Hundreds of posts spreading misinformation about Covid-19 are being left online despite the “dangerous” material being reported to social media giants. A group of young volunteers scoured social media for coronavirus misinformation between April 20 and May 26 but, after reporting 649 posts that experts believe contravene the platforms’ own standards, fewer than one in 10 were […]

An Ickonic Original Film The Technology Revolution that began with the dial up internet in 1988 has changed the World more than you could possibly explain to someone who hadn’t witnessed it, people are now interacting with Technology every second of the day, but has that come at a price? The Social landscape of the […]

—Freedom includes the natural right to resist and reject any technology that endangers life. Merriam-Webster: “nanobot-a microscopically small robot: a robot built on the scale of nanometers.” Technocracy is the engineering of civilization to make it resemble a machine in which all the parts fit. And that includes humans. It is the preferred method of […]

These are the days. These are the days when men and women accept draconian measures as if they were trifles. The nation and the world come grinding to a halt, and it is just another “interruption.” In 1776, there was a revolution against restraints from a foreign power. Now there is bleating from domestic governors […]

Norway’s health authorities said on Monday they had suspended an app designed to help trace the spread of the new coronavirus after the national data protection agency said it was too invasive of privacy. Launched in April, the smartphone app Smittestopp (“Infection stop”) was set up to collect movement data to help authorities trace the […]

Before Bitcoin became the newest trend for silicon valley bros, it was a tool for hackers and revolutionaries who wanted to undermine the banking system. In fact, this was the original vision of the cryptocurrency’s mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto, and the group of anarchist hackers called “cypherpunks” that developed the technology. It appears that this […]

n their efforts to contain the spread of the pandemic, governments around the world are rolling out body-worn devices (“wearables”) to assist in fighting the virus. Some governments want a technological silver bullet to solve the public health crisis. But many of the tools aimed at solving problems come with a host of other problems that […]

The company responsible for creating a network of police snitching apps in the U.S. and Canada is trying to convince the public to use a new app. Want to report your neighbor for not social distancing, report them for being a George Floyd protester, or perhaps you have seen something suspicious? Chances are pretty good […]

There could be more than 30 alien civilisations in our galaxy, researchers have found in a major study. A new paper looked to understand how many planets in our neighbourhood could be home to alien life, by assuming that life develops on other planets in a similar way to how it develops on Earth, and matching that […]