Tag: global
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The Taliban are gaining strength. Opium production has quadrupled. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/world/middleeast/afghanistan-war-cost.html more ›
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A previous version of the report, released by the Obama administration, highlighted the risk of a pandemic and the vast economic disruption it could cause — a prescient prediction in… more ›
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HSINCHU, Taiwan — Chuang Cheng-deng’s modest rice farm is a stone’s throw from the nerve center of Taiwan’s computer chip industry, whose products power a huge share of the world’s… more ›
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What it’s really going to change in the short term is who’s empowered to make the simulations of the future. In the national security sector, simulations are a $12B market… more ›
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This report provides information on the reporting period from January 2020 to December 2020. This report provides visibility into our content moderation processes including details related to: The tools we… more ›
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A few years ago, the Indian OSM contributor said, they received a call from the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamshala, inviting them to hold a workshop on editing Wikipedia. “[They told… more ›
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Processes of historical reinvention tend to accompany moments of great economic and social transformation, such as the one that we’re living through at the moment. They produce a new historical… more ›
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From a florist in Tehran to a chef in Bangkok, meet nine workers who turned their homes into makeshift offices during the pandemic. https://restofworld.org/2021/heres-what-working-from-home-looks-like/ more ›
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Giggles, eye-rolls and the occasional moral scold aside, porn is a gigantic industry that serves an equally enormous popular demand. The cavernous disparity between the demonstrably massive popularity of porn… more ›