Technology

Yesterday New Zealand marked the international Day of Light - which is a United Nations event to celebrate the science of light. New Zealand in fact has its won committee chair for this day -… Audio

Sarah Putt talks to Kathryn Ryan about supermarket surveillance, Google Assistant making calls for you and Tech Week Audio

Film-maker Shirley Horrocks, documents Sir Paul Callaghan's world of atoms and molecules. Sir Paul, who died in 2012, used nuclear magnetic resonance as a choreographer directs a dance. He saw New… Audio, Gallery

A warning to home owners about stick-on window films which promise to drastically reduce heat loss. Some claim to reduce internal heat loss in winter by up to 44 per cent, at a cost of thousands of… Audio

The government has allocated an additional $15 million in the Budget for public broadcasting, but it is not clear where the new investment will go or when we will see the benefits. Audio

The Civil Aviation Authority says tourists are the worst offenders when it come to launching drones illegally. So what are they doing about it? Audio

A team of specialist researchers at the University of London have developed a new sub-discipline of architecture, reconstructing buildings after conflict or catastrophe. Forensic Architecture creates… Audio

NIWA is about to go live with its new 18 million dollar super-computer tasked with revolutionising weather forecasting. The Cray XC50 is three huge computers built especially for NIWA by the… Audio

Questions raised about the legal minefield associated with Supermarkets using facial recognition technology to target repeat shoplifters. Audio

The Privacy Commissioner says businesses should take great care when using facial recognition technology because there is a high risk of misidentification. It has been revealed that the technology is… Audio

Chances are you’ve never heard of the Independent App Network of NZ, but its members have launched local news apps from Wellington to Ashburton and journalists are being hired to work on them.

Peter Griffin beams in from Google's developer festival I/O 2018 to tell us what the tech company have got in the development pipeline. [Peter Griffin travelled to California with the assistance of… Audio

Gold kiwifruit growers are making very  good money but grower David Jensen says a shortage of labour to harvest fruit won't be solved by simply increasing pay rates. Audio