Over the course of the last decade, in response to significant pressure from the US government and other governments, service providers have assumed private obligations to regulate online content that have no basis in public law. For US tech companies, a robust regime of "voluntary agreements" to resolve content-related disputes has grown up on the margins of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Communications Decency Act (CDA).

The Internet is an incredible tool that can help amplify voices that may not otherwise be heard. But when it comes to making sure everyone can have access to this tool, we can’t downplay the power of human connections to overcome connectivity challenges.

In early 2000, two Paris-based, anti-racism groups sued Yahoo on the basis that its auction’s site was exposing French people to more than 1,000 objects of Nazi memorabilia. In May of that year, a French court confirmed the illegal nature of the sale under French law, claiming that the company had offended France’s “collective memory.” More importantly, the judge also ordered Yahoo to identify ways to block French users from its Nazi auction site or other Yahoo sites with content deemed to be racist.

Rebecca Elliott at Work in Progress: “Climate change is making the planet we inhabit a more dangerous place to live. After the devastating 2017 hurricane season in the U.S. and Caribbean, it has become easier, and more frightening, to comprehend what a world of more frequent and severe storms and extreme weather might portend for our families and communities.

Alex Rosenblat at The New York Times: “For Uber drivers, the workplace can feel like a world of constant surveillance, automated manipulation and threats of “deactivation”…

Anni Rowland-Campbell at NPC: “In his book The Code Economy Philip E. Auerswald talks about the long history of humans developing codeas a mechanism by which to create and regulate activities and markets.[1] We have Codes of Practice, Ethical Codes, Building Codes, and Legal Codes, just to name a few.

People are increasingly being warned about the dangers to one’s physical and emotional well-being of always being online. In this post, Sally Wyatt reflects critically on the metaphors of ‘use’ and ‘addiction’ applied to digital technology, but first examines some of the paradoxes associated with applying machine metaphors to the human condition. ‘Imagine you are…

Book by Waleed Ejaz and Alagan Anpalagan: “This book introduces the concept of smart city as the potential solution to the challenges created by urbanization. The Internet of Things (IoT) offers novel features with minimum human intervention in smart cities. This book describes different components of Internet of Things (IoT) for smart cities including sensor technologies, communication technologies, big data analytics and security….(More)”.

The Indian government's attempts to ensure that companies adhere to data localisation norms will spawn similar requests from other countries, Michael Dell, the founder and chief executive of Dell Technologies, said.
The blog post by Anand J. was published in VCCircle on October 17, 2018.

Technology is a boon, no doubt. But where can we, in ourdigital lives, draw the line between convenience and addiction? ET’s Divya J Shekhar finds out how the IT city is dealing with internet addiction and how collective social effort might help find the sweet spot.

A nivel global las patologías mentales son la primera causa de discapacidad tanto transitoria como permanente. Y Chile es un buen ejemplo de esta tendencia: entre 2004 y 2015, estas enfermedades alcanzaron el primer lugar del total de licencias indicadas, llegando al 27 por ciento del gasto total del país destinado a reposo médico. Sobre el aumento de licencias médicas asociadas a salud mental, su efectividad y los efectos negativos que tendría en los pacientes, habla en la siguiente entrevista el académico de la Facultad de Medicina, Juan Almonte.

"Si no se invierte en ciencia y tecnología, estamos condenados a una estructura social que va a continuar siendo desigual y que no va a poder ofrecer oportunidades de realización plena para su población", destacó este domingo el Rector de la U. de Chile y presidente del Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (Cuech), Ennio Vivaldi, en lo que fue la primera celebración de esta fecha mediante la cual la Casa de Bello llevó hasta Plaza Italia parte de la infraestructura del organismo público encargado de medir e informar la actividad sísmica del país.

Ante un escenario tan complejo en donde "la mitad de la población del mundo sufre consecuencias de problemas dentales no tratados", los profesores de la Facultad de Odontología Iris Espinoza y Jorge Gamonal, relevan que "las consecuencias de perder los dientes representan marcadas inequidades sociales en salud, debido a que las limitaciones para masticar, hablar y socializar impactan especialmente a las personas mayores y de una posición socioeconómica baja" ¿Qué hacer al respecto?

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Report by Michael A. Weber for the Congressional Research Service: “Widespread concerns exist among analysts and policymakers over the current trajectory of democracy around the world. Congress has often played an important role in supporting and institutionalizing U.S. democracy promotion, and current developments may have implications for U.S. policy, which for decades has broadly reflected the view that the spread of democracy around the world is favorable to U.S. interests.

The 18th Annual Global LambaGrid Workshop (GLIF 2018) was held on 18-21 September 2018 at the Kulturværftet in Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark. Kronberg Castle, located next to the venue, was immortalised as Elsinore in the William Shakespeare play Hamlet, but there proved to be nothing rotten with the state of high-bandwidth networking as 50 participants from 19 countries came to hear how these networks are facilitating exascale computing in support of biological, medical, physics, energy production and environmental research, and to discuss the latest infrastructure developments.

In zwölf Bildern versuchen die prämierten Nachwuchswissenschaftler, ihre Forschungsthemen visuell wiederzugeben. Bei der offiziellen Präsentation am 8. Oktober erzählten die Prämierten auch die Hintergründe und Geschichten hinter den Bildern.

Computer und Netzwerke haben das Leben grundlegend verändert. Doch nach Jahrzehnten rasanter Entwicklung sind die Grenzen dieser Technologie, die bisher mit immer weitergehender Verdichtung von Schaltungen durch immer kleinere Strukturen erfolgreich war, erkennbar. Daher arbeiten Forscherinnen und Forscher verschiedener Fachrichtungen an neuen Ansätzen. Einer davon ist der „Quantencomputer“.