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In the past week, the Asia Pacific nation of Taiwan had its fifteen minutes of fame with American audiences. It was not due to the fact that Taiwan is on the cusp of legalizing same-sex marriage—the first in Asia if if does happen—but due to a simple phone call between its president Tsai Ing-wen and […]

For many Chinese people, the less time they can spend in a funeral home, the better. Since these places are often associated with bad luck (不吉利 or bu jili in mandarin), one Hong Kong company is using virtual reality to help families choose a funeral home without having to step foot in one. It’s one […]

Talk about a bad first day. Uber said today (Dec. 14) that it had begun picking up passengers in its self-driving cars in San Francisco, despite failing to get a permit for autonomous vehicle testing from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. It is the second city where Uber has introduced autonomous cars through its […]

Uber announced this morning that it was putting self-driving cars into service for riders in San Francisco. The company deliberately failed to obtain a permit for autonomous vehicle testing from the California Department of Motor Vehicles, arguing that because its cars still need to be monitored by humans and are not truly driverless, the state’s […]

Donald Trump held a meeting today with a group of Silicon Valley giants, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, SpaceX and Tesla’s Elon Musk and Alphabet’s Larry Page. While the meeting’s seating chart might offer a clue as to how much influence each tech exec will have on the president-elect, Trump’s praise and body language clearly singled […]Read More

It was a quiet, damp Tuesday morning in Chennai. Cyclone Vardah had blown through Chennai on Monday, leaving behind a trail of destruction, including 10 dead and massive damage to property. By the next morning, the calm after the storm had settled over the city. Residents slowly began to trickle out of their homes to […]

If Apple Inc is serious about India as a market, then it is not evident in its product pricing. Most of Apple’s bestselling devices cost more here than in other major Asian countries, according to Linio’s Technology Price Index for 2016, based on their average prices in 71 countries. Linio is a Rocket Internet-backed Latin […]

Here’s a year-end accolade for the world’s largest democracy and, some say, rising global superpower: Indians are the most ignorant people on the planet. In 2016, India is ranked right at the very top of Ipsos Perils of Perception Survey, which “highlights how wrong the public across 40 countries are about key global issues and […]Read More

How big is your country’s Muslim population? The answer seems to stump Americans—and the majority of the world. As part of polling firm’s Ipsos Mori annual “Perils of Perception” (pdf) report, Americans were asked to estimate what percentage of the US population is Muslim. The average answer was 17%, which is 17 times higher than […]Read More

Arianna Huffington can’t stop working. But she’d really like you to try. The former Huffington Post chief famously collapsed from exhaustion in 2007, then had an epiphany, took up meditation and yoga, and wrote a best-selling book. Thrive, released in 2014, positioned Huffington as one of the nation’s most vociferous workplace well-being evangelists. This April, […]Read More

A starfish larva measuring just one millimeter long hunts for food. A faucet snail takes its first steps. These and other mesmerizing images are among those featured at the Small World In Motion Competition, essentially a film festival for anything that can be shot through a microscope. The contest is six years old, and has […]

The results of the 2016 US election have sent pundits and analysts scrambling to figure out how the Republican sweep will impact the fate of president Barack Obama’s signature reforms, including the Dodd-Frank Act and the Affordable Care Act. But going forward, it will be just as important to track GOP efforts to alter how […]