Facebook is too big to tame or kill

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Facebook is having a difficult time of it of late. It has weathered storms before — most notably that whole undermining democracy snafu — but this time it’s clearly pretty shaken,...

I’m starting to hate true wireless earbuds

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AirPod owners aside, I have a question for you: does anybody really, actually like true wireless earbuds?  For those confused by the terminology, “true wireless” refers to those earphones without any kind...

Tragedy bring out the worst of Twitter (or: you say it best when you...

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I don’t know how much — if at all — the story registered in New Zealand, but last week in Britain, a member of parliament was murdered. Sir David Amess was...

Is Facebook even worse than we imagined?

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Even those of us who follow the travails of Facebook closely were rocked earlier this month by the revelations uncovered by ex-Facebook employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen. Her testimony, and the internal...

Ron’s Gone Wrong can’t decide whether big tech is a problem or solution

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This is going to be a slightly different column than usual, as it focuses entirely on one movie — and a kid’s one at that. That’s not because I’ve run out...

Should Netflix pay for hogging ISP’s bandwidth?

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Whether it’s Squid Game, the new sensation Maid or just a catch-up binge on Selling Sunset, Netflix and other streaming services are hogging up ISPs bandwidth and costing ISPs money and...

Sorry Xiaomi: 4K smartphones are still utterly pointless

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It’s tough being a smartphone manufacturer. With so little to differentiate one shiny black rectangle from one another (“look: this one has slightly smaller bezels!”), it must be tempting to see...

5 ways Amazon Astro is better than a real butler (and 5 ways it’s...

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Say what you like about Amazon (and we have), it’s certainly a company that’s full of surprises.  On Tuesday, the company announced Astro the robot assistant would be rolling into select American...

AWS comes to NZ – is it really good news?

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Maybe it was Covid-fatigue or that strange emotion Kiwis seem to get when Big Tech deigns to notice us - but the announcement last week that Amazon Web Services was going...

Smart glasses won’t be ubiquitous until they carry an Apple logo

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So, Facebook is the latest company to try and make smart glasses a thing that people would voluntarily pay money for and then put on their face. In public. Perhaps aware of its...