technology

Germany shooting a Christchurch copycat?

Experts in far-right extremism see a number of similarities between the Christchurch terror attack and last week’s mass shooting in Hanau, Germany.

Feb 27 2020

Marc Daalder

technology

Apple TV content at risk over law change

Apple is the latest tech firm to warn that Kiwis may lose access to streaming content if a new parental guidance law goes ahead.

Feb 25 2020

Marc Daalder

technology

Big Tech threatens to geo-block NZ

Big Tech companies like Microsoft have raised the spectre of geo-blocking NZ if the Government proceeds with a bill for classifying streamed content.

Feb 21 2020

Marc Daalder

Podcast: The Detail

Our gigantic e-waste problem

New Zealand has a massive e-waste problem, pushed along by rampant consumerism.

Feb 17 2020

Emile Donovan

Ideasroom

Forest missed for the trees in Huawei controversy

The University of Auckland’s Gehan Gunasekara explores the relationship between national security and economic interests in the Huawei debate.

Feb 14 2020

Gehan Gunasekara

technology

Customer caught up in KiwiSaver provider hack

An Auckland man caught up in the hack of sensitive personal information from his KiwiSaver provider fears he could now be the victim of identity fraud.

Feb 13 2020

RNZ

technology

Drones in NZ have their own traffic delays

Oleg Vornik asks where NZ’s drone sector is at - and finds we won’t be delivering pizza by drone on the regular any time soon.

Feb 11 2020

Newsroom Contributor

technology

Kiwis want crackdown on social media companies

Most New Zealanders want social media companies to be liable for exposing users to harm and think Big Tech isn’t doing enough to control extremist content online.

Feb 05 2020

Marc Daalder

Content partnership

Email at work is old hat

Coordinating people in the workplace day to day sucks up a lot of time. Mark Jennings takes a look at ‘Slack’ - a rapidly-growing communication tool making email seem dated.

Feb 04 2020

Mark Jennings

Week in Review

When will NZ be real about our scary future?

Climate change has the planet on the brink of catastrophe, yet the debate in NZ is paralysed by our fear of the cost of action. Cat MacLennan says it’s time to take our heads out of the sand.

Feb 03 2020

Cat MacLennan

technology

Hard core, fringe benefits: Huawei’s battle for 5G

It’s the news story that has everything - global politics, Trump, Chinese spies, Iranian sanctions, driverless cars - and now it’s got Boris Johnson and Brexit.

Feb 03 2020

Nikki Mandow

technology

Proposals spark clash over filtering the internet

Stakeholders in the tech industry are broadly supportive of the Government’s efforts to counter violent extremism online, but split on a handful of key propositions.

Feb 03 2020

Marc Daalder

technology

Takedown notices and internet filters coming to NZ

Following last year’s terror attack, the Government is planning new laws to give it more powers to tackle and take down extremist content online.

Jan 31 2020

Marc Daalder

Week in Review

Stop giving social media so much credit

Anna Rawhiti-Connell explains why she’s not prepared to accept that ’snake oil’ social media tactics will somehow manipulate the vast majority of NZ voters who already know what they believe in.

Jan 30 2020

Anna Rawhiti-Connell

technology

NZ a virtual spectator in reining in Big Tech

Silicon Valley is at the heart of scandal after scandal, from privacy concerns to online hate speech to tax avoidance. Will New Zealand regulate Big Tech in 2020?

Jan 24 2020

Marc Daalder