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...
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....
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...
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...
Boston Dynamics’ viral appeal is undeniable, but where will the money come from?
Boston Dynamics has a long history of producing videos that briefly make the internet lose its collective minds, and the latest one is no exception. In it, two human-like robots very...
Tragedy bring out the worst of Twitter (or: you say it best when you...
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...
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...
Companies: stop trying to normalise mid-game snacking, please
This week, I became aware of a product that 200,000 years of human evolution has led us to. The answer to a greasy gamepad isn’t wet wipes, soap or a mirror...
Samsung wants to make foldables mainstream, but can a folding phone beat my apathy?
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...
I’m starting to hate true wireless earbuds
AirPod owners aside, I have a question for you: does anybody really, actually like true wireless earbuds?
For those confused by the terminology, “true wireless” refers to those earphones without any kind...














