Meet Fruitometry – the Kiwi AI imaging startup helping NZ grow better kiwifruit
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...
NZ first nation to join Smart Cities programme
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...
Streaming wars: NZ broadcasters face-off in battle for viewers
This month Netflix gave us an insight into how dominant it has become in the streaming-video-on-demand (SVOD) space, releasing a weekly report that details the time people spent watching its top...
What Spotify’s live audio app Greenroom is really like…
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...
Is Hatch or Sharesies better?
Is Hatch or Sharesies better? It's all dependent on how much you want to invest. Sharesies is cheaper for investments $500.
1/4 of New Zealand’s SMEs have been a victim of a cyberattack
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...
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...
Meet Pavan Vyas – the man behind the NZ Covid Tracer app
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....
How the FBI & NZ police used fake encryption app, ANoM, to sting global...
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...
Is Facebook even worse than we imagined?
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...














