Deep dive

As today's headphones and speakers get better and Bluetooth connectivity makes advances, there’s a new desire for hi-resolution audio streaming. The latest audio equipment is packed full of advanced features that allow...

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...

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...

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...

Unless you’re a classical music boffin you’ve probably never heard of Amsterdam-based Primephonic - a classical music start-up which launched in 2018. It enabled users access to hi-res classical downloads in a...

Justice Minister Kris Faafoi has been in the headlines lately defending the proposed new hate speech laws. The laws sparked opprobrium from both the left and right, critics citing the limits...

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...

In the early 2000s, software and electronics engineer Christopher Miller was developing world-leading imaging technology to help Emirates Team New Zealand win the America's Cup.  By 2018, he had sold his St...

For the uninitiated, Shopify isn’t a consumer-facing app you can shop through - although Shopify does have one of those Shop (but more about that below) - but an immensely-powerful commerce...

“Australia and New Zealand were early entrants to the digital transformation journey,” says Mario Allen Clement, senior market analyst for IDC.  That head-start enabled our ICT industry to pivot quickly when Covid...