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...

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,...

Why Apple should care about silly superstitions

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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...

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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...

Should Netflix pay for hogging ISP’s bandwidth?

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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

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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

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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...

The iPhone 13 may be a dull update, but boring will prove to be...

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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?

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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...

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...