Tech

Apple’s Vision Pro straps to your face and offers integration of the digital and physical realms. (Photo: Apple / Design: Tina Tiller)

Would you strap this ‘dystopia helmet’ to your face?

Watch out, Silicon Valley is trying to make wearable face tech cool again.

By Chris Schulz | 7th June, 2023

Image: Tina Tiller

Weird: The Kindle comes with a pen now

The top-selling digital reading device now offers much more than just books on a screen. But is that a good thing?

By Chris Schulz | 2nd June, 2023

Design: Archi Banal

Artificial ingredients: Will ChatGPT be your new sous-chef?

Can AI generated recipes make a self-described painfully average chef any better at cooking?

By Fran Barclay | 8th May, 2023

Photo: Shanti Mathias, additional design: Archi Banal

Connecting the Chathams

One of the most remote places on earth finally has high-speed internet, and the effects are being felt everywhere and by everyone.

By Shanti Mathias | 28th December, 2022

Contributing writer

He Puna Taimoana hot pools in New Brighton, Christchurch (Design: Tina Tiller)

No, the Christchurch hot pools weren’t ‘hacked’ – the council just messed up

Cocking up is not the same thing as getting hacked.

By Dylan Reeve | 9th September, 2022

Contributing writer

tfw falling forward into an unknown future that holds great danger (Image: Tina Tiller)

Has Google really built a sentient AI?

A Google engineer claims a chatbot he's working on might be sentient. Is he right?

By Ben Gracewood | 14th June, 2022

Chief technology officer

Photo: Shanti Mathias, additional design: Archi Banal

Connecting the Chathams

One of the most remote places on earth finally has high-speed internet, and the effects are being felt everywhere and by everyone.

By Shanti Mathias | 10th June, 2022

Contributing writer

Image: Archi Banal

AI writing has entered a new dimension, and it’s going to change education

Will teachers still assign essays when a robot can write you a passable one in mere seconds?

By Hal Crawford | 23rd May, 2022

Contributing writer

RIP iPods (Image: Tina Tiller)

To all the iPods we’ve loved before

The hours spent ripping your entire CD collection. The random mislabelled tracks from Limewire. The memories... the memories.

By Group Think | 13th May, 2022

A bunch of people

Image: Tina Tiller

For God’s sake, change your password

No, 'password', 'iloveyou' and '123456' won't cut it.

By Josie Adams | 6th May, 2022

Contributing writer

Image: Archi Banal

No one in tech gets the semi-ironic tilde

Who asked for strikethrough auto-formatting? Nobody.

By Madeleine Holden | 11th April, 2022

Glorious co-founder Tim Harper and two of its NFT releases, by Rita Angus and Gordon Walters (Images supplied; photo illustration by Tina Tiller)

Glorious is trying to bring fine art value and values to the often sketchy world of NFTs

The country’s former head lawyer. The co-founder of Sky TV. Dan Carter. They're all part of this mysterious new start-up.

By Duncan Greive | 31st March, 2022

Image: Archi Banal

The ‘RealMe of the metaverse’ might stop you getting scammed

Avoiding fraud in the metaverse is a new problem – and a business opportunity.

By Josie Adams | 24th March, 2022

Contributing writer

Image: Tina Tiller

Inside the bike-based metaverse where you can meet an Olympian

With Zwift, anyone can do the Tour de France.

By Josie Adams | 10th March, 2022

Contributing writer

Image: Tina Tiller

Why does the last 1% of your phone battery last forever?

Is it real, or all in our heads?

By Josie Adams | 8th February, 2022

Contributing writer

Image: Tina Tiller

What’s the privacy cost of your ride across town?

A new report shows just how data-hungry Uber is. We break down what it means.

By Dylan Reeve | 2nd February, 2022

Contributing writer