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Digital currency
Digital currency, also called electronic money or digital cash, is money that exists only in electronic form, covering central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, cryptocurrencies, and tokenised deposits.
Digital Currency Group (crypto holding company)
Digital Currency Group (DCG) is an American crypto holding company founded by Barry Silbert in 2015, headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, and owner of Grayscale, Foundry, and Luno.
Digital data
Digital data is information represented as sequences of binary digits that computers store, transmit, and process; its meaning depends on the encoding, since the same byte can represent different characters.
Digital Devil Story (デジタル・デビル物語)
Digital Devil Story (デジタル・デビル物語), Aya Nishitani's 1986–1993 demon-summoning novel series from Tokuma Shoten, source of the Megami Tensei, Shin Megami Tensei, and Persona game franchises.
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (デジタル・デビル物語 女神転生)
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (デジタル・デビル物語 女神転生) is Atlus's 1987 Famicom RPG, the first JRPG based on a book, adapting Aya Nishitani's 1986 novel; it introduced demon negotiation and fusion and founded the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona franchise.
Digital diplomacy
Digital diplomacy, also called e-diplomacy or Digiplomacy, is the use of digital tools and techniques, including social media and data analytics, to pursue diplomatic objectives.
Digital distribution
Digital distribution: delivering games, music, film, and software over the internet without physical media; also called online or download distribution. Retail fell from ~80% of game sales in 2009 to ~10% in 2020; purchases are licenses, not ownership.
Digital divide
The digital divide, also called the digital gap, is the gap in access to and effective use of digital technologies such as the internet, including gaps in skills and outcomes.
Digital down converter
A digital down converter (DDC) is a digital signal processing block that selects a frequency band from digitized samples, shifts it to baseband, and reduces the sample rate.
Digital East Fund
The Digital East Fund, originally Earlybird Digital East, is a venture capital fund launched in 2014 for seed and Series A investments from the Baltics through Central and Eastern Europe to Turkey.
Digital economy
The digital economy, also called the internet economy, is the part of the economy based on digital technologies, worth $2.41 trillion, about 10% of US GDP, in 2021.
Digital Economy Partnership Agreement
The Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) is a standalone digital trade agreement signed by Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore, with a modular design that lets other economies adopt parts or accede.
Digital electronics
Digital electronics, also called digital circuits, is the branch of electronics that represents information with discrete binary values and processes it with logic gates and memory.
Digital elevation model
A digital elevation model (DEM) is a digital representation of the Earth's bare-ground topographic surface, excluding trees and buildings, used in flood modeling, road design, and topographic mapping.
Digital ELISA
The single-molecule array (Simoa) is a digital ELISA technology commercialized by Quanterix that counts individual enzyme-labeled protein complexes in femtoliter wells, roughly 1,000-fold more sensitive than conventional immunoassays.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), marketed as Digital, was an American computer company founded in 1957 that became the world's second-largest computer company and leading minicomputer maker.
Digital ethnography
Digital ethnography, also known as netnography, is a qualitative research method that studies culture and social interaction through participant observation and immersion in online communities, used most often in marketing and consumer research.
Digital Experience Monitoring
Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is a performance discipline measuring the availability, performance, and quality of user experience of applications, combining real-user monitoring and synthetic transaction monitoring; Gartner defined the category in 2016.
Digital Extremes
Digital Extremes, Canadian game studio founded by James Schmalz in 1993 in London, Ontario; maker of Epic Pinball, the Unreal series with Epic Games, Dark Sector, The Darkness II, and Warframe (2013, 85+ million players); Tencent-owned since 2020; developing Soulframe.
Digital factory
A digital factory is a network of digital models, methods, and tools for planning, implementing, and continuously improving a factory, defined by the VDI in the early 2000s.
Digital filter
A digital filter is a system that computes an output from a sampled, discrete-time input signal using arithmetic, classified as FIR filters with fixed responses and IIR filters with feedback.
Digital footprint
A digital footprint, also called a digital trail or data trail, is the data trail a person creates online, divided into active and passive footprints.
Digital forensics
Digital forensics, also called forensic computing, is the branch of forensic science that recovers and analyzes data from computers and mobile devices for legal proceedings.
Digital Fortress
Digital Fortress (1998) is Dan Brown's debut techno-thriller, set at the NSA, where cryptographer Susan Fletcher confronts an unbreakable code by Ensei Tankado that is actually a worm; noted for cryptography inaccuracies.
Digital Health
Digital health is the use of digital technologies to improve health, an umbrella term the World Health Organization applies to eHealth, mHealth, telemedicine, big data, genomics, and artificial intelligence.
Digital history
Digital history is the use of computers, software, and computational methods such as text mining, network analysis, and GIS to examine and represent the past.
Digital holographic microscopy
Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) is a label-free optical technique that numerically reconstructs holograms of microscopic samples into quantitative phase and amplitude images, notably of living cells.
Digital holography
Digital holography is an imaging technique in which a hologram is recorded on a digital sensor and reconstructed numerically, recovering both intensity and phase of the wavefield.
Digital Horizon
Digital Horizon is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Alan Vaksman, investing in fintech and enterprise software startups across Europe, America, and Israel.
Digital humanities
Digital humanities (DH), formerly humanities computing, applies computational methods to human culture, from Busa's 1946 Index Thomisticus to machine learning and generative AI, while debating its own critical and disciplinary identity.