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...

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...

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...

Pegasus: Why the security Vulnerability Market is booming

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Pegasus joins a list of ominously-named tools blurring the line between hacking and surveillance for 'lawful intercept' purposes, with other notable examples being from the likes of FinFisher and The Hacking...

Buying a car? Go electric or pay for someone else to

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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...

Is Facebook even worse than we imagined?

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Even those of us who follow the travails of Facebook closely were rocked earlier this month by the revelations uncovered by ex-Facebook employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen. Her testimony, and the internal...

Sorry Xiaomi: 4K smartphones are still utterly pointless

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It’s tough being a smartphone manufacturer. With so little to differentiate one shiny black rectangle from one another (“look: this one has slightly smaller bezels!”), it must be tempting to see...

Is Spatial Audio really a game changer for Apple Music?

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“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...

We spent a day looking for Covid and Vaccine disinformation on Facebook: Here’s what...

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Like most of us who believe in science rather than crackpot conspiracy theories, I'd unfollowed the few Facebook friends who - out of the blue - started posting anti-vaccination rants.  But here...

Why we should all rely a little less on Googling

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In 2015, I apparently made 14,895 Google searches. I’d like to give you an update for 2021, but it seems Google will no longer easily tell you exactly how tethered you...