Features 14 June 2022 Meet the fact-checkers decoding Sri Lanka’s meltdown From protests to power cuts, Watchdog uses open source research to investigate Sri Lanka’s ongoing political and economic crisis. By Nilesh Christopher
Features 24 May 2022 Nothing could slow inDriver’s rise from Siberian startup to global Uber competitor. Then Russia invaded Ukraine InDriver's unique haggling feature has seen it expand from its roots in Yakutia to markets around the world. By Leonid Ragozin
Features 10 May 2022 Sea change Google and Meta’s new subsea cables mark a tectonic shift in how the internet works, and who controls it. By Andrew Blum and Carey Baraka
Features 12 April 2022 Tiny cars and massive lithium deposits: The unlikely quest to build electric vehicles in Bolivia Bolivian startup Quantum Motors makes tiny EVs aimed at the Latin American masses. Will they buy it? By Thomas Graham
Features 29 March 2022 Online shopping in the middle of the ocean E-commerce giants don’t reliably deliver to the remote islands of French Polynesia, so locals made their own online shopping service. By Tiare Tuuhia
Features 17 March 2022 A seis meses, la apuesta de El Salvador por el Bitcoin se muestra por lo que es Mientras el país se prepara para lanzar su “bono Bitcoin”, entrevistas con ciudadanos, economistas y tecnólogos revelan las grietas en la criptorrevolución salvadoreña. By Anna-Cat Brigida and Leo Schwartz
Features 15 March 2022 Six months in, El Salvador’s bitcoin gamble is crumbling As El Salvador prepares to launch its 'Bitcoin bond', interviews with citizens, economists and technologists reveal cracks in the country's crypto revolution. By Anna-Cat Brigida and Leo Schwartz
Features 8 February 2022 An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years. Can AI crack the code? Machine learning can translate between two known languages, but could it ever decipher those that remain a mystery to us? By Alizeh Kohari
Features 19 January 2022 India’s tech sector has a caste problem “My teammates tolerate me, but I will never be one of them”: Indian tech workers report prejudice and discrimination based on their caste. By Raksha Kumar
Features 14 December 2021 How Shein beat Amazon at its own game — and reinvented fast fashion By connecting China’s garment factories with Western Gen-Z customers, Shein ushered in a new era of “ultra-fast” shopping. By Louise Matsakis, Meaghan Tobin and Wency Chen
Features 30 November 2021 China’s queer internet is being erased LGBTQI groups found rare freedoms online, but this year, many were shut by censors. It feels like slowly being sanded down, said one member. By Lavender Au and Weiqi Liu
Features 23 November 2021 A young Argentine was caught in a drug-fueled celebrity scandal; 25 years later, Google won’t let her forget When a ’90s scandal ensnared an Argentine woman in the past, she sued Google for the right to be forgotten. By Lucía Cholakian Herrera and Leo Schwartz