The quest to type Chinese on a QWERTY keyboard created autocomplete
This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age by Thomas S. Mullaney, published
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Culture
Technology is probably changing us for the worse—or so we always think
MIT Technology Review is celebrating our 125th anniversary with an online series that draws lessons for the future from our
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Deepfakes of the dead are a growing Chinese business
Once a week, Sun Kai has a video call with his mother. He opens up about work, the pressures he
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What tech learned from Daedalus
Today’s climate-change kraken may have been unleashed by human activity—which has discharged greenhouse-gas emissions into Earth’s atmosphere for centuries—but reversing
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Threads is giving Taiwanese users a safe space to talk about politics
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your
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Why Threads is suddenly popular in Taiwan
For most people around the world, Meta’s text-based social network Threads is a platform that they haven’t thought of for
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Why shiny, high-tech solutions won’t solve one of Africa’s worst crises
Hainikoye hits Accept and a young woman greets him in Hausa, a gravelly language spoken across West Africa’s Sahel region.
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Why Chinese apps chose to film super-short soap operas in Southeast Asia
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China’s next cultural export could be TikTok-style short soap operas
Until last year, Ty Coker, a 28-year-old voice actor who lives in Missouri, mostly voiced video games and animations. But
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