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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

Cars That Think

Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. So your book takes on a much broader topic, the datafication of our daily lives and the human rights implications of that phenomenon. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.

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Another Exclusive Greenius Video: 350.org’s Bill McKibben on Biking and the SBBC

Creative Greenius

Bill McKibben signs his new book "Eaarth" at the L.A. Times Book Festival (photo by Debra Bushweit Galliani). org at the same table author, Bill McKibben , was signing copies of his new book “Eaarth.&# What I dug most was the way Bill personally connected with each person who had a book for him to sign.

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QOTD: Dealing With The Metric System

The Truth About Cars

It's also something that was already on my mind long before I booked this vacation since I am an American working for a Canadian company. I personally can fairly quickly translate kilometers and kilometers per hour into miles and mph, but god help me if I try to quickly convert Celsius to Fahrenheit or vice versa.

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Zepto in talks for USD 300 mn raise at USD 2.5-3 bn valuation – ET Auto

Baua Electric

billion when it turned unicorn last year, people aware of the conversations said. The new fundraise plan and contours will be discussed in a board meeting later this month,” a person aware of the matter said. Zepto has about 340 dark stores and over 200 of them are Ebitda positive, according to a person who has reviewed the financials.

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Denied! Why the bonkers BYD Yangwang U9 electric hypercar has been locked out of Australia

EV Central

READ MORE: Ferrari SF90 XX Stradale and Spider PHEVs READ MORE: Lamborghini LB744 supercar gets three-motor PHEV … with a V12 READ MORE: Australian order books open for $449,500 McLaren Artura plug-in hybrid 2023 BYD Yangwang U9 supercar. seconds But with Chines pricing set at the equivalent of $240,000, demand will obviously be limited.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

Cars That Think

This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew.

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Remembering Roberto Saracco, President of EIT Digital

Cars That Think

He authored or coauthored more than 100 papers and 14 books, including The Disappearance of Telecommunications , published in 2000 by IEEE Press. Every conversation with him was a journey, where words were not just sounds, but bridges to a deeper understanding. In our conversations, Roberto truly shined.

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