Technology

A new rest home is planning to be the first in New Zealand to use an iPad-style tablet to connect residents with family and nurse staff at the touch of a button, allowing them to order dinner, watch… Audio

How in a world becoming increasingly more reliant on data, we can best use this data to address some of the major challenges we face, including developing renewable energy, climate change impacts… Audio

Teresa Cowie explores whether mobile phones should be banned in schools. Video, Audio

Tech commentator Bill Bennett on the changes in how people are watching TV, Trump accusing Google of burying good stories about him and Fortnite on Android is open to hackers. Audio

Clare Curran was demoted from the Cabinet after failing to record a Beehive meeting with Derek Handley, a candidate for the job of Government Chief Technology Officer. And now the tech sector is up in… Audio

There are two things wrong with Facebook; How it works and how people use it. This is the view of Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of… Audio

A murder-accused person is fighting a battle in the courts to prevent the publication of the identity of their co-accused. A curious anomaly means a Google search for their co-accused's name also… Audio

High-achieving tertiary science students are now eligible for Nasa's international internships, under a new agreement between the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment and the US space… Video, Audio

Fifty years ago, in December 1968, the US launched its Apollo 8 mission to the Moon. Commander Frank Borman, command module pilot James Lovell, and lunar module pilot Bill Anders flew 230,000 miles… Audio, Gallery

Listeners are worried about their elderly relatives who only have landlines. But those landlines may fail them in a power cut. Craig Young of TUANZ talks about the loopholes in the VOIP digital phone… Audio

Facebook is constantly assessing you and Google is constantly monitoring you. And a a Vanderbilt University computer scientist says if you have a device you're powerless against being monitored. Audio

More than a third of New Zealanders are concerned their partners are spending too much time on their smartphone. Thirty-nine percent of 2,200 New Zealanders surveyed by 2degrees believe the amount of… Audio

Tesla's boss Elon Musk apparently works 120 hours a week. Working on projects for the betterment of human beings. Meanwhile, a Guardian columnist reassuringly tells us not to worry about robots… Audio

How technology can enhance the reading experience for children. Alejandro Davila from Conical Interactive Studios wrote children's book The Green Fairy - which can simply be read as a book, or you can… Video, Audio, Gallery