Technology

Why is it that when so many industries have had huge increases in efficiency thanks to computers and the internet it still takes the same amount of time to get a tertiary education? What's more, with… Audio

Professor Peter Wilf at Pennsylvania State University is using the latest machine learning technology to identify ancient leaves. A computer program he developed can scan leaves and categorise them… Audio

Specialist laboratory equipment costs an absolute fortune. The market's small and the markup's big, and a large portion of research money ends up getting swallowed buying kit. That's why an increasing… Audio

Peter Griffin on a study of New Zealanders' internet use and online habits, with people more worried by corporate tracking and monitoring than anything our government is doing. Also the instant… Audio

Toby Manhire interviews Emily Bell, Professor of Professional Practice and Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, at Columbia Journalism School, who recently delivered the lecture, The End of… Audio

Toby Manhire interviews the stateless Palestinian writer, human rights activist and entrepreneur, who became prominent for tweeting and commenting on the Arab Spring, and was then expelled from the… Audio

Shane Loeffler, an undergraduate student from the University of Minnesota, has developed a phone app which helps passengers to identify and explore identifying features from the air as they fly to… Audio

A 12 metre long launch has been returned to Tauranga marina "mostly" in one piece this morning after becoming a victim of what's known as "electronically assisted grounding" - basically a vessel's GPS… Audio

The Government is planning changes for regulating the telecommunications sector from 2020. Audio

Sarah Putt on Chatbots in call centres, how technology can boost New Zealand's government agency productivity and Uber's sharing of users' information Audio

There's no known cause ... and no cure. Autism remains one of the most complex disorders for researchers to tackle. But what if we could see inside the brains of sufferers to see if therapies are… Audio

Self declared "Cloud Hunter" Associate Professor in Visual Arts at Charles Darwin University, Dr. Ioannis Michaloudis creates airy artworks from nanomaterial silica aerogel. Audio

Bass players have always been dismissed as the boring ones in any band; hidden side of stage, robotically plucking away, overshadowed by the singer and the lead guitarist. Things might just be getting… Audio

Peter Griffin with the technological challenges raised and overcome by this week's revelations surrounding the Panama Papers, a huge collection of millions of documents leaked to a German newspaper… Audio