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Crypto wallets explained

Greg Fleming
28/12/2021

Ok, so after reading about it all year long and hearing tales of easy wealth and the future possibilities of the blockchain, DAOs and NFTs,…

No Christmas for crypto

Greg Fleming
21/12/2021

If you’ve invested in cryptocurrency, checking your portfolio over the last few weeks won’t bring any seasonal joy. With few exceptions most currencies are down…

Police put live facial recognition on pause – for now

Greg Fleming
15/12/2021

For once, not being up with the latest tech is a good thing – according to the authors of a new 85-page report on facial…

National’s all ears in fixit tech strategy

Greg Fleming
07/12/2021

A day before she was rolled as National’s leader, Judith Collins released – via YouTube – National’s “big fix” for the technology sector. In it…

NZ media’s new Big Tech strategy

Greg Fleming
01/12/2021

Six years ago Stuff and NZME, sick of losing readers and digital advertising revenue to Google and Facebook for little recompense, pitched the idea of…

Streaming wars: NZ broadcasters face-off in battle for viewers

Greg Fleming
24/11/2021

This month Netflix gave us an insight into how dominant it has become in the streaming-video-on-demand (SVOD) space, releasing a weekly report that details the…

NZ late to the AI party – and it’s costing us

Greg Fleming
24/11/2021

You may not have heard but in April the Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association had its first meeting at Hobbiton, where over 30 senior researchers from…

Apple relent – soon you’ll be able to repair your own iPhone and MacBook

Greg Fleming
18/11/2021

This year has seen some of the big tech players backtrack on some key policy positions. There was the Apple CSAM about-face – after outcry…

Now Meta wants to teach our news organisations to “develop better business models”

Greg Fleming
17/11/2021

After a decade of Facebook and Google hammering news organisations globally by effectively taking over the mobile advertising space while using its news content on…

We spent a day looking for Covid and Vaccine disinformation on Facebook: Here’s what we found

Greg Fleming
16/11/2021

Like most of us who believe in science rather than crackpot conspiracy theories, I’d unfollowed the few Facebook friends who – out of the blue…