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...
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...
If you’re over 30, it’s safer not to use emoji
Language can be a tricky thing, even when there shouldn’t be any ambiguity at all. Case in point, during a 1977 jaunt to Poland, President Jimmy Carter made quite an impression...
Ron’s Gone Wrong can’t decide whether big tech is a problem or solution
This is going to be a slightly different column than usual, as it focuses entirely on one movie — and a kid’s one at that. That’s not because I’ve run out...
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...
Spatial Audio now available on Android… but does anyone care?
Android users that subscribe to Apple Music (rare breeds) can now experience spatial audio too.
The format - powered by Dolby Atmos - was touted as “the next generation of sound” when...
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 Chrome’s latest security update enough to keep you safe?
With the launch of Chrome 91, Google will roll out an update which will assist Enhanced Safe Browsing by filtering out harmful extensions and protecting against infected downloads.
Since the initial launch...
Why the tech industry could do more to help close the gender gap
In 1843, mathematician and writer Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace wrote the first computer algorithm. It can only be assumed she would have expected all women to, one day, be...
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...














