Technology
Man goes to ATM to withdraw money and has real problems
A South Canterbury man has found out the hard way that automatic teller machines are sometimes just not that automatic. Audio
New technology with Sarah Putt
Sarah Putt talks about micro-credentials, Air New Zealand trialing digital humans, and what we want in a national Chief Technology Officer. Audio
Civil defence test wakes up vodafone customers at 1:30am.
Civil defence test at 1:30 this morning wakes up a large number of vodafone customers. Audio
Great Ideas - Part 8: 'Find your niche'
This week, Great Ideas looks at how technology might impact the work that we do, where we do it, and how we survive when we can't work. Audio
Civil Defence sorry for midnight notifications
Civil Defence has apologised for mistakenly sending smartphone test alerts in the early hours of Wednesday morning. A message sent at 1.32am on Wednesday read: "This is a test message for the… Audio
Can a computer predict if your relationship is doomed?
Computer says no to your relationship - can AI really predict if you and your partner will stay together? Audio
Editing our genes: medical issues
Should we do something just because we can? Such as engineering DNA - something now within reach. Kim Hill talks to Josephine Johnston, Peter Fineran, Colin Gavaghan and Jennie Harre Hindmarsh. Audio
Making a century-old war relevant today
Auckland War Memorial Museum is about to unveil its new gallery, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele. Pou Kanohi New Zealand at War is making history. It's the first… Audio, Gallery
Sensing water quality
Over the past decade water quality and the health of our streams, lakes and rivers has become a major deal for many New Zealanders, and as the recent election campaign showed it's become a political… Audio
Space entrepreneur promises city-to-city travel in 'minutes'
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says his company plans to build a fleet of rockets powerful enough to carry people between major cities on Earth within an hour.
Dunedin's tech girl superheroes
Eleven-year-old Neva Bertram and ten-year-old Iris Gallagher have made the finals in this year's Next Tech Girl Superhero Competition with their app GIRLS – Girls in Real Life Situations. Audio
Tech talk with Paul Brislen
Paul Brislen talks about rural broadband and why some parts of New Zealand still get no coverage. Audio
New technology with Mark Pesce
Mark Pesce talks to Lynn Freeman through the pros and cons of Apple's new FaceID and TrueDepth™ camera; how CBS's Showtime was caught mining crypto-coins in viewers' web browsers; and piracy websites… Audio
Nelson tech company wins major US deal
A small New Zealand tech company has united with a major US firm to take its patented technology to the world. Nelson-based CORE Transport Technologies has developed a bluetooth device that can track… Audio
Immigration NZ, MBIE use fake social media profiles
Immigration New Zealand and MBIE use false social media profiles for investigations and risk assessment, the ministry has confirmed.
The app that maps happiness
Many of us are at our happiest in a natural environment on a sunny day far away from work, according to ratings provided to the smartphone app Mappiness. Audio
Twitter tests 280-character tweet limit
Social media site Twitter is trialling longer character limits to help users "easily express themselves".
NZ ranks first for 'digital world' skills
New Zealand's education system is the best in the world for preparing young people for an increasingly digital and globalised world, a new study has found.
Great Ideas - Part 7: 'You have to actually climb trees'
In the first episode of Great Ideas season 2, Megan Whelan discusses the future of leisure with three experts from AUT. Once the robots have taken all of our jobs, what will we do with all that time?
…Rocket Lab counts down to new test flight
NZ company Rocket Lab aims to deploy weather-mapping and ship-tracking satellites in its second launch.
