Headline-making online data breaches have made people more aware of the measures needed for safe browsing – but that doesn’t mean they put this knowledge into action. The Web Authentication standard removes the need for passwords, instead using biometrics to keep information safe.

Tech startup Civic has taken one of our most beloved purchases, beer, and eradicated the need to carry an ID when you want to buy it. Using blockchain, this new tech hints at changes taking shape in the way we verify who we are in an increasingly online world.

Whether it’s to savour a memory or gain social cred on Instagram, everyone takes pictures – but what impact does it have on our experiences? Canvas8 spoke to Alixandra Barasch, associate professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business, to uncover the science of visual memories.

In Apple’s ad, FKA Twigs is imagined as a weary city dweller invited into a surreal dream world by HomePod speakers. Apple tasks its technology with understanding its users well – well enough to offer them a lifeline out of solitary city life, and transport them into the supernatural.