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Juha Saarinen
Tech blogger for nzherald.co.nz.

Tech writer for NZ Herald.

We are your advocate, Aotearoa. Uncovering stories that matter, asking hard-hitting questions of those in power, live-blogging sport events, monitoring the highs and lows of the NZX and providing Premium expert opinion and analysis. Bringing you distinctive, quality journalism and breaking news from across New Zealand and around the world. With specialists working together to create indepth reads, engaging video, and unmissable podcasts.

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Juha Saarinen: Reviewing the Oppo Find N3
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Juha Saarinen: Reviewing the Oppo Find N3

28 Nov 06:00 AM
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Juha Saarinen: Online scam victims have nothing to be ashamed about
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Juha Saarinen: Online scam victims have nothing to be ashamed about

20 Nov 04:00 PM

OPINION: Online scamming is big business.

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Juha Saarinen: Why Ultra 2 is the Apple Watch to splash out on
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Juha Saarinen: Why Ultra 2 is the Apple Watch to splash out on

14 Nov 04:00 PM

OPINION: And what you need to know.

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Juha Saarinen: 'Arm Inside' threat spells trouble for chip giant Intel
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Juha Saarinen: 'Arm Inside' threat spells trouble for chip giant Intel

07 Nov 06:00 AM

OPINION: Intel’s chickens are coming home to roost.

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Juha Saarinen: How can we keep AIs aligned with human values?
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Juha Saarinen: How can we keep AIs aligned with human values?

31 Oct 04:00 PM

OPINION: What risks does AI pose?

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Juha Saarinen: When you can't trust your cyber security vendors
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Juha Saarinen: When you can't trust your cyber security vendors

24 Oct 04:00 PM

OPINION: Customers have to be able to trust cyber security providers.

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Juha Saarinen: The massive internet attack that hardly anyone noticed
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Juha Saarinen: The massive internet attack that hardly anyone noticed

16 Oct 04:00 PM

OPINION: Tech giants hit by 'distributed denial of service' attack.

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Juha Saarinen: Is this the best option for smartphone photographers?
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Juha Saarinen: Is this the best option for smartphone photographers?

12 Oct 11:45 PM

OPINION: A phone for the smartphone photographers and videographers.

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Juha Saarinen: Merger mania grips tech sector
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Juha Saarinen: Merger mania grips tech sector

03 Oct 02:55 AM

OPINION: The sheer volume of money sloshing around in tech at the moment beggars belief.

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Juha Saarinen: USB-C a welcome but complicated upgrade for Apple's iPhone 15
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Juha Saarinen: USB-C a welcome but complicated upgrade for Apple's iPhone 15

26 Sep 03:07 AM

OPINION: Delving into some hardware quirkiness.

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Juha Saarinen: Musk turns Starlink into a national security worry
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Juha Saarinen: Musk turns Starlink into a national security worry

12 Sep 05:00 PM

OPINION: Even a vile social media cesspit can't drown out Musk critics, Russia concerns.

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Juha Saarinen: How eSims will change your mobile phone experience
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Juha Saarinen: How eSims will change your mobile phone experience

05 Sep 05:00 AM

ANALYSIS: Apple has already gone full eSim in North America, but how does it work here?

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Juha Saarinen: There's a tech void in the election
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Juha Saarinen: There's a tech void in the election

29 Aug 05:00 PM

OPINION: The tech space is pretty much empty of policy proposals.

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Juha Saarinen: Is NZ really missing out by being cautious with cryptocurrencies?
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Juha Saarinen: Is NZ really missing out by being cautious with cryptocurrencies?

22 Aug 07:00 AM

OPINION: Unpacking a recently released report into cryptocurrencies.

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Juha Saarinen: The pros and cons of Samsung's new Galaxy Z Flip5
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Juha Saarinen: The pros and cons of Samsung's new Galaxy Z Flip5

15 Aug 07:00 AM

Opinion: Samsung's flip phone still grabs attention.

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Juha Saarinen: The world is buzzing about LK-99 - what you need to know
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Juha Saarinen: The world is buzzing about LK-99 - what you need to know

08 Aug 05:00 PM

OPINION: The worldwide excitement around LK-99 has been palpable.

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Juha Saarinen: What I learned from scrutinising my phone bill
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Juha Saarinen: What I learned from scrutinising my phone bill

01 Aug 07:00 AM

OPINION: A trip down the telco billing rabbit warren.

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Juha Saarinen: Do mega data centres pose an environmental problem?
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Juha Saarinen: Do mega data centres pose an environmental problem?

25 Jul 07:00 AM

Opinion: Will we be in competition for power and water with demand-hungry tech giants?

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Juha Saarinen: Will wireless optical networking ever be practical?
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Juha Saarinen: Will wireless optical networking ever be practical?

18 Jul 07:00 AM

OPINION: Why aren’t we putting our internal house broadband networks over lightwaves?

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Juha Saarinen: Chip wars threaten to cause supply chain pain
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Juha Saarinen: Chip wars threaten to cause supply chain pain

11 Jul 07:00 AM

There is the potential for serious disruption across the whole of society.

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Juha Saarinen: In search of lost stories in the vast world wide web
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Juha Saarinen: In search of lost stories in the vast world wide web

05 Jul 05:00 PM

OPINION: First stop to locate missing material is the Wayback Machine.

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Juha Saarinen: Twitter’s failure during the Russian mutiny
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Juha Saarinen: Twitter’s failure during the Russian mutiny

27 Jun 05:00 PM

OPINION: People are now following what's happening through old-school outlets.

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Juha Saarinen: How much picture quality is too much on a 65-inch TV?
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Juha Saarinen: How much picture quality is too much on a 65-inch TV?

20 Jun 07:00 AM

OPINION: Our tech columnist reviews the Samsung S95C television.

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Juha Saarinen: Where could Apple's next focus be - AI or gaming?
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Juha Saarinen: Where could Apple's next focus be - AI or gaming?

13 Jun 07:00 AM

There are strong indications that Apple is eyeing up the gaming market more thoroughly.

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Juha Saarinen: Taking a holiday roadie in a Skoda EV
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Juha Saarinen: Taking a holiday roadie in a Skoda EV

06 Jun 05:00 PM

While outside this writer's budget, it is very impressive.

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Juha Saarinen: Nvidia rides the AI wave
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Juha Saarinen: Nvidia rides the AI wave

30 May 05:00 PM

Nvidia sparked investor frenzy as it reported way better results than anyone expected.

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Juha Saarinen: Microsoft 365's confusing price differential between retail and direct sales
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Juha Saarinen: Microsoft 365's confusing price differential between retail and direct sales

23 May 05:00 PM

Rivers of subscription revenue gold.

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Juha Saarinen: 5G - the neither here nor there tech
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Juha Saarinen: 5G - the neither here nor there tech

16 May 05:00 PM

Chances are you wouldn’t have noticed much difference between 5G and 4G.

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Juha Saarinen: Amazon’s Auckland zone cloud computing goes live
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Juha Saarinen: Amazon’s Auckland zone cloud computing goes live

09 May 05:00 PM

The first part of AWS' billion-dollar investment in NZ quietly went live last week.

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Government rush to 5G trips up rural broadband
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Government rush to 5G trips up rural broadband

02 May 05:00 PM

And why it will be a long time to wait to see if things were set up correctly in 2023.

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Juha Saarinen: Twitter skip fire rages on
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Juha Saarinen: Twitter skip fire rages on

26 Apr 05:00 AM

Blue tick farce the latest instalment in the Twitter tragicomedy.

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Juha Saarinen: Is the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra worth its price tag?
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Juha Saarinen: Is the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra worth its price tag?

18 Apr 07:00 AM

It's certainly a pricey zoom phone but a touch less expensive than the iPhone 14 Pro Max.

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Juha Saarinen: Let’s fix our smart and vulnerable vehicles
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Juha Saarinen: Let’s fix our smart and vulnerable vehicles

12 Apr 06:00 AM

“If it’s smart, it’s vulnerable” says an infosec veteran.

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Juha Saarinen: Data breach disasters spawn local tech security solutions
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Juha Saarinen: Data breach disasters spawn local tech security solutions

04 Apr 06:00 PM

MATTR is making a name for itself with its digital ID and verifiable credentials tech.

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Juha Saarinen: We need to remodel online for privacy and security
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Juha Saarinen: We need to remodel online for privacy and security

28 Mar 04:00 PM

Credit providers need vast amounts of information on borrowers. And that can be a problem.

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Juha Saarinen: The year ‘hallucinate’ became a tech term
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Juha Saarinen: The year ‘hallucinate’ became a tech term

21 Mar 04:00 PM

But why are people concerned about the AI hallucinations?

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Juha Saarinen: Did we just dodge an ‘extinction level event’ for startups?
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Juha Saarinen: Did we just dodge an ‘extinction level event’ for startups?

14 Mar 06:00 AM

The SVB failure has uncovered a serious vulnerability threatening an important sector.

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Juha Saarinen: How does Oppo’s flip phone stack up against the competition?
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Juha Saarinen: How does Oppo’s flip phone stack up against the competition?

07 Mar 04:30 AM

Juha Saarinen: Only four phonemakers currently field foldable phones.

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Juha Saarinen: A look at the new Apple MacBook Pro
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Juha Saarinen: A look at the new Apple MacBook Pro

28 Feb 06:00 AM

Apple gear sells for top dollar, so is the MacBook Pro worth it?

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Juha Saarinen: Is Netflix pushing us back to piracy?
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Juha Saarinen: Is Netflix pushing us back to piracy?

20 Feb 04:00 PM

Netflix has now tightened up where you can watch and that’s just a single household.

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Juha Saarinen: We weren’t prepared for this cyclone, but we need to be in future
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Juha Saarinen: We weren’t prepared for this cyclone, but we need to be in future

14 Feb 04:00 PM

Opinion: The climate emergency is hitting home hard, writes Juha Saarinen.

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Juha Saarinen: Excuses and techscuses - when technology drives you crazy
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Juha Saarinen: Excuses and techscuses - when technology drives you crazy

08 Feb 03:20 AM

OPINION: To have been a fly on the wall in the Auckland mayor’s office during the floods.

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Juha Saarinen: We are racing blindly into an AI future
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Juha Saarinen: We are racing blindly into an AI future

24 Jan 04:00 PM

Outsourcing, appalling lyrics, and disinformation: What does the future hold for AI?

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Race to protect against cybercriminals as crooks eye up AI tech
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Race to protect against cybercriminals as crooks eye up AI tech

17 Jan 04:00 PM

Have you been "privacied"? Cybercriminals aren't always generic bandits.

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Juha Saarinen: Supply chain pain set to continue
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Juha Saarinen: Supply chain pain set to continue

10 Jan 04:00 PM

Opinion: Chip wars heat up as globalisation couldn't deliver resilient supply chains.

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Juha Saarinen: How about a new report that looks at the positives and negatives of UFB?
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Juha Saarinen: How about a new report that looks at the positives and negatives of UFB?

04 Jan 04:00 PM

UFB kicked off 11 years ago and the network now passes 87 per cent of the population

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Tech predictions for 2023
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Tech predictions for 2023

14 Dec 03:45 AM

Juha Saarinen wonders if it could be the year when blockchain becomes unfashionable.

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Juha Saarinen: I AI, therefore I am
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Juha Saarinen: I AI, therefore I am

06 Dec 04:00 PM

Artificial intelligence is now in the hands of everyone.

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Juha Saarinen: Please launch the Tesla phone, Elon
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Juha Saarinen: Please launch the Tesla phone, Elon

29 Nov 04:00 PM

Facing the boot from Apple and Google's app stores, what should Musk do to save Twitter?

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Juha Saarinen: Australia gets ready to hack back at cyber criminals
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Juha Saarinen: Australia gets ready to hack back at cyber criminals

22 Nov 04:00 PM

Australia goes on the offensive in the InfoSec Wars.

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Juha Saarinen: Content warning - Twitter and Mastodon
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Juha Saarinen: Content warning - Twitter and Mastodon

15 Nov 04:00 PM

A week on Mastodon, and I've gone and quit as Twitter burns and crashes.

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Review: New iPhone 14 Pro delayed but worth waiting for
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Review: New iPhone 14 Pro delayed but worth waiting for

08 Nov 04:00 PM

Apple isn't immune to Covid-19.

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Juha Saarinen: As Musk kills Twitter, social media will survive
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Juha Saarinen: As Musk kills Twitter, social media will survive

01 Nov 04:00 PM

What to do as the bird site unravels.

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Juha Saarinen: Internet data leaks set to become even costlier
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Juha Saarinen: Internet data leaks set to become even costlier

25 Oct 04:00 PM

With record fines incoming, ignore information security at your peril.

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NZ's public sector could be sitting on internet address treasure trove
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NZ's public sector could be sitting on internet address treasure trove

19 Oct 04:18 AM

The New Zealand public sector could make millions by selling its Internet addresses.

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Juha Saarinen: Make software more cloudy - pretty please
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Juha Saarinen: Make software more cloudy - pretty please

10 Oct 04:00 PM

Upselling to features that won't be used is not the way of the cloud.

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Opinion: A hybrid WRC Rally New Zealand
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Opinion: A hybrid WRC Rally New Zealand

05 Oct 04:14 AM

Sustainable car rallies come to New Zealand.

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Juha Saarinen: Why crypto currencies are a fatally flawed concept
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Juha Saarinen: Why crypto currencies are a fatally flawed concept

27 Sep 04:00 PM

It's esoteric and geeky, and also supremely inelegant and inefficient.

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Juha Saarinen: The missing link in Apple's photo and video chain
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Juha Saarinen: The missing link in Apple's photo and video chain

20 Sep 07:00 AM

Showing off your iPhone 14 Pro masterpieces isn't easy.

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Juha Saarinen: Adventures in domesti-tech
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Juha Saarinen: Adventures in domesti-tech

13 Sep 05:00 PM

Battle of the Robovacs, and animal vacuuming fun.

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Cloudflare caught in Kiwi Farms controversy
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Cloudflare caught in Kiwi Farms controversy

05 Sep 05:55 AM

How far does the free speech defence go?

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Juha Saarinen: Is community-generated power the future?
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Juha Saarinen: Is community-generated power the future?

30 Aug 05:00 PM

Solar power is coming, but it's not going to happen overnight.

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Juha Saarinen: Spark brings 'true' standalone 5G to NZ
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Juha Saarinen: Spark brings 'true' standalone 5G to NZ

23 Aug 05:00 PM

Next-gen 5G arriving, slowly but surely.

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How to not get hooked by phishers
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How to not get hooked by phishers

16 Aug 05:00 PM

Get keys to your digital kingdom.

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How internet hackers have evolved and what you should do
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How internet hackers have evolved and what you should do

09 Aug 05:00 PM

They built it, you came, and OMG, look at what happened.

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Juha Saarinen: When tech gets too user friendly
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Juha Saarinen: When tech gets too user friendly

02 Aug 05:00 PM

The joys of easy-to-use consumer network gear.

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Is the internet on its last legs?
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Is the internet on its last legs?

26 Jul 05:00 PM

"One thing that's really come back to bite us hard": Report reveals how internet is dying.

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Juha Saarinen: Cyber security experts Cert NZ have some pretty oddball notions
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Juha Saarinen: Cyber security experts Cert NZ have some pretty oddball notions

19 Jul 05:00 PM

Passwords are a bad idea and not even experts always know how manage them.

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Juha Saarinen: How to protect your data
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Juha Saarinen: How to protect your data

12 Jul 07:00 AM

A huge bugbear for many years now, the problem's only getting worse.

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Juha Saarinen: Blockchain, the tech that could but didn't deliver
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Juha Saarinen: Blockchain, the tech that could but didn't deliver

05 Jul 05:35 AM

Is blockchain of any use?

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Juha Saarinen: Big Tech has its eye on your house
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