Environmental emergencies in the Northwest are accelerating people's dependency on technology to navigate environmental disaster. With people looking to tech for solutions to daily environmental challenges, the civic role of Big Tech is being scrutinised at a local, as well as global, level.

As fake news continues to flourish across the web, people are looking to tech companies to take charge of the issue and make long-term adjustments to restore the credibility of online news. But with misleading media easier than ever to manufacture, how can trust be created and maintained?

Within the gaming industry, innovation is often discussed in the context of new hardware, with players and critics tending to focus on the aesthetic advances afforded by new graphics cards and virtual reality. But how might the introduction of blockchain tech reshape the sector as a whole?

Between the growing concerns around tracking on digital platforms and heightened surveillance due to the pandemic, people are thinking twice about how they converse online. With privacy top-of-mind, brands are exploring ways to get consumers to willingly part with their data – whether that’s by offering a monetary reward or being transparent about how this information is used.