There are only two local electric bus makers in Kenya: BasiGo and Roam. Roam predominantly makes EV bikes and only recently ...

The project, iTanong, is like a local version of ChatGPT, Peramo told Rest of World. Through a web page, users can ask ...

In 2024, Rest of World covered some of the biggest shifts in the tech industry that have changed lives around the world: the rise of AI, Chinese companies expanding overseas, the widespread adoption ...

Wellness tracker company MeMind created a tailor-made version of its app for the state to curb a suicide epidemic. The app’s AI diagnostic tool detects small changes in behavior patterns. Over the ...

For this year’s Day of the Dead, a Mexican funeral home and a beer company used AI to create animated photos of deceased people. The use of AI on images of the dead is unregulated in the country.

Former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was Latin America’s top Spanish-language livestreamer. His press conferences, viewed for 49 million hours in 2023 alone, allowed dozens of content creators ...

More than 20 influencers were elected into the Indonesian parliament this year. Influencers have the resources to contest polls, and are familiar to voters. Celebrities learn little about political ...

Karim Beguir is the co-founder and CEO of InstaDeep, a Tunisian startup that was acquired for $682 million by BioNTech.

Inside the emerging virtual-preaching economy in internet-obsessed Kenya.

Lessons include tips to attract customers with provocative poses and seductive words, and how to withdraw money from the platform.

Under the proposed bill, anyone from local content creators to Taylor Swift could be classified as a “digital news broadcaster.” ...