Police Pursue New DNA Leads in 1980 Case
Forty-five years ago, Alicia O’Reilly was tragically raped and murdered in her Avondale family home.
Technology
New Designer DNA by the Wellcome Trust
We don’t need to experiment on, or alter our genomes: we need to stop inducing epigenetic changes that are making us all ‘dis-eased’.
Encryption: A Matter of Privacy and a Free Society
Digital backdoors must be recognised as a threat to your privacy, security and, most importantly, freedom.
Understanding Why We Fear AI
It’s not the technology that bothers us. It’s what the technology reveals about who we are.
NZ First Does Not Support the Gene Therapies Bill
Thank you Shane, Winston, and everyone within NZ First.
Why ‘Planned Obsolescence’ Is Pretty Great, Really
They don’t make ’em like they used to, for a good reason.
This Faith in Biotechnology and AI
The risks to the whole structure of Western civilisation should be obvious, but somehow we are sleepwalking to disaster. We need to wake up.
This Threat Has Evolved, so Should We
We must act not out of fear, but foresight. The jihadist genie is not gone. Whether we contain it – or ignore it again – is a matter of political will and strategic maturity.
Mean Girls Get a Heaping Dose of Their Own Medicine
Women who secretly doxxed and defamed men get exposed.
Why They Want (And Will Get) CBDCs
If the world is on track to reach 10 billion by 2080, and degeneracy is the default mode of human existence, what’s your alternative for organising all those people?
A Brand New Technology to Spray on All of Our Crops
You would think that years and years of testing would be required before something like this is ever allowed to be released. But in our day and age, new technologies are often rushed to market as rapidly as possible.
Open Letter to the Hon Winston Peters and NZ First MPs
It is sensible to await the consideration of the Royal Commission before taking steps which will enshrine automatic approvals and emergency use of gene technology in NZ law.
NZ Research Could Slash Chemical Use
Early results from the study suggest that in some cases, fungicide use could be reduced by up to 80 per cent.
Auckland Protest Over Gene Tech Bill
Auckland will see a peaceful protest this Saturday as advocacy group GE Honesty rallies opposition to the Government’s controversial Gene Tech Bill.