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Importance of Biotechnology for the Economic Development of Brazil

Karoline Frazão ALVES DE ANDRADE, SuelinABSTRACTThe article presents an overview of the economic impacts of biotechnology applications in Brazil. The work seeks to demonstrate how…

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A comment relating to the YouTube video ‘The Age of A.I.’

Having watched the video, I am deeply disappointed. There are examples of the use of AI, including a recreation of two existing persons. I will…

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AI and Human Failure: Blaming the Machine? | Brief

Another example of the principle known as diffusion of responsibility: blaming the machine. This is not about airplane autopilots but of machine intelligence and automatization…

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83 percent of Germans use online messengers | GermanPolicy.com

Almost every 16 to 24 year-old in Germany uses online messenger services. This is the result of a survey commissioned by the Federal Network Agency….

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New standards for intelligence service | GermanPolicy.com

by Thorsten Koch Patrick Sensburg (CDU), a member of parliament and security expert, supports the SPD’s demands to appoint a Bundestag Federal Commissioner for intelligence…

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Mass surveillance abroad by the BND legally inadequate | GermanPolicy.com

by Thorsten Koch The surveillance practice by the federal intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), regarding telecommunications by foreigners, violates fundamental rights. This has been decided by…

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Smartphone Tracking, or Contact Tracing | Context

Digital contact tracing creates location trails allowing for a supervising instance to know, in hindsight, whether two people were in proximity at the same time….

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Muslims on the Internet: The UK Example – The Islamic Ummah from Egroups to Electronic Pilgrimage | Context

Discussion forums were the first electronic Muslim spaces of communication. Nowadays, religious texts, counselling, interpretation and news dominate the Islamic presence on the internet, while…

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