
EV battery swapping gains momentum in China - Rest of World
Apr 3, 2024 · China is combating EV infrastructural issues like long wait times for charging and sparse chargers in rural areas with battery swapping. EV maker Nio is leading the battery swap trend, but more Chinese EV companies and battery makers are joining in …
2024’s must-read EV stories - Rest of World
DIY EV conversions, e-rickshaws, African e-bike giants: The world of electric vehicles is way more than just Tesla and BYD. Get plugged in on the year’s biggest EV stories.
Rest of World - Reporting Global Tech Stories
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 in …
2024 in photos about global technology - Rest of World
A global vision of the surprising, poignant, and dramatic ways technology affected our lives in 2024.