Technology
Professor Cal Newport: Living better with less technology
Cal Newport's latest book Digital Minimalism calls out our enslavement to digital devices. He explains why there is nothing natural about the engineered behaviour of checking your phone every five… Audio
Robert Harris: The Second Sleep
English novelist Robert Harris's new book The Second Sleep has all the trappings of a historical novel, but actually it's set far in the future. Audio
The end of the signature
Sign of the times: how the signature became a meaningless scrawl Audio
Rugby fans underwhelmed about RWC streaming option
Rubgy fans are still unhappy about the prospect of streaming RWC games. Tech commentator Paul Spain joins the discussion on what they can expect from the Spark services. Audio
Artificial intelligence will help reshape board meetings
Board meetings of the future will increasingly become virtual affairs, as artificial intelligence reshapes reallity. Audio
YouTube to pay up to $US200m in child privacy settlement
Google's YouTube faces up to $US200 million ($314 million) settlement over violation of US child privacy laws after a Federal Trade Commission investigation.
Cyber attack costs stacking up
Cyber attacks cost their victims about $6.5 million in the second quarter of 2019 - a big jump on earlier in the year.
Internet shutdowns and Google's internal comms
Technology commentator Sarah Putt looks at the rise in the number of times governments around the world are shutting down their internet. Audio
Globalisation, and what it'll mean for you and your job
Globalisation is a bit of a buzzword these days, but a lot of the time it has an annoyingly vague, ivory tower sort of ring to it. Audio
Snowball: ABC podcast about falling victim to a con-artist
In the year 2006, Greg Wards was a Kiwi expat living it up on his big OE in London. One night he went to a house party and met an American woman. Audio
YouTube stars sue the platform for discrimination
Eight gay content creators in the US are suing YouTube for what they say amounts to discrimination. Their suit says YouTube, which is owned by Google, regularly labels the content they produce as… Audio
Political parties are targeting us with propaganda online
Recent elections overseas were won by narrow margins amid claims voters were influenced by misleading messages injected straight into their social media feeds by political parties. Is that what we… Video, Audio
Political parties are targeting us with propaganda online
Recent elections overseas were won by narrow margins amid claims voters were influenced by misleading messages injected straight into their social media feeds by political parties. Is that what we…
Video, AudioTwitter's Jack Dorsey has his account hacked
The co-founder and chief executive of Twitter has had his own account on the service taken over by hackers.
Hany Farid - Are Deep Fakes a real problem?
Sophisticated digital imaging technology is being used to create 'Deep Fakes'; images and videos that are indistinguishable from reality. Things have moved on from celebrity faces being superimposed… Video, Audio
Why more telcos are headed up by women
Technology commentator Bill Bennett looks at how tech companies are dominated by male managers, but telco companies are bucking that trend. He'll also look at Spark, Chorus and Sky's results, the GCSB… Audio
Going cold turkey on big tech: Kashmir Hill
New York Times technology journalist Kashmir Hill tells Lynn Freeman about her experiment showing just how much the "frightful five" tech giants control the digital world she interacts with. Acting on… Audio
What3Words uses words instead of addresses to mark locations
Lifted-pints-pumps. Those three incredibly random words mark the location to the front door of our office here in Auckland. A British startup called What3Words has divided the world into 57 trillion… Audio
Ardern disappointed at Culture and Heritage Ministry data breach
The head of the Ministry of Culture and Heritage looks likely to keep her job despite a security breach exposing hundreds of people's private details to fraudsters.
Bernadette Cavanagh revealed the… Audio
Data breach could have lasting impacts
The exposing of sensitive data of hundreds of young people by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage could have a lasting impact on those affected. The data included details of their passports, birth… Audio
