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Arizona wants Taiwan’s investors to think beyond chips

In July, I sat among roughly 100 people in a packed conference room in Taipei as a speaker highlighted the industrial parks and tax rates of an American city nearly...

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The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) fabrication plant in Phoenix, Arizona.
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The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns

Governments that deploy internet shutdowns to thwart protesters have struggled to clamp down on offline messaging apps. India’s recent response to Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat suggests that battle is entering a...

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Demonstrators take part in a protest rally organised by the Cockroach Janta Party and various Left student organisations against the NEET paper leak, demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in Kolkata, India. (Photo by Avijit Ghosh/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution

At the turn of the millennium, India became the global hub for medical transcription. With fiber optic cables laid in the 1990s, American hospitals found it cheap and efficient to...

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An archival photo of a computer lab in the Herbert V. Manning Library on the campus of Claflin University
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