Exclusive: Bitdefender antivirus is so good ‘even our competitors use us’
Bitdefender's Director of Threat Research Bogdan Botezatu explains the need to educate everyone on even the simplest cyberattacks, dealing with up to 550 new threats a minute and how a baby...
Meet Pavan Vyas – the man behind the NZ Covid Tracer app
Pavan Vyas is our quiet tech superstar. He arrived in New Zealand as an immigrant in the mid-90s, found he had a knack for coding and took computing at Auckland University....
Digital Provenance – what it is and why it’s important to you…
Many will be familiar with the idea of provenance in art; the provenance is the documentation that authenticates a particular piece of art. Digital provenance is the same for digital objects.
With...
Q&A with Pav Hundal – Love it or hate it, Swyftx makes it easy...
There’s no more divisive word in tech at the moment than “cryptocurrency”.
Either you see crypto as a giant Ponzi scheme or the future of money - or perhaps a bit of...
Annie Taunga – Behind the scenes at Weta Digital
The Lord of the Rings holds a special place in Annie Taunga’s heart; it was her first visual effects project and the first time she saw her name in credits.
The series...
Kiwi Youtuber remakes The Simpsons – Hit and Run in a week
A remake of the popular 2003 action/adventure game The Simpsons Hit & Run game has rocked the world of video game enthusiasts and it only took a week to achieve. Kiwi...
Meet Scott Brown – the Kiwi carpenter with 275K subs on YouTube
Scott Brown's face may be familiar to many of you. The Auckland-based carpenter has over 275,000 followers on YouTube, and if you've ever searched the web for carpentry-related DIY advice, you've...
Interview with Clubhouse’s Aarthi Ramamurthy – “We believe in empowering people”
Video might have killed the radio star but last year audio made a big and unexpected comeback with the arrival of Clubhouse.
Clubhouse founders Paul Davison and Rohan Seth originally designed a...
Meet Mitchell Pham: The man responsible for helping the government “understand digital”
Mitchell Pham is chair of the Orwellian-sounding Digital Council for Aotearoa.
Appointed in December 2019, the 49 year old tech entrepreneur leads a now six-strong group of ‘well-connected experts’. One founding member,...
Intel’s Dino Strkljevic – giving gamers “more performance for their money”
Dino Strkljevic is Intel's Business Development Manager, for Australia and New Zealand. He’s also an avid and very successful gamer, and a self-described “OG extreme overclocker”.
He has held world records in...













