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...
Enlighten Designs’ Damon Kelly – on creating technology that has a positive impact on...
Software and design companies come and go - few have been around as long as Hamilton-based Enlighten Designs which was formed in founder and CEO Damon Kelly’s caravan in 1998; today...
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...
Exclusive: Norton explains how it’s combating AI cybercrime with Norton Genie
We talk with Managing Director of Gen Mark Gorrie about Norton Genie fighting the surge in AI-supported cybercrime with a free AI-scam detection tool.
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.
Interview with IGEA CEO Ron Curry – on gaming’s gains during the pandemic
The gaming industry in New Zealand is worth an estimated half-a-billion dollars and is one of our fastest growing tech success stories. Indeed, 96 percent of local creators’ income comes from...
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...
Q&A with Hamish McKenzie (the Kiwi co-founder of Substack) on how writers can make...
Michael Moore joined Substack the other day. So did Dan Rather, Alison Roman, and even Edward Snowden. They join Andrew Sullivan has joined Substack as have Glenn Greenwald, Cheryl Strayed, Patti...
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,...
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...