Technology

It comes as the government pushes ahead with a law that would force the internet giant to pay media companies for content

Government agencies are gearing up to combat a barrage of vaccine-related scams expected to hit during the Covid-19 immunisation campaign.

New Zealand's ability to upskill its workers is being road-blocked because of a broken promise from Labour to reinstate postgraduate student allowances, a students' association says.

The software firm at the centre of a cyber breach won't be drawn on whether it kept the Reserve Bank in the dark about a fault in its systems.

A recent survey commissioned by the consumer cyber safety software company NortonLifeLock has found two thirds of New Zealanders were worried that gaming would become less secure in the future.

Elon Musk's car firm Tesla has said it bought about US$1.5bn (NZ$2bn) of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in January and expects to start accepting it as payment in future.

A study has found that many people send harmful digital communications because they think it's a joke.

More New Zealanders need to improve their digital skills, as workforce shortages are exacerbated by Covid-19 border closures, new research shows.

Many businesses that rushed out to buy new software ahead of the first lockdown are finding themselves with expensive technology they no longer have use for, according a report.

One of the most difficult problems in finance right now is figuring out the fundamental economic value of cryptocurrencies. And the past week has complicated this further.