Deep dive

New Zealand has become the first nation in the world to have all of its local Council’s join the Smart Cities Council (SCCANZ). This means that councils across the country will be...

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...

Even those of us who follow the travails of Facebook closely were rocked earlier this month by the revelations uncovered by ex-Facebook employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen. Her testimony, and the internal...

RUSH Digital’s CTO and founder Danushka Abeysuriya has watched with growing horror the recent spate of cybersecurity attacks directed at New Zealand businesses. He doesn’t usually write content focused on helping everyday...

Maybe it was Covid-fatigue or that strange emotion Kiwis seem to get when Big Tech deigns to notice us - but the announcement last week that Amazon Web Services was going...

“The next generation of sound on Apple Music begins now with the official launch of Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio” went the email from Apple’s PR team last week.  Audio enthusiasts will...

Seeing Matt Damon front an ad for cryptocurrency exchange crypto.com this week, was not only a smart marketing flex for the company, but an indication that crypto has well and truly...

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...

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...

Occasionally described as “The Tinder of jobs” or “The Uber of employment”, Jobhop is an app that lets users “hop on” and “hop off” paid work, one hour at a time...