Human Digital Twins (HDTs) have traditionally been conceptualized as data-driven models designed to support decision-making across various domains. However, recent advancements in conversational AI open new possibilities for HDTs to function as authentic, interactive digital counterparts of individuals. This paper introduces a novel HDT system architecture that integrates large language models with dynamically updated personal data, enabling it to mirror an individual's conversational style, memories, and behaviors. To achieve this, our approach implements context-aware memory retrieval, neural plasticity-inspired consolidation, and adaptive learning mechanisms, creating a more natural and evolving digital persona. The resulting system does not only replicate an individual's unique conversational style depending on who they are speaking with, but also enriches responses with dynamically captured personal experiences, opinions, and memories. While this marks a significant step toward developing authentic virtual counterparts, it also raises critical ethical concerns regarding privacy, accountability, and the long-term implications of persistent digital identities. This study contributes to the field of HDTs by describing our novel system architecture, demonstrating its capabilities, and discussing future directions and emerging challenges to ensure the responsible and ethical development of HDTs.

Dataspaces have recently gained adoption across various sectors, including traditionally less digitized domains such as culture. Leveraging Semantic Web technologies helps to make dataspaces FAIR, but their complexity poses a significant challenge to the adoption of dataspaces and increases their cost. The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) raises the question of how these models can support the adoption of FAIR dataspaces. In this work, we demonstrate the potential of LLMs in dataspaces with a concrete example. We also derive a research agenda for exploring this emerging field.

Imagine being able to forecast the effects of experimental treatments without putting a patient's life in danger. Or making a digital copy of a person's body, right down to the level of the cells, to help choose the best surgery. What if we could figure out the chances that a pacemaker will keep a person with congestive heart failure alive without the need for surgery? Welcome to a new world where digital twins make precision medicine and preventive care possible. It is easy to say that digital twins are digital representations of actual items.

A lot of conversation in business and leisure around the metaverse focuses on its entertainment and commerce possibilities. But that's the tip of the iceberg, when it comes to monetizing the metaverse. The market for industrial applications is nascent, but promises explosive growth as metaverse tech itself becomes more widely deployed and available. So, what is the industrial metaverse? Futurist Cathy Hackl describes the metaverse to Ericsson as the "spatial internet," a revisualization of internet data and connectivity using 3D rendering, virtual spaces and contextual information about your surroundings.

The pivotal role that the digital infrastructure plays in delivering critical societal, economic and governmental functions has become clearer than ever before as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is now a high level of awareness in both business and society that availability, reliability, affordability and sustainability are all essential aspects of the digital infrastructure that must be ensured in both the short and long term. At the same time, the cyberphysical convergence is picking up speed, highlighting the need for advanced network technologies to support use cases that blur the boundaries between physical and digital realities. The rapid acceleration in the adoption rate of digitalization during the pandemic would not have been possible without the existing capabilities of both the mobile and the fixed communications infrastructure. Going forward, 5G will be the main digital infrastructure for consumers with mobile and fixed wireless residential access supporting augmented/virtual reality and artificial intelligence (AI) based services.

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Everyone is familiar with IBM's leadership in IT, AI, and cloud services. It also happens to be one of the leading providers for Enterprise Asset Management software through its Maximo line of software and services. These tools help manage large machines, like factories, powerplants, and heavy equipment. Now, with the rise of digital twins, IBM is pivoting this business as an onramp to bringing intelligence, agility, and efficiency to a wide range of industries.

With the rapid adoption of Internet technologies, digital footprints have become ubiquitous and versatile to revolutionise the financial industry in digital transformation. This paper takes initiatives to investigate a new paradigm of the unified credit assessment with the use of federated artificial intelligence. We conceptualised digital human representation which consists of social, contextual, financial and technological dimensions to assess the commercial creditworthiness and social reputation of both banked and unbanked individuals. A federated artificial intelligence platform is proposed with a comprehensive set of system design for efficient and effective credit scoring. The study considerably contributes to the cumulative development of financial intelligence and social computing. It also provides a number of implications for academic bodies, practitioners, and developers of financial technologies.

Imagine Martha, an octogenarian who lives independently and uses a wheelchair. All objects in her home are digitally catalogued; all sensors and the devices that control objects have been Internet-enabled; and a digital map of her home has been merged with the object map. As Martha moves from her bedroom to the kitchen, the lights switch on, and the ambient temperature adjusts. The chair will slow if her cat crosses her path. When she reaches the kitchen, the table moves to improve her access to the refrigerator and stove, then moves back when she is ready to eat.

Health Passports are shifting digital twin tech to humans and the composable enterprise is making it possible for business to stay nimble during the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 influenced many of the 30 technologies in Gartner's 25th Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies report. Brian Burke, research vice president at Gartner, said that this was the first time in the history of the report that a new piece of technology reached 20% market penetration in less than a year. China and India are using Health Passport mobile apps to indicate the level of infection risk of the holder. Red is a confirmed case o f COVID-19; yellow means the person should be in quarantine; and green means free to travel.

Digital twins are everywhere, whether you realize it or not. They've been around for a long time in the industrial arena where digital representations of a plane or car in aerospace and automotive help engineers model and test systems without having to build a real prototype. Instead, imagine if a digital twin was an accurate digital representation of you? What possibilities would be opened up? Imagine a digital simulation that looked, thought, felt, and acted just like you. We're already starting to see companies build their own digital representations of you in health and fitness, shopping, and anytime you fill out a profile.