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- The construction industry is short on human workers and ripe for a robotic takeover - Construction is one of the least-digitized industries in the world, and its productivity is suffering. https://www.recode.net/2017/6/6/15701186/robots-construction-homes-technology-drones-building-automation-productivity 3 comments technology
- 'Digital and human rights advocates warn that India has perfected the use of regulations to stifle online dissent' https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/08/india-twitter-online-censorship/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk5NDE5NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzAwODAxOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTk0MTk2MDAsImp0aSI6IjYwZTg0OTQ3LTNhOGUtNGRkNS05NmY1LWJhOTFkZGIyNGUxOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93b3JsZC8yMDIzLzExLzA4L2luZGlhLXR3aXR0ZXItb25saW5lLWNlbnNvcnNoaXAvIn0.3jJo-pvEirr81U0QQl4Gb8GPGowdMsL9LlOiuRUFxK8 18 comments india
- How IoT and Blockchain May Affect Digital Humans in the Metaverse https://readwrite.com/how-iot-and-blockchain-will-affect-digital-humans-in-metaverse/ 10 comments cryptocurrency
- The goal of central bank digital currencies is complete control over humanity https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/cbdcs-goal-is-complete-control-over-humanity 143 comments cryptocurrency
- How Artificial Intelligence Will Make Digital Humans Hollywood’s New Stars https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/how-artificial-intelligence-will-make-digital-humans-hollywoods-new-stars-1031553/ 30 comments technology
- Transhumanism: Will Humans Become Digital in the Future https://futurside.com/transhumanism-will-humans-become-digital-in-the-future/ 4 comments technology
- Artificial intelligence is being used to digitally replicate human voices https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1073031858/artificial-intelligence-voice-cloning 31 comments technology
- I regret to inform you that Digital Human as a Service (DHaaS) is now an acronym https://www.theverge.com/tldr/22821377/digital-human-as-a-service-kddi-mawari 7 comments futurology
- Europe's Digital Services Act: On a Collision Course With Human Rights https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/europes-digital-services-act-collision-course-human-rights-0 6 comments europe
- Digital Human Production Ramps Up For Metaverse https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/27/22746679/soul-machines-metaverse-digital-humans-labor 6 comments futurology
- South Korea has a huge problem with digital sex crimes against women says Human Rights Watch https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/17/human_rights_watch_south_korea_digital_crime_against_women_report/ 10 comments worldnews
- Samsung’s ‘artificial human’ project definitely looks like a digital avatar - Circuit Breaker https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2020/1/5/21050288/samsung-neon-artificial-human-digital-avatar-project-leaked-video 4 comments worldnews
- Parliamo delle Digital Humanities https://www.reddit.com/r/italy/comments/c3o2fz/parliamo_delle_digital_humanities/ 21 comments italy
- A Saudi Arabian organisation has apologised for tweeting a digitally altered image that showed a plane flying towards Toronto’s CN Tower – in an apparent reference to a 9/11-style attack – over Canada’s call for the release of detained human rights activists in the kingdom. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/saudi-arabia-canada-toronto-cn-tower-9-11-photo-apology 9 comments worldnews
- Developing a Digital Economy for Openness and Shared Benefits — Tim Cook. China Internet Must Have Security, Humanity, Apple CEO Tells China https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-03/internet-must-have-security-humanity-apple-chief-tells-china 5 comments apple
- Scientists construct digital video of human brain activity http://news.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/ 3 comments science
- Digital dependence 'eroding human memory' http://www.bbc.com/news/education-34454264 5 comments worldnews
- Digital camera software lets humans see like an animal http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/digital-camera-software-lets-humans-see-like-an-animal-10445372.html 3 comments technology
- Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/03/06/1218772110 3 comments science
- Google has renewed its commitment to digital humanities. Don't click the link to Venetus A if you use IE. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/our-commitment-to-digital-humanities.html 6 comments programming
- The digital age of rights - "columnist Bill Thompson argues that cutting off access to the net could infringe human rights." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8068463.stm 3 comments reddit.com
- Porn censorship laws and age checks breach human rights and threaten privacy, says UN official: 'said that amendments to the UK’s Digital Economy Bill could violate international law on freedom of speech.' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/porn-censorship-age-checks-human-rights-threat-to-personal-privacy-un-official-david-kaye-claire-a7526326.html 497 comments worldnews
- "Over the telephone, in jail and online, a new digital bounty is being harvested: the human voice. Businesses and governments around the world increasingly are turning to voice biometrics, or voiceprints, to pay pensions, collect taxes, track criminals and replace passwords." http://www.seattlepi.com/business/technology/article/millions-of-voiceprints-quietly-being-harvested-5818766.php 14 comments technology
- TIL about Wim Klein: CERN's human calculator, a genius mental arithmetician, former circus performer, who could calculate complex operations in a matter of seconds, and notably calculated the 73rd root of a 500-digit number in 2 minutes and 43 seconds (video of his last "performance" in comments). http://home.web.cern.ch/cern-people/updates/2012/12/remembering-wim-klein 13 comments math
- Reverse engineering the human brain: Neuroscientists say that within a decade it will be possible to create a digital model that replicates all functions of the human brain http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=the-ultimate-hack-reverse-engineeri-2009-09-08 17 comments cogsci
- In the age of deepfakes, could virtual actors put humans out of business? -- "In film and video games, we've already seen what's possible with 'digital humans'. Are we on the brink of the world's first totally virtual acting star?" https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/03/in-the-age-of-deepfakes-could-virtual-actors-put-humans-out-of-business 32 comments cogsci
- "There is no legitimate technical reason for Bitcoin not to be a global digital currency for every human being, even in the absence of decentralised layer 2 solutions." https://medium.com/@drwasho/there-is-no-legitimate-technical-reason-for-bitcoin-not-to-be-a-global-digital-currency-for-every-c7bd55c11a07 9 comments btc
- 3D embryo atlas reveals human development in unprecedented detail. Digital model will aid vital research, offering chance chance to explore intricate changes occurring in the first weeks of life. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/24/3d-embryo-atlas-reveals-human-development-in-unprecedented-detail 417 comments science
- Germany and Brazil are pushing the United Nations to be tougher on spying by beefing up an earlier U.N. resolution raising concerns that mass surveillance, interception of digital communications and personal data collection could harm human rights http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/11/06/spying-un-idinkbn0iq29c20141106 4 comments worldnews
- "There is no neurological evidence to suggest that the internet is more effective at 'rewiring' our brains than other environmental influences." (from the report, The Impact of Digital Technologies on Human Wellbeing) http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/offbeat/parents-fear-web-rewires-brain-16019127.html 11 comments cogsci
- "delete every digital trace of any menstrual tracking. Please." When data freely given becomes dangerous (BBC Digital Human podcast) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001kgr3 73 comments privacy
- Hacking Team hack casts spotlight on murky world of state surveillance | The recent dump of the company’s private documents revealed the blurred moral lines of ‘digital mercenaries’ providing software that could violate human rights http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/11/hacking-team-hack-state-surveillance-human-rights 11 comments technology
- DNA Gets Artificial Upgrade to Store Humanity's Boundless Digital Data - Scientists added seven new letters to the existing nucleotide alphabet, opening the door for extreme levels of data storage capacity. https://www.cnet.com/news/dna-gets-artificial-upgrade-to-store-humanitys-boundless-digital-data/ 10 comments technology
- Science AMA Series: I’m Marko Russiver, founder of Guaana, a scientific collaboration platform that is giving 10% of the company to 100,000 scientists worldwide to define universal format for scientific projects with uniform digital footprint that is human and machine readable, AMA https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/50sure/science_ama_series_im_marko_russiver_founder_of/ 246 comments science
- ‘Digital welfare state’: big tech allowed to target and surveil the poor, UN is warned - UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty says in devastating account big tech companies are being allowed to go unregulated in ‘human right free-zones’ and not held accountable https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/16/digital-welfare-state-big-tech-allowed-to-target-and-surveil-the-poor-un-warns 4 comments worldnews
- The UNs’ top human rights official says her office sees strong evidence that gov'ts on every continent are hiding their increasing reliance on private companies to snoop on citizens’ digital lives. It warns that mass surveillance is becoming “a dangerous habit rather than an exceptional measure.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/un-nations-hide-rise-in-private-digital-snooping/2014/07/16/350ac6e4-0cd2-11e4-bd4e-462c357f0998_story.html?tid=rssfeed 720 comments technology
- Face of the future rears its head: a virtual “talking head” which can express a full range of human emotions and could be used as a digital personal assistant has been developed by researchers http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/face-of-the-future-rears-its-head 3 comments technology
- Elon Musk and a group of high-tech heavyweights have teamed up to launch a new research non-profit called OpenAI. OpenAI’s mission is “to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.” http://www.pcworld.com/article/3014249/robotics/elon-musk-and-silicon-valley-masterminds-join-forces-to-keep-robots-from-killing-us-all.html?#tk.rss_gadgets 11 comments worldnews
- George Washington's Incredible Garbage Dump - "One evocative artifact after another." "The Mount Vernon Midden website is more than an e-museum, it’s a digital humanities effort to present the individual artifacts in layers of both archaeological & historical context." http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/george-washington-s-incredible-garbage-dump?666 9 comments history