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7 July 2021
New political debating app, Polemix Review
No more leaving politics at the door. Instead, political debating done right.
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7 July 2021
Interview with founders of new debating app, Polemix
“The app’s vision is to break echo chambers, making sure users always listen to both sides of polarising questions.”
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5 July 2021
Interview with the co-founders of London Performance Studios
We speak to Lise Bell, former Exec Director at the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, and visual artist Than Hussein Clark about the new spaces and wraparound support they are making available to artists as we look towards a post-recovery creative sector.
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2 July 2021
Pinterest becomes first platform to ban weight loss advertisements
The social media company, which revolves around the sharing of content through images and animated GIFs, announced a ban on all advertisements that promote weight loss through their language or imagery.
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2 July 2021
TikTok to increase video length cap to three minutes
The change was announced in a blog post by Product Manager Drew Kirchhoff, and will be made available for all users of the video sharing app over ‘the coming weeks’.
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1 July 2021
Voice Retrospects: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
‘Tactical Espionage Operations’ is what Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain aims to provide – and it does so in spades. In this Voice Retrospects, I take a look back at Hideo Kojima’s final entry into the iconic Metal Gear series!
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29 June 2021
How our Y7 voices impacted the G7
My experiences being involved with the Y7 and how our youth voice made history in policy-making.
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28 June 2021
Live streaming at a record-high as British artists export more music than ever before
The UK is the second largest exporter of music in the world according to the latest BPI report.
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26 June 2021
Brighton Fringe Review: We're All Strangers Here
Hitcher Encounters navigates digital cartography with ease, forging a well-trodden path through audio and dialogue.
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25 June 2021
EE to reintroduce roaming charges in EU from January 2022
The mobile network operator becomes the first in the UK to reintroduce roaming charges for those travelling to European destinations since the agreement of a trade deal between the UK and EU in December 2020.
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23 June 2021
Interview with G7 Digital & Tech Track Youth Forum Member, Peter Rigg
“I had no idea where my volunteering journey would take me, and that it has allowed me to raise attention to the youth voice across government and international organisations in a real way only speaks to the power of the youth voice!"
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22 June 2021
CogX - How Epic Games takes us from real to unreal
How Epic Game’s Unreal engine is set to plunge us into the Metaverse.
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21 June 2021
CogX - The heat is on: The greatest threat to our national security
Sweta Chakraborty: “The climate crisis is changing everything”. How climate is impacting countries’ national security.
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18 June 2021
CogX - Will 2030 be real? A discussion on Deepfakes
We’ve all been warned about deepfakes, but how real, and how imminent is the threat?
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18 June 2021
CogX - Building a digitally fit future: Big tech and accountability
Margrethe Vestager: “I think it is important that we do this right, that we do not accept technology for social scoring by the states, that we do not accept continuing biometric public identification in public space”
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16 June 2021
Navigating social media in an era of filtered information
In a world where people are overloaded with information on social media and the internet, how much of the content we consume is one-sided? Why is it important we try to access a range of different perspectives now more than ever?
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15 June 2021
Interview with G7 Digital & Tech Track Youth Forum Member, Blessing Maregere
“World leaders and business leaders are waiting for you to speak up and be involved. If we want to shape our future, we need to start now and build a future we want.”
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14 June 2021
4 takeaways from the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase
Take a look at our biggest takeaways from this year’s Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase. While the schedule of game releases is undoubtedly going to be hectic as 2021 draws to a close, the biggest winner by far is Xbox Game Pass!