Horizon Blog

Minimal Intervention Distributed Account System (MIDAS)

In the social ‘messiness’ of the real-world, digital identities are not often neatly siloed within individual services and accounts. Instead they often intersect with each other, mirroring offline social interactions. […]


TANSEC study – call for feedback

The Tangible Security project (TANSEC) aims to offer a more secure and accessible means to control IoT devices in from outside the home. A common approach to securing end-to-end connectivity […]


Empowering Consumers by Identifying Hidden Consensus

Modern manufacturing methods make it ever more feasible to personalise products – but how precisely do consumers know what they want? Of course, this varies – but in practice people […]


Move fast and break things? or is it time for more reflective approaches to innovation?

Technology is developing with overwhelming speed. Innovation in the technology sector is the source of great benefits to humanity but conversely also great harm. Through enabling technology developers and researchers […]


Brain-computer interface technology – How long until our thoughts are commodified?

We are tracked across the internet. Our attention is quantified and sold on social media platforms designed to keep us compulsively swiping for the next dopamine hit. It is no […]