National’s all ears in fixit tech strategy

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A day before she was rolled as National’s leader, Judith Collins released - via YouTube - National’s “big fix” for the technology sector. In it she identified technology as one of the...

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...
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Why the right-to-repair movement is a big headache for Big Tech

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“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...

Ollie Hill has worked at HP for 20 years…now he’s in charge (and he...

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Most international tech companies exist in the abstract; big, sleek organizations removed from the New Zealand community. Yet Oliver Hill, the Country Manager of HP New Zealand, has a vision for...
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NZ Police STILL policing themselves with use of controversial Clearview AI

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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...

NZ vs Big Tech: How can little New Zealand regulate Facebook and co?

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Announcing a new review of our internet and publishing regulations, under the headline Govt acts to protect NZers from harmful content , Minister of Internal Affairs, Jan Tinetti, says that New...

Subscription newsletters = new battleground for Big Tech

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Newsletters, like oat milk in your coffee, are very 2021 - but their rise dates back to 2017 when Substack - a platform that enabled writers to easily monetise their content...

VR, burgers and fungus: tomorrow’s techies are being nurtured up north

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If you want to see how the tech workers of tomorrow are being trained, you’ll find it on a Thursday night in little old Whangarei. As I enter Questionable Research Labs 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...
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Dell Concept Luna still lives, and it continues to impress

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Dell's fully modular laptop pops up again, with Concept Luna promising simpler repairs and upgrades with sustainability in mind.