Aussie crowdsource study targets Google’s secret search algorithm

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We use it everyday, depending on it for quick, accurate information - around 38 million queries a minute - but what do we really know about the inner workings of Google’s...
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Alimetry: The Auckland startup that wants to digitise your gut

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Patients suffering from gastric dysfunction may soon have an alternative to invasive endoscopies and diagnostic procedures, thanks to a wireless medical device designed by an Auckland-based startup. Alimetry, a spinout of the...

Buying a car? Go electric or pay for someone else to

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No, Waka Kotahi’s “clean car discount” doesn’t reward tidiness, but it is a way to get more people into electric vehicles and support the government’s aim to be carbon neutral by...

What Spotify’s live audio app Greenroom is really like…

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Spotify joined the live audio game last week with Greenroom.  It’s done via a reskinned Locker Room app that Spotify bought in March for an estimated $50 million USD. It now joins Twitter...

Police put live facial recognition on pause – for now

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For once, not being up with the latest tech is a good thing - according to the authors of a new 85-page report on facial recognition technology by Nessa Lynch and...

What is Matter? And why it makes your smart home smarter

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There’s a perception that the Big Tech companies are in constant competition with one another - and most of the time that’s true - Apple taking a shot at Facebook in...

1/4 of New Zealand’s SMEs have been a victim of a cyberattack

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While cyber attacks on large corporations, like the recent ransomware attack on the Waikato DHB, make the headlines, smaller businesses are also in the sights of hackers. Almost a quarter of New...

Creators in the driver’s seat (as YouTube pays out >$43 billion)

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YouTube has announced that it has more than two million creators in its YouTube Partner Program and has paid more than $30 billion USD to creators, artists and media companies. "YPP continues...

Should Netflix pay for hogging ISP’s bandwidth?

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Whether it’s Squid Game, the new sensation Maid or just a catch-up binge on Selling Sunset, Netflix and other streaming services are hogging up ISPs bandwidth and costing ISPs money and...

Crypto wallets explained

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Ok, so after reading about it all year long and hearing tales of easy wealth and the future possibilities of the blockchain, DAOs and NFTs, you’ve finally plucked up the courage...