NZ’s mobile data is the third most expensive in the world (sort of)
New Zealand's mobile data is the third most expensive in the world. This is according to data from a Tefficient study that analysed mobile data usage and costs from 44 developed...
Smart glasses won’t be ubiquitous until they carry an Apple logo
So, Facebook is the latest company to try and make smart glasses a thing that people would voluntarily pay money for and then put on their face. In public.
Perhaps aware of its...
5 ways Amazon Astro is better than a real butler (and 5 ways it’s...
Say what you like about Amazon (and we have), it’s certainly a company that’s full of surprises.
On Tuesday, the company announced Astro the robot assistant would be rolling into select American...
Facial recognition ad tech flunks the creepiness test, but someone will make it work
Billboards are a pretty inefficient way of advertising to people, if you think about it.
You plaster pictures of your product on a big poster by the side of the road and...
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...
Google forcing security on people is the right choice, even if it seems like...
Last week, only noticed by the kinds of people that read the company’s Keyword blog posts for fun, Google revealed something pretty incredible.
Since last year, the company has been automatically...
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...
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...
Microsoft’s $100bn purchase of Activision looks like crazy money
This week, it was revealed that Microsoft plans to spend just over NZ$100 billion on buying Activision Blizzard — a company that’s been more newsworthy for its alleged unsavoury work culture...
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...