Technology

A Lion Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea last month, killing all 189 people on board, was not airworthy and should have been grounded. Those findings come from Indonesian investigators who have… Audio

The Minister responsible for the GCSB is insisting the decision to ban the tech giant Huawei from Spark's 5G rollout is because of the technology not because the company is Chinese. The electronic spy… Audio

The Minister responsible for the GCSB is insisting the decision to ban the tech giant Hauwei from Spark's 5G rollout is because of the technology not because the company is Chinese. The electronic spy… Audio

New research argues a universal DNA database in each country might be less discriminatory than current forensic practice.  Audio

Instagram has announced an initiative that will target fake likes and comments. The company said it has developed tools that identify accounts that use third-party services and apps to artificially… Audio

A Chinese professor has presented the world with its first genetically edited babies - twin girls whose DNA has been altered to prevent them from contracting HIV. But it's been described as… Audio

On Tuesday (NZ time) NASA will attempt to land a robotic probe on Mars. The InSight lander is the first mission to be dedicated to investigating the rocky world's internal structure. But first the… Audio

A new film being made in Wellington will enable the audience to don a headset and become part of the onscreen action. Science and Innovation reporter Charlie Dreaver went out to Miramar Creative… Video, Audio

High tech digital pioneer Ian Taylor is bringing virtual reality to Otago prison to help inmates learn to read while they fix cars. It's estimated two thirds of prisoners need literacy and numeracy… Audio

Dr Paul Smith, is head of testing at Consumer New Zealand. He says although we live in an age of gadgets and appliances, many don't last. And whole classes of appliances are now uneconomic to repair… Audio

Professor Diana Ürge-Vorsatz is the director of the Centre of Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy at the Central European University in Budapest. She is also Vice Chair of the IPCC. She's in… Audio

'This Is Love' is made by the same team that makes 'Criminal', a show that we featured on The Podcast Hour a few months' back. 'Criminal' tells true stories about right and wrong, and how to tell the… Audio

Remember the fearful run-up to the moment when the calendar clicked over to Saturday 1 January 2000 and the whole of modern civilisation as we knew it would fall off a cliff? In Headlong: Surviving… Audio

Elizabeth Denham is the UK Information Commissioner and lead the raid on Cambridge Analytica in March this year. She gained a warrant to search the London-based data analytics company's records over… Audio