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Cybersalon Year in Review 2020: From Games for Survival to Digital Sovereignty
2020 will be remembered for the damaging global impact of the Covid19 pandemic. Millions of people have experienced illness, loss of earnings…
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Who owns your face? – biometrics in your town
Live Facial Recognition is being deployed in many cities world-wide, but who really owns your face? Facial recognition tech is getting…
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Afrofuturism – Reclaiming Cyberspace
Jaron Lanier, the inventor of Virtual Reality noted that “who owns the future owns the presence” pointing at the magic power of…
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Reclaim your face – Facial Recognition in Urban Jungle
Facial Recognition tech is getting more accessible by the day, with urban applications varying from the wacky to the scary. Amazon Rekognition…
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1994 – From Cyberia Café to Digital London
September crept up on us this year, with no usual joyful Bacchanalia celebrations of Cyberia Café anniversary, except for a cosy, socially…
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Track and Trace or Duck and Dive – Covid19 App is here
Cybersalon.org Zoom Panel on the tale of Covid app in UK – 11th June 2020 “Gradually, then suddenly” is the famous description …
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The Future of Money
By Stephanie Rowe & Eva Pascoe The effects of Covid-19 have been felt far and wide across the globe, with widespread disruption…
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New DIGIBLOX Qualification Launched to Meet Demand for Digital Skills
New Erasmus + funded digital qualifications will provide the skills for a wide range of digital jobs Earlier this month, on June…
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How did we get to now – building Covid19 app Digital Privacy catastrophy one tech brick at a time
Overview The decade between 2010 and 2020 saw the convergence of three previously separate tracks – physical world monitoring, Internet technologies, and…
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Sri Lanka’s digital boom under Lockdown
Niki Gomez, a co-founder of Cybersalon.org moved back to her homebase of Sri Lanka, after 25 years in the UK. Sri Lanka…
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