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...

Microsoft’s $100bn purchase of Activision looks like crazy money

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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...

What Spotify’s live audio app Greenroom is really like…

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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...

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...

I’ve never had a VR injury, but I do have one embarrassing tech tale

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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...

Facial recognition ad tech flunks the creepiness test, but someone will make it work

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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...

When Yahoo almost saved the world from Facebook

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Hard as it is to believe, there was a time when Yahoo nearly saved the world. Not with useful search results, you understand, but by purchasing – and presumably ruining –...

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...
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Is my cryptocurrency investment really just gambling under a more professional name?

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Outside of Bitcoin zealots, there aren’t many people who would argue that investing in cryptocurrency isn’t a gamble. But is it gambling? I can’t say I’d given the question much thought until...

Is Twitch streaming a dream career? Not for me

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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...