technology

$13trn wealth funds target livestreaming

How the NZ Superfund has drummed up $13 trillion to put pressure on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube giants over livestreaming following the Christchurch terror attacks.

15 hours ago

Nikki Mandow

Ideasroom

What NZ has to offer an AI future

NZ has often shaped human civilisation for the better, so now’s our chance to take the lead on Artificial Intelligence.

Aug 15 2019

Michael Witbrock

Terror in Chch

White supremacists still active in NZ

A fresh New Zealand white supremacist group is recruiting members on forums like 4chan.

Aug 10 2019

Marc Daalder

Ideasroom

Why business matters

Professor Jayne Godfrey and Molly Freeman explain why the importance and relevance of business education and research has never been greater.

Aug 07 2019

Professor Jayne M Godfrey and Molly Freeman

Podcast: Two Cents' Worth

Scam Scum: We’re All Victims

New Zealanders lost $33 million to scams last year. Madison Reidy looks at how that’s impacting our economy and what we’re doing to stop it.

Aug 05 2019

RNZ and Newsroom Staff

technology

Vodafone boss changes the vibe

Vodafone announced plans to roll out the country’s first 5G network yesterday. The new technology was the focus, but as Mark Jennings writes, chief executive Jason Paris was effectively relaunching the company.

Aug 02 2019

Mark Jennings

Podcast: The Detail

Facebook’s funny money

What is Libra, how will it work, and why is Facebook facing flak for it?

Aug 01 2019

Alex Ashton

Primary Industries

NZ must learn to talk about ‘evolving technologies’

New Zealanders should get to grips with gene technology and not bury their heads in sands of short-term thinking, according to one of this country’s leading scientific thinkers.

Jul 31 2019

RNZ

technology

Australia beats NZ to the punch on big tech

NZ could have led the world on regulating social media after the Christchurch attacks. Instead, Australia has moved first.

Jul 31 2019

Marc Daalder

Podcast: Two Cents' Worth

Two Cents’ Worth: How to pick a winner

Businesses of fewer than 20 employees make up 97 percent of NZ’s enterprises. But on the flip side, 10 percent go into liquidation.

Jul 22 2019

RNZ and Newsroom Staff

health & science

Why does cancer treatment work only for some?

Why does chemotherapy cure some people’s cancers, yet have almost no effect on others? Science editor Eloise Gibson asks a researcher.

Jul 15 2019

Eloise Gibson

health & science

NZ bows out of all big telescope involvement

After over a year of intense lobbying, culminating in a highly unusual mental health smear against a physicist, our Government has decided not to join the SKA telescope project in any form.

Jul 02 2019

Eloise Gibson

health & science

The smart knife revealing steak secrets

Cutting meat with a special, ‘smart’ scalpel can reveal what the animal ate, where it lived, its flavour profile and even clues about the farm’s environmental practices.

Jul 03 2019

Eloise Gibson

health & science

What MBIE told Woods on super-scope

MBIE has revealed what it told science minister Megan Woods before NZ dropped all involvement in an international mega telescope.

Jul 10 2019

Eloise Gibson

Business

The mana of Simon Moutter

Simon Moutter’s seven years leading Spark was all about business change, but, as Mark Jennings reports, the man himself changed too.

Jun 28 2019

Mark Jennings