Louise Matsakis

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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.

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

Feature 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.