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Twitter is testing a new prompt to encourage kindness

Twitter, a site so dedicated to aggressive free speech that a former employee referred to it as “a honeypot for assholes”, has decided that...

Amazon is reportedly planning its own smart fridge

Not content with steamrolling ahead with plans to introduce the world’s first commercially available robot butler, it seems Amazon wants to take over another...

Windows 11 released: here’s how to skip the queue and get it now

Someone at Microsoft has pressed the big red button labelled ‘launch Windows 11’ and it’s now being pushed to PCs around the world. Eventually,...

The Reserve Bank wants to discuss digital currencies

Digital currencies are hot and the Reserve Bank wants in. But we’re not talking about bitcoin or ethereum - New Zealand isn’t El Salvador which...

The Apple Watch 7 finally has a release date

When Apple showed off the Apple Watch 7 at its iPhone 13 launch event, one key detail was missing: release date. The company would...

CarbconClick moves CO2 “credits” to Blockchain

Two Auckland companies - CENNZnet and CarbonClick - have today announced a new partnership that will see CarbonClick’s carbon credits stored on CENNZnet’s Decentralised Application (dApp)...

The Galaxy S22 Ultra could be the next Galaxy Note

For a company facing a shortage of chips for flagship phones, Samsung sure pumps out a whole lot of flagship phones. In 2020, the...

Google just embarrassed Microsoft Bing in court

You’ve got to feel a little sorry for Microsoft as lawyers representing Google just used Bing’s unpopularity as part of their US$5bn antitrust battle...

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...

It looks like the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE may be cancelled all over again

The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is very much Schrödinger's smartphone, simultaneously existing and not existing.  It was first leaked in April, before a June report...