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...
Meet the curator of Steam’s New Zealand games collection
This week I opened Steam on my desktop to be greeted by a sight I’d never seen before: a celebration of PC games made in New Zealand, with discounts of up...
Veteran Kiwi writer Simon Sweetman tried Substack – here’s his verdict
Since March 2021, music and pop culture essayist Sweetman has been publishing on Substack multiple times a week – often nearly every day. He told theBit it all began when a...
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 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...
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...
Exclusive: NordVPN knows which sites contain the ‘most significant amount of malware’
We chat with CTO at NordVPN Marijus Briedis explains the dangers of AI in phishing attacks and putting up with 300,000 malware infections per month.
Exclusive: 1Password is giving passkeys a grand ‘first impression’
1Password CPO Steve Won talks to us about the password manager's move to passkeys, abolishing passwords in our lifetime, and the importance of making a good first impression for all.
Exclusive: Lenovo’s new ‘Tiny-in-One’ is all for ‘future-proofing’
Lenovo's VP and GM of Visuals Business Stefan Engel breaks down the current state of the workplace environment, understanding the need of "elegance" in a device and the benefits of the company's latest ThinkCentre Tiny-in-One Gen 5.