Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3, Flip3, Buds2 and Watch4

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Samsung announced five new devices going on sale later this year. Samsung, convinced that foldable devices are a growing market, is doubling down on making folding phones desirable. The new Galaxy Z...

How valuable is NZ’s EV ‘feebate’ compared to RoW?

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The Government has announced a ‘feebate’ to make low-carbon emission cars more affordable from 1 July 2021. A used fully electric car will receive up to NZ$3,450 while a brand new one...

Why the tech industry could do more to help close the gender gap

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In 1843, mathematician and writer Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace wrote the first computer algorithm. It can only be assumed she would have expected all women to, one day, be...

Samsung wants to make foldables mainstream, but can a folding phone beat my apathy?

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Samsung wants to make foldables go mainstream. The fact that this ambition was nestled in the middle of a 2,097-word press release about the company’s second quarter performance – very much...

No Christmas for crypto

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If you’ve invested in cryptocurrency, checking your portfolio over the last few weeks won’t bring any seasonal joy. With few exceptions most currencies are down with bitcoin currently hovering around $46...

What’s with all the weird tech collaborations in 2021?

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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...

Tragedy bring out the worst of Twitter (or: you say it best when you...

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I don’t know how much — if at all — the story registered in New Zealand, but last week in Britain, a member of parliament was murdered. Sir David Amess was...

Smart glasses won’t be ubiquitous until they carry an Apple logo

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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...

AWS comes to NZ – is it really good news?

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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...

The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is still coming, but is late really better than...

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Samsung’s will-it, won’t-it drama with the Galaxy S21 FE has swung back once again to ‘will’. Over the weekend, two bits of fairly conclusive evidence popped up to back up the...