Spatial Audio: The best (and worse) remixed tracks
After reporting the announcement regarding Spatial Audio last week I figured it was time to check out what Apple calls “the next generation of sound”.
As a music lover I’ve spent countless...
NZ Police STILL policing themselves with use of controversial Clearview AI
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...
Sharesies vs Hatch fees comparison (…for US shares)
Sharesies and Hatch offer Kiwis largely the same service: the ability to invest in US companies from their smartphones and laptops. The biggest difference between the two companies - apart from...
Police put live facial recognition on pause – for now
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...
Now Meta wants to teach our news organisations to “develop better business models”
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...
VR, burgers and fungus: tomorrow’s techies are being nurtured up north
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...
Interview with A/NZ Zoom head Michael Chetner – “putting people at the forefront of...
The pandemic and the overnight move to hybrid working has meant enormous growth for Zoom - whether it be for business, education, entertainment or just catching up with family and friends...
Is Spatial Audio really a game changer for Apple Music?
“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...
Creators in the driver’s seat (as YouTube pays out >$43 billion)
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...
Aussie crowdsource study targets Google’s secret search algorithm
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...