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15 March 2021
Strangest sights on Google Earth
Mozilla Festival’s event ‘Strangest sights on Google Earth’ took attendees on a global tour through our laptop screens and highlighted a little known story-telling tool.
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15 March 2021
‘On the side of the Web’ Screening at MozFest
Digital Grassroots a youth- led organisation screens their short film ‘On this Side of The Web’ at this year's first virtual MozFest.
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15 March 2021
Developing fake news immunity
As misinformation has become more common in recent years, University of Liverpool researchers Elinor Carmi and Elena Musi led a session at MozFest 2021 that focused on being able to identify fake news using their Fake News Immunity Chatbot.
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15 March 2021
Netflix to trial crackdown on password sharing
Netflix has begun trialling a user verification feature in an attempt to reduce the number of ineligible viewers using the service.
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15 March 2021
Tim Berners-Lee says Internet inaccessible for too many young people globally
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who created the world wide web in 1989, has stated in a letter that too many young people do not have internet access, highlighting the importance of internet connectivity as a basic human right.
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15 March 2021
Deleting my Instagram
I recently took the plunge and said goodbye to my decade-old Instagram account, which some people see in this day and age as akin to cutting off a limb. Here’s my post-Instagram thoughts.
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12 March 2021
Preserving our heritage through website archiving
Like anything with immense cultural and historical impact, the internet should be archived for posterity. At this Mozilla Festival event, Thomas Preece explained the reasons for and strategies behind web archiving.
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12 March 2021
Investigating Xinjiang's network of mass internment camps
Architecture, satellite imagery and journalism coalesce to uncover China’s mass internment of Uighur Muslims, one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our times.
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12 March 2021
Contextualising AI
On the first day of Mozilla Festival 2021, virtual sessions held over Zoom meant that attendees from around the globe were able to see the different workshops and discussions taking place. Find out more about ‘Contextualising AI’ in this article!
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12 March 2021
Gender diversity in tech and trustworthy AI
With an all-female panel of accomplished women working in the field of technology, Mozilla Festival’s event ‘Gender Diversity in Tech and Trustworthy AI’ aimed to highlight the deep-set inequalities that govern the world of tech.
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12 March 2021
Censorship vs Moderation: talks with Dr Carolina Are
Dr Carolina Are, blogger, author and self-titled pole-dancing academic speaks out about how to effectively moderate social media content without affecting freedom of speech.
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12 March 2021
Creativity and the Brain
Art and science are often considered to be polar opposites, but Mozilla Festival’s ‘Creativity and the Brain’ event worked to unite them through the research of neuroscientist Fernanda Pérez-Gay Juárez.
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10 March 2021
Gaming’s Maestros — Where did game music begin?
We’ve all heard of Pac Man and Space Invaders, but where are the people that wrote the music for these iconic ancestors of modern gaming?
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9 March 2021
Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of ZeniMax Media approved by EU Commission
The purchase will see Microsoft take control of popular gaming IP including Fallout, Elder Scrolls and Doom.
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9 March 2021
Interactive 3D gallery space, 'this place [of mine]' launches
An interactive 3D gallery space designed as a virtual recreation of a Greater Manchester high street, ‘this place [of mine]’, has been launched to provide young people with a platform to share ideas about the future of their town centres.
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9 March 2021
Exploring Coding Stitching Culture
One of the first events to kickstart Mozilla Festival 2021 was a celebration of the global community of coding stitchers and embroiderers in a union of technology and art.
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8 March 2021
The paradox of #safetytips on Tiktok
#safetytips on TikTok have become a useful resource for women globally as it highlights the spectre of gendered violence that dominates the everyday realities of women and marginalised groups.
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5 March 2021
Google to drop personalised ad tracking after third-party cookies phased out
Google has said it will not develop new methods of tracking users for adverts after their current method is phased out. The company announced that they will remove support for third-party cookies in a move towards a ‘more privacy-first web’.