Samsung to throw everything at the wall with Galaxy Unpacked, but will anything stick?

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What are you doing in three weeks’ time? Samsung hopes that on Wednesday 11 August you’ll be tuned in to the company’s live stream for the next Galaxy Unpacked event.  Actually, given...

Apple’s future vision of wireless charging convenience sounds awful (not awfully convenient)

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Remember AirPower? Announced alongside the iPhone 8 and iPhone X in 2017 as a wireless charging pad to fill up all your Apple devices at once, it missed its 2018 release...

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...

5 ways Amazon Astro is better than a real butler (and 5 ways it’s...

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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...

Explained: Why Apple’s child abuse AI image-scanning feature is controversial

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“Privacy is a fundamental human right. At Apple, it’s also one of our core values. Your devices are important to so many parts of your life. What you share from those...

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...

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...

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...

Can tech turn transport into a subscriber service?

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Car sharing might solve our addiction to owning our own vehicles suggests Stuart Matthews.

Here’s why “Live Text” is Apple’s best feature from WWDC 2021

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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,...