Technology
Why we shouldn’t expect cyber outages, but prepare for them
How worried should we be of future outages that could grind society to a halt?
Why AI facial recognition has a discrimination problem
“It’s only as clever as the engineers and the people who put data into it.”
Why tf do important documents only get sent through the post?
Ever heard of ✨email✨?
The online world can't be left to tech bros. It needs indigenous voices
Indigenous thought has a lot to offer future technologies, writes Daniel Smith.
Bad news: doomscrolling is ruining your health
Who would’ve thought?
96 percent of rangatahi want innovation to be taught in schools
During the uncertain times of a pandemic, new problems can arise that demand new solutions.
Too much screen use is giving young people a dry eye disease typically seen in elderly
Aotearoa youth who spend long hours in front of screens are showing signs of an eye condition more commonly found in the elderly, according to new…
Here’s what we know about the Facebook outage this morning
The outage was the second biggest the company has experienced.
80% of future jobs will require maths and sciences, skills NZ is lacking
A projected 80 percent of future jobs will require maths and science skills. And NZ is not ready.
Checking your phone at work just makes you more bored, study finds
When you're bored at work, do you aimlessly scroll through your phone?
I started one of NZ’s first Discord drug servers at 18
The mastermind of one of NZ’s first illegal drug servers was an 18-year-old Wellington student.
Facebook wants you to read articles before sharing them
Facebook is testing a feature where users who haven’t read news stories are asked to before sharing.
Next gen Covid apps could be used to spy on us if we don't get privacy controls right
New Zealand is Covid-19 free, but the government still wants us tracking where we go and what we do on the NZ Covid Tracer app. In…
Covid proved having no access to internet is dangerous in NZ
The internet is what made eight weeks in lockdown bearable for most of us. But for the estimated 20% of Kiwis who experience digital exclusion, not…
Restaurants are begging us not to order through delivery companies
Delivery companies can take such a high cut that it's not worth it to open at all.
We asked an IT guy what to do if your tech breaks during lockdown
With all the tech repair places closed, many of us are living in fear of our laptops breaking. We wouldn’t be able to work, or even…
GirlBoss On the Power of Problems Facing Young Kiwis
You don’t have to be the next Elon Musk or Bill Gates to create social change. You just need a problem and we’ve all got those,…