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Louise Matsakis

Louise Matsakis is a senior editor at Rest of World. She was previously a staff writer at Wired Magazine. Before that, she was an editor at Motherboard, Vice’s science and technology vertical.

Photography by Yuki Kohara for Rest of World

News 30 April 2021

Masafumi Ito, leader of the Amazon Japan Union, sues for wrongful termination

His lawyers argue the tech giant unfairly fired him for his organizing activity.

Amazon's offices in Tokyo. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)

Report 27 April 2021

Union leaders in Japan say Amazon is weaponizing “performance improvement plans” to weed them out

The plans have long been controversial but garnered renewed attention after a member of the Amazon Japan Union was fired last month.

Employees offload and scan items from a truck containing shipment Daraz warehouse, Pakistan’s largest online shopping and e-commerce marketplace in Islamabad, Pakistan on April 16, 2021.

News 22 April 2021

Amazon shut out merchants from Pakistan, but they’re still finding a way onto the platform

The e-commerce giant is courting the country’s largest manufacturers, but smaller sellers must still use workarounds to reach customers.

News 26 March 2021

“We are getting less money after working more”: Why Amazon drivers are going on strike in India

The demonstration will be the first nationwide protest at the e-commerce giant.

News 9 February 2021

The mysterious photo of a purple flower that receives 78 million hits each day

How India’s TikTok ban may have inadvertently caused a random image to become extremely popular.

WUHAN, CHINA - MAY 06: (CHINA OUT) Senior students study in a classroom with transparent boards placed on each desk to separate each other as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19 at Wuhan No. 23 Middle School on May 6, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China .About 57,800 students in their final year from 121 high and vocational schools returned to campus on Wednesday in Wuhan, The city previously hard hit by the COVID-19 outbreak.(Photo by Getty Images)

News 25 January 2021

China is home to a growing market for dubious “emotion recognition” technology

A new report says the tools rely on junk science and have the potential to erode human rights around the world.

BEIJING, Jan. 16, 2021 -- A resident pays for goods at a neighborhood supermarket in the Xueyuanlu sub-district of Haidian District, Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 16, 2021. With the Chinese Lunar New Year approaching, Beijing's Xueyuanlu sub-district has adopted multiple methods to ensure vegetable supplies to its residents. (Photo by Ren Chao/Xinhua via Getty)

News 20 January 2021

The cutthroat war to dominate China’s grocery delivery industry

Community group buying is helping tech giants capture a valuable new market. But can neighborly trust be converted into brand loyalty?

Future Thinking 7 December 2020

The year of TikTok

Over the past 12 months, the video app has conquered the world. How will it handle the responsibility of being a global platform?

This photo taken on August 10, 2018 shows workers moving pigs out of a pen at a pig farm in Yiyang county, in China's central Henan province. - The powdery yellow mixture of soybean-based feed for pigs -- one-fifth soy -- has become pricier as the trade spat between China and the US escalates, with Beijing slamming US soybean imports with tariffs of 25 percent last month. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) / TO GO WITH China-US-trade-pork, FOCUS by Becky DAVIS

News 18 November 2020

Blockchain chickens and computer vision pigs

Rest of World spoke with Xiaowei Wang, author of a new book about how technology is transforming rural China.

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