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...
Here’s why “Live Text” is Apple’s best feature from WWDC 2021
Up until now Apple hasn’t been quite as adept at dealing with text in images as Google or Samsung. I open my Google Photos app when I want to find, say,...
Why Apple should care about silly superstitions
Apple Month is nearly upon us! September has seen new iPhones unveiled for the past decade, with one small blip last year when a global pandemic did the unthinkable and pushed...
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...
Should Netflix pay for hogging ISP’s bandwidth?
Whether it’s Squid Game, the new sensation Maid or just a catch-up binge on Selling Sunset, Netflix and other streaming services are hogging up ISPs bandwidth and costing ISPs money and...
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...
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...
The iPhone 13 may be a dull update, but boring will prove to be...
So, another iPhone event is over. The iPhone 13 has been officially unveiled and it’s hard to get too excited about anything contained within the 78-minute presentation from Cook & Co....
Is Facebook even worse than we imagined?
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...
Pegasus: Why the security Vulnerability Market is booming
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...














