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Shift - Living in the Digital Age

October 27, 2023

On TikTok, short clips inspire more than a billion people worldwide. But data protection agencies and governments want to know whether personal data is being collected by China to deliberately manipulate users.

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Shift — Living in the Digital Age

Can I use blockchain technology? Will artificial intelligence take over my career? What exactly is "Machine Learning"? These are some of the questions „SHIFT – Living in the Digital Age“ tries to answer.

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