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Malawi’s new farmhand: AI that speaks the local language

2025-10-23 18:00:00

Alifosina Mtseteka’s family has been farming for generations in central Malawi, but she recently ran into a pest infestation that had her stumped. The okra she grows along with beans...

A lithium bust leaves Latin American towns in the dust

2025-10-22 18:00:00

Tolar Grande, a windswept settlement perched at 11,500 feet above sea level in northern Argentina, once received little more than a trickle of visitors. Then, in the late 2010s, hostels...

The world needs more spaceports. Oman wants to help

2025-10-21 18:00:00

Oman’s dream for a spaceport sits in a swath of desert overlooking the Arabian Sea. If all goes according to plan, three separate complexes here will launch everything from small...

Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines

2025-10-20 18:00:00

Inside a multistory office building in Manila’s financial district, around 60 young men and women monitored and controlled artificial intelligence robots restocking convenience store shelves in distant Japan.  Occasionally, when...

EVs are depreciating much faster than gas-powered cars

2025-10-17 18:00:00

The resale value of electric vehicles is collapsing worldwide, hurting private owners and fleet operators. The crisis became especially apparent when BluSmart, India’s pioneering all-electric ride-hailing service, collapsed in April...

China, Taiwan, and the vulnerable web of undersea cables

2025-10-16 18:00:00

In February 2023, half a year or so before I visited, a couple of Chinese ships cut two domestic undersea cables running out from Taiwan’s main island. One of these,...