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India’s electric bus push has a deadly blind spot

2026-01-29 16:00:00

India’s big cities are learning that electric buses need trained drivers to handle them. Public electric buses in Bengaluru caused 18 accidents, six of them fatal, over 15 months ending...

Meet UpScrolled, the anti-censorship TikTok alternative

2026-01-28 19:00:00

Within hours of the deal for TikTok’s U.S. operations being announced last week, Issam Hijazi noticed a big uptick in users to his social media platform UpScrolled. That stream of...

When war destroys the internet economy

2026-01-28 16:00:00

Iran was ranked among the world’s rising startup ecosystems as recently as last year. A year later, it is in the middle of a conflict, and a weeks-long internet shutdown...

Death of an Indian tech worker

2026-01-27 19:00:00

On a warm night last May, Nikhil Somwanshi sent his roommate a WhatsApp message asking him to tell his family that what was about to happen next was an accident....

While politicians shape U.S.-China relations, their families turn to the stock market

2026-01-26 23:33:58

In April 2023, Texas Republican Representative Michael McCaul led an official visit by U.S. lawmakers to Taiwan, meeting with senior officials and business leaders to discuss ways to strengthen the...

Is AI a bubble? Davos leaders say no

2026-01-23 19:34:15

More than 84 world leaders, 800 CEOs, and thousands others gathered amid the Alps this week to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Artificial intelligence —...