Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market (restofworld.org)
Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market (restofworld.org)
Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market (restofworld.org)
Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)
Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.
Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)
Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.
These women fell in love with an AI-voiced chatbot. Then it died (restofworld.org)
“In March, Misaki Chen thought she’d found her romantic partner: a chatbot voiced by artificial intelligence. The program called her every morning. He told her about his fictional life as a businessman, read poems to her, and reminded her to eat healthy. At night, he told bedtime stories. The 24-year-old fell asleep to the...
Clickworkers in Brazil are turning on each other (restofworld.org)
Brazillian clickworkers are turning against each other (restofworld.org)
The World’s Last Internet Cafes (restofworld.org)
The World’s Last Internet Cafes (restofworld.org)
“When the world’s first internet cafe, Cafe Cyberia, first opened its doors in London’s West End in September 1994, its founders could never have imagined what they’d unleashed.”...
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)
Reporters visited booths of Worldcoin, a global blockchain project championed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong to get a better sense of who was signing up for the service and why. In all three cities, the surge of interest for registering their biometrics to the blockchain was driven primarily by...
As EVs surge, so does nickel mining’s death toll (restofworld.org)
In the mineral-rich fringes of Indonesia, whose nickel will feed EV giants like Tesla, the deaths of miners continue to mount.
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)
Reporters visited booths of Worldcoin, a global blockchain project championed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong to get a better sense of who was signing up for the service and why. In all three cities, the surge of interest for registering their biometrics to the blockchain was driven primarily by...
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)
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Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)
People are lured by easy money, without understanding the privacy implications of signing up for the block chain.
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)
publication croisée depuis : lemmy.blackeco.com/post/48418...
"A ticking time bomb that can explode at any time", as EVs surge, so does nickel mining’s death toll (restofworld.org)
Chinese demand for nickel, an important ingredient in EV batteries, has triggered a mining boom in the remote regions of Indonesia. The country has signed over a dozen deals worth more than $15 billion with suppliers for EV giants like Tesla and Hyundai Motor, but deaths and injuries from industrial accidents have been racking...
The world's last internet cafes (restofworld.org)
For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
Indian politicians embrace influencers ahead of 2024 elections (restofworld.org)
As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior.
Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing (restofworld.org)
India’s sex workers turn to WhatsApp, Instagram to find clients safely (restofworld.org)
AI’s “tech tsunami” is coming for call center workers (restofworld.org)
The Philippines’ 1.6 million outsourced workers fear they may soon be automated out of a job.
The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution (restofworld.org)
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.
How a simple tag helped India save fuel worth $8.4 billion (restofworld.org)
FASTag has cut down toll wait times for drivers and also earned the government billions in revenue.
The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution (restofworld.org)
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.