I got pretty excited when I read the press release about Volkswagen getting together with D-Wave, using quantum computing to demonstrate real time traffic optimised routing at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon a few weeks ago The conference was sold out but they did live stream it.
I've been in...
Microsoft's big news - Surface Duo dual screen Android smartphone, Surface Neo dual screen Windows 10X tablet, Surface Pro X, Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7. Plus Sony PlayStation 4 opens up, iPhone 11 Pro's superb night photography, Flick Electric + more.
Hosted by Paul Spain and this week's ...
This week we discuss killing the steering wheel in future cars, Australia vs online extremism, US customs vs social media, NZ's Spidertracks, robot taxi dissatisfaction for Waymo heading in the right direction, Ex-Uber engineer Levandowski charged in the US, Huawei Mate 30 to launch under cloud ...
I've had a life-long fascination with news.
When I was a kid, totally blind since birth and before the Internet was a thing, I was fortunate to have three older sighted siblings who would read the newspaper to me. We grew up in Auckland, so The New Zealand Herald has played a big part in my life...
This week Paul Spain chats with Justin Tomlinson who shares the inside word on Sky TV's Parnell Skunkworks. We also discuss iCloud web update beta, Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage Tuia 250 privacy breach and identification storage challenges, Wearables market >$10b, a...
Amazon Echo devices come with different voices depending on where they were purchased from. If you bought your device from amazon.com then it will come configured with the standard US Alexa voice. If you bought it from a local store in New Zealand then it will likely be pre-configured to use Alexa...
In what must rank as one of the most poorly researched mainstream news stories in recent times, Newshub last night told us on their 6pm news that Vodafone's soon to launch 5G network could cause problems for NIWA (New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) who might not be a...
Chorus to launch Hyperfibre service
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