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BYD dominates the Chinese EV market. Now it's coming for the world.

It's not just the summer blockbuster that's hit a nerve.

An AI-voiced virtual lover called users every morning. Its shutdown left them heartbroken.

For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they're vanishing into history.

Digital avatars, or "metahumans," are now becoming an familiar sight in Southeast Asia.

Thousands of Chileans, illegally adopted during the Pinochet dictatorship, are now relying on tech to trace their biological families.

The one you're reading this in, for starters.

​​A viral trend imagines alternate timelines in which Western imperial nations never came to power.