Mental health advocates Sanctus created Lifefaker.com, a satirical service selling ready-made packages of pictures that help people make their life look perfect on social media. The initiative aims to spread awareness about the relationship between social media and mental health.

If a social network’s members remain the same but everyone’s place is reshuffled, could it impact their quality of life for the better? Canvas8 spoke to Nicholas Christakis, Nudgestock speaker and Yale professor, to learn how our online and offline networks can be harnessed for positive change.

The GDPR rollout and Cambridge Analytica scandal have raised the public’s awareness of how their online data is used, abused, and profited from by brands. To help web users regain a sense of control over their personal info, Mozilla is helping them avoid trackers by default through Firefox.

The browser market is a placid one, with Google Chrome the last entrant to make a significant impact. But emerging from a year of testing, Vivaldi is a brand new player. Developed by the founder and ex-CEO of Opera, it offers a browsing experience for ‘the web’s most demanding users’.