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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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3 May 2021
BT to offer cheaper broadband to universal credit recipients
The Home Essentials package, which will launch next month, will offer fibre broadband to households in receipt of universal credit for £15 a month.
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7 April 2021
Yahoo! Answers to close down
A relic of an internet far different from the one we use today, Yahoo! Answers is to be permanently closed on 4 May 2021.
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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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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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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’.
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8 November 2019
Grant for the Web – Improving monetisation with open standards
The business models for monetising on the web have not kept up with the ways we want to create and share on the internet
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31 October 2018
Tim Berners-Lee on his latest work
The creator of the world wide web spent 30 minutes promoting the future of the internet, but was light on the details
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4 January 2018
An Xiao Mina, visual and digital artist with MozFest Artist Open Studio
An Xiao Mina, one of the artists in this year's MozFest Artist Open Studio spoke with me about her work in exploring the role of memes in today's internet culture and culture-at-large.
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10 November 2016
Vine is dead: when did it fall off the wagon?
With Vine announcing the closure of its mobile app it's time to look back on the popularity of their six second videos...