Feature 24 February 2021 Inside Asia’s booming online learning industry Investors have poured billions of dollars into digital education platforms like Byju’s and Yuanfudao. But are students learning anything?
Q & A 18 February 2021 How Koo became India’s Hindu nationalist–approved Twitter alternative Aprameya Radhakrishna made Koo for local-language speakers. Overnight, Hindu nationalists drove its success.
Feature 18 February 2021 Technology and solidarity won’t save Myanmar’s protesters Young Burmese are using tech to organize against a military coup, but the junta has powerful tools to silence them.
Feature 18 February 2021 Four countries, one Clubhouse The buzzy audio app is most frequently associated with Silicon Valley, but it’s taking off everywhere from Japan to Nigeria.
News 10 February 2021 In Myanmar, one blackout ends, another begins The Burmese military government turned off the internet in most of the country. But in Rakhine and Chin states, it ended an 18-month blackout.
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.
Longreads 9 February 2021 How to bring a language to the future For decades, it was nearly impossible to type in Urdu online. Meet the people fighting to digitally preserve its script.
Ideas 8 February 2021 Narendra Modi’s hashtag problem India's government is at odds with the very platform that helped it rise to power.
Feature 7 February 2021 Ride to nowhere If ride-hailing giants Grab and Gojek come together, the new quasi-monopoly in Southeast Asia would have little incentive to improve working conditions.
News 2 February 2021 How misinformation fueled a coup in Myanmar After weeks of spreading lies about an election result, the Burmese military cut access to the internet, then took power.