Technology
AI to deal $570m blow to Australasian music industry
While artists are increasingly using AI in their work, four in five are worried the technology will stop them from earning a living, study shows.
Elon Musk closes X offices in Brazil over 'censorship orders'
Media platform X said it would close its operations in Brazil "effective immediately" due to what it called "censorship orders" by Brazilian judge Alexandre de Moraes.
Is this the end for the magnetic stripe?
Magstripe hotel key cards are rare these days, increasingly superseded by contactless cards with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips inside them.
Severe cyber attack can bring down a society - Australia PM
A malicious and severe cyber attack can bring down an entire society, that's the warning from Australia's Prime Minister. The increasing nature of modern warfare has prompted both Anthony Albanese and… Audio
Mark Zuckerberg reveals 'Roman' statue of wife
The figure's striking colour and towering size have left the internet describing the Facebook founder as a "wife guy".
NZ's healthtech exports soar, but lag behind global peers
The value of healthtech exports has more than doubled in the past decade to $2.6 billion from $1.27b, but investment is lagging behind global peers.
Imagining the next generation of robofish
They will look like fish, swim like fish and even sense like fish. Liz Garton meets a research team designing robofish and smart wetsuits to monitor the state of our oceans. Audio
Stories from Our Changing World: Robots that swim like fish
They will look like fish, swim like fish and even sense like fish. Liz Garton meets a research team designing robofish and smart wetsuits to monitor the state of our oceans. Audio
Five Eyes nations consider sharing info from criminal databases
The Five Eyes countries are considering whether they can run checks on each other's criminal databases.
What the gene tech rule change could mean for our biotech sector
Alec Foster from BioTechNZ’s Executive Council joins Emile Donovan to discuss the development. Audio
The Panel with Alexia Russell and David Downs (Part 1)
Tonight on The Panel, Wallace Chapman and panellists Alexia Russell and David Downs discuss the Government's plan to end to the country's nearly 30-year ban on genetically engineered or modified… Audio
Tech Tuesday: Google's anti-trust case and tri-folding phones
Tim Batt is in the studio to get us up to date on the latest news and reviews in the tech world. Audio
NIWA unveils new weather-predicting supercomputer
The computer will be able to run complex models much faster than anything available to researchers in New Zealand at the moment. Audio
Former defence minister disagrees over China threat
He says there are material threats to the Pacific region that have not been present before.
The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how
Analysis - Artificial intelligence-enabled cameras on billboards, in bus windshields, on petrol station forecourts and in the checkout at the supermarket - all these are here, or about to be.
Rage-baiting big business on social media
We've all been guilty of doom scrolling on social media, but a new Tik Tok trend might not leave you quite so passive. Jogai Bhatt spoke to Charlotte Cook. Audio
Business to offer AI cameras for front of buses
A US company that puts AI-enabled cameras on the front of buses to try to stop cars from blocking bus stops has entered the New Zealand market.
Bringing data back to the long white cloud
Fears that New Zealanders are losing control of their private information are behind moves to improve data sovereignty Audio
Richard Pearce flies again
Did Canterbury farmer Richard Pearce beat the Wright Brothers in 1903? Audio
CrowdStrike reveals 'very embarrassing' mistake behind global meltdown
Experts say first-year programming students are taught how to avoid the problem that caused the largest IT outage in history.
