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Jeff Bezos accepts critics have a point (as he prepares to blast off to space)

You wait years for billionaires to literally up sticks and leave the planet, and then two do it at once – albeit, temporarily. Fresh...

Valve’s Steam Deck is a PC gaming Switch rival

It seems Valve really will do literally anything to avoid making Half Life 3 or a new Left 4 Dead game. The company has...

Move over, Xbox: Netflix has plans in the gaming space

Unless you get a weird joy from pressing the ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ button next to the latest show, nobody would claim that...

Amazon is making designer Diane von Furstenberg Echos… but there’s a catch

The main triumph of the Echo Dot is its uncanny ability to hide the Amazon’s eavesdropping AI assistant Alexa in plain sight. It’s a...

Apple releases $169 MagSafe iPhone Battery Pack

Apple has released the MagSafe Battery Pack, a NZ$169 external battery that snaps to the back of the iPhone 12 series.  The new MagSafe Battery...

Apple’s war on buttons sets sights on iPad mini

The iPad mini hasn’t changed much since its debut in 2012, but it looks like the most neglected member of Apple’s tablet family is...

All Blacks, Amazon and the American Dollar

Despite rugby struggling to gain a foothold in the US - deep-pocketed US companies, sensing an opportunity, have New Zealand Rugby on speed dial. According...

How to change currency (to NZD) on Amazon?

With Amazon’s Australia store delivering to New Zealand, Kiwis can now have thousands of products delivered to their doorstep in 4-5 days instead of...

Data portability is coming to NZ – here’s what it means to you

Soon New Zealanders will have more control of their personal data, with the government announcing this week that it will establish a consumer data...

Amazon in a world of trouble

This week Amazon opened up its Australian site to Kiwi shoppers. It’s a small but significant step into the New Zealand retail space (though Amazon...