Buying a car? Go electric or pay for someone else to
No, Waka Kotahi’s “clean car discount” doesn’t reward tidiness, but it is a way to get more people into electric vehicles and support the government’s aim to be carbon neutral by...
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...
Can tech turn transport into a subscriber service?
Car sharing might solve our addiction to owning our own vehicles suggests Stuart Matthews.
What’s with all the weird tech collaborations in 2021?
It’s nearly Christmas Party season, which makes it that magical time of year when, under the influence of alcohol and an excess of holiday spirit, people will end up shacking up...
If you’re over 30, it’s safer not to use emoji
Language can be a tricky thing, even when there shouldn’t be any ambiguity at all. Case in point, during a 1977 jaunt to Poland, President Jimmy Carter made quite an impression...
AR-gh: Why nobody should welcome back AR glasses
It wouldn’t be Christmas without tedious reruns, would it? And this week, it seems the rerun in question is “wouldn’t it be great if we all looked like cyborgs with transparent...
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...
I’ve never had a VR injury, but I do have one embarrassing tech tale
Not since Nintendo encouraged people to pretend the Wii remote was a bowling ball have there been so many TV-related accidents.
According to UK insurer Aviva, it saw a 31% year-on-year increase...
Samsung to throw everything at the wall with Galaxy Unpacked, but will anything stick?
What are you doing in three weeks’ time? Samsung hopes that on Wednesday 11 August you’ll be tuned in to the company’s live stream for the next Galaxy Unpacked event.
Actually, given...
Is Twitch streaming a dream career? Not for me
I should start this off with a disclaimer: I don’t routinely watch Twitch, in the same way that I don’t spend that much time on YouTube. I was born at the...