Everything MOH is willing to tell us right now about the upcoming My Vaccine...
The most anticipated app in recent memory is the upcoming Covid Vaccination passport app which it seems will be called My Vaccine Pass. That’s the app we’ll need to download on...
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...
AWS comes to NZ – is it really good news?
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...
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...
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...
What is IRL? Meet the social messaging and events app eating Facebook’s lunch
IRL borrows Facebook functionality to a demographic that Facebook can’t reach.
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...
About Parliament’s cryptocurrencies inquiry…
Yesterday the Parliament's Finance and Expenditure Committee announced an inquiry into the nature, impact and risk of cryptocurrencies.
The committee will examine how cryptocurrencies are created and traded - including the environmental...
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....
Q&A with Hamish McKenzie (the Kiwi co-founder of Substack) on how writers can make...
Michael Moore joined Substack the other day. So did Dan Rather, Alison Roman, and even Edward Snowden. They join Andrew Sullivan has joined Substack as have Glenn Greenwald, Cheryl Strayed, Patti...