Deep dive

In a world where data is rapidly becoming the most powerful weapon, Rocket Lab’s cooperation with foreign militaries - where they fulfil private contracts launching military-funded satellites from New Zealand soil...

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...

“Planned obsolescence” is a phrase right-to-repair advocates want banished from the language and increasingly they’re getting support from governments across the world.  The goal? To cut down an estimated 50 million metric...

Pavan Vyas is our quiet tech superstar. He arrived in New Zealand as an immigrant in the mid-90s, found he had a knack for coding and took computing at Auckland University....

After a decade of Facebook and Google hammering news organisations globally by effectively taking over the mobile advertising space while using its news content on its platform for little recompense, the...

Yes, you read that right - it may take a decade or so - but I’m calling it.  Facebook - the social media platform du jour for many, the one that helped...

Clearview AI, one of the high-tech surveillance tools used by New Zealand Police, continues to be mired in controversy. Canada has banned it and both Australia and the UK’s privacy regulators...

The most anticipated app in recent memory is the upcoming Covid Vaccination passport app which it seems will be called My Vaccine Pass. That’s the app we’ll need to download on...

It’s like something from a movie. The FBI, frustrated by criminals’ use of encryption services, decides to set up its own. That app, called Anom, was this week responsible for the...

IRL borrows Facebook functionality to a demographic that Facebook can’t reach.