Rina Chandran
Deputy Editor at Rest of World
Deputy editor @restofworld . Previously Thomson Reuters Foundation, Reuters, Bloomberg, FT. IWMF grantee. SOPA awardee. Aunt. Opinions my own📚🏃🏽♀️🧘🏻♀️🚂
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2 weeks ago |
restofworld.org | Rina Chandran
It is the world’s most downloaded ride-hailing app after Uber, and inDrive’s founder and chief executive Arsen Tomsky wants to go bigger. Since its founding in Yakutsk in Siberia more than a decade ago, inDrive has grown to be present in nearly 900 cities in Central Asia, Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere. Now, Tomsky has his sights on turning it into a super-app that offers multiple services including food delivery, groceries, and financial products.
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4 weeks ago |
restofworld.org | Gabriel Daros |Rina Chandran
Last month, Brazil announced it is rolling out a data ownership pilot that will allow its citizens to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint — the first such nationwide initiative in the world. The project is administered by Dataprev, a state-owned company that provides technological solutions for the government’s social programs. Dataprev is partnering with DrumWave, a California-based data valuation and monetization firm.
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1 month ago |
restofworld.org | Karen Hao |Rina Chandran
When Sonia Ramos was a child, she witnessed an accident that would shape the rest of her life. She was born into a mining family in Chile. Her father worked for an American copper company; she grew up among the children of the other workers. In 1957, a part of the Chuquicamata mine collapsed, killing several people and injuring dozens more.
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1 month ago |
restofworld.org | Michelle Kim |Rina Chandran
In her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Karen Hao writes about the Silicon Valley firms competing to be the first to reach artificial general intelligence and the damage they are inflicting on workers in poorer nations. The book comes at a time when OpenAI, Google, Meta and others are fast-tracking their AI projects amid rising competition from Chinese firms.
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2 months ago |
restofworld.org | Isra Fejzullaj |Rina Chandran |Michael Zelenko
Skype, the online video-calling service, is shutting down in May after more than two decades of service. For those of a certain generation, Skype changed everything. Before it launched in 2003, making international calls 📱 was prohibitively expensive and few viable digital alternatives existed. Skype offered users a cheap and easy way to call anyone in the world, skirting the draconian landline industry.
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At overburdened clinics in the remote Amazon, pharmacists use AI to clear prescriptions quickly and catch dangerous errors, Pedro Nakamura reports for @restofworld . https://t.co/pzv8Gmlii1
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In the robotaxi race, China is taking the lead over the U.S., reports @kinlinglo for @restofworld. https://t.co/ta7grkpr0q