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Raglan's Armie Armstrong carves it up in Auckland Harbour today using a surfboard fitted with a hydrofoil. Photo / Doug Sherring

TECHNOLOGY

Hydrofoil surfer carves it up in Auckland Harbour

25 Sep, 2018 8:41pm

2 minutes to read

For the second time in three weeks, National leader Simon Bridges has accused Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of misleading the public. Photos / File

TECHNOLOGY

Audrey Young: No correction by Ardern but damage still done

25 Sep, 2018 7:27pm
4 minutes to read

By now it is almost irrelevant whether Ardern corrects her answers, writes Audrey Young.

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai. Photo / AP

TECHNOLOGY

Google to send chief executive to Congress

25 Sep, 2018 2:57pm
3 minutes to read

Google has faced criticism on grounds that it silences right-leaning news and users.

National leader Simon Bridge says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has misled Parliament over the Derek Handley saga.

TECHNOLOGY

PM misled Parliament over Handley saga: Bridges

25 Sep, 2018 1:11pm

5 minutes to read

TECHNOLOGY

300,000 sports pirates: Sky TV and Spark at odds over crackdown

25 Sep, 2018 11:35am
5 minutes to read

TECHNOLOGY

Hardware face-off: Which smartphone does it better?

25 Sep, 2018 11:06am
2 minutes to read

TECHNOLOGY

Court of Appeal rejects NZME and Stuff merger challenge

25 Sep, 2018 8:30am
3 minutes to read

TECHNOLOGY

'It feels a bit Star Trek' - texts between Clare Curran and Derek Handley released

25 Sep, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

TECHNOLOGY

Exclusive: Emails, texts revealed - Handley opens up on Government job bungle

25 Sep, 2018 5:00am
5 minutes to read

TECHNOLOGY

Overseas campaign to recruit 400 teachers

24 Sep, 2018 6:51pm
4 minutes to read

TECHNOLOGY

Uber adds 111 calls to its app

24 Sep, 2018 5:13pm
2 minutes to read

Not related to drunk driver incident, company says.

TECHNOLOGY

Why Spark, Vodafone and 2degrees don't support Apple's e-sim

24 Sep, 2018 2:15pm
5 minutes to read

NZ is missing out on one of the hottest technologies of 2018.

TECHNOLOGY

Domino's infamous spammer 'Sarah' returns

24 Sep, 2018 11:28am
3 minutes to read

Christchurch man receives a phishing email asking him to confirm his suburb.

JRNY co-founder Michael Lovergrove. Photo / Supplied

TECHNOLOGY

Small Business: Artificial intelligence journey only just beginning

24 Sep, 2018 5:00am
4 minutes to read

Michael Lovegrove talks about the potential for artificial intelligence.

Sharesies chief executive Brooke Roberts says listing the company on the share market could be an option in the future. Photo / Supplied

TECHNOLOGY

Sharemarket listing an option for investment start-up

23 Sep, 2018 2:30pm
2 minutes to read

Sharesies says a sharemarket listing could be on the cards in its future.

Apple's latest wearable: the Watch Series 4.

TECHNOLOGY

NZ puffs behind the pack in wearable tech

23 Sep, 2018 1:00pm
2 minutes to read

Worldwide sales for fitness bands and smartwatches rose - except in New Zealand.

Donald Trump's travel ban, which generated a public outcry, temporarily barred visitors and immigrants from seven majority Muslim countries. Photo / AP

TECHNOLOGY

Google executives planned to counter Trump's travel ban by altering search results

23 Sep, 2018 8:32am
2 minutes to read

Senior staff discussed how the search engine could point users to pro-immigration groups.

The iPhone XS (left) and XS Max. Photo / AP

TECHNOLOGY

How much is too much for an iPhone?

22 Sep, 2018 10:23am
5 minutes to read

The NZ$2799 price tag on Apple's latest iPhone turned heads when it was announced.

Employees assist customers at an Apple store in New York on Friday. Photo / Jeenah Moon / Bloomberg

TECHNOLOGY

iPhone XS buyers undeterred by eye-watering prices

22 Sep, 2018 9:01am
5 minutes to read

The annual theatre of iPhone launch day remains a bright spot for Apple.

Science News

Brain imaging identifies areas of the brain that can contain millions of cells, with many networks. Photo / 123RF

LIFESTYLE

Scientists throw light on the way memories work

25 Sep, 2018 5:00am
5 minutes to read

Recall comes down to activity of single cells.

THE COUNTRY | Horticulture

Bio fertiliser: Is the proof in the pasture?

24 Sep, 2018 11:04am
8 minutes to read

Growing green pasture with biological matter. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Police and ambulance staff at South End School in Carterton. Students have fallen sick after an unknown substance was dropped from a plane. Photo / Ross Setford

NEW ZEALAND

Carterton children potentially exposed to harmful gas

23 Sep, 2018 6:38pm
2 minutes to read

Reports sound suspiciously similar to hydrogen sulphide, a scientist claims.

16% of hearing loss is caused by excessive noise. Photo / 123RF

LIFESTYLE

Big Read: How noise pollution is killing us

23 Sep, 2018 12:00pm
10 minutes to read

The level of noise around us is a ticking health time bomb.

Studies as well as anecdotal evidence suggest the number of monarch butterflies has fallen. Photo / AP

WORLD

Where have all the insects gone?

22 Sep, 2018 5:00am
6 minutes to read

A staple of summer - swarms of bugs - seems to be a thing of the past.

The net's developers were able to capture it working in video. Photo / AP

WORLD

Waste of space - junk net passes first test

22 Sep, 2018 5:00am
2 minutes to read

A tossed net has managed to capture space junk in orbit-cleanup experiment.

Researchers say a synthetic sandalwood smell commonly found in incense sticks and air fresheners stimulates hair growth.Photo / Getty Images

LIFESTYLE

Nanogirl: A sniff of hope for hair loss

22 Sep, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

COMMENT: How smells could save your hair.

The recent release of new screen time management tools available on our devices and social media platforms can help with this. 123RF

TECHNOLOGY

How to ease off 'zombie checking' your phone

22 Sep, 2018 5:00am
5 minutes to read

How new tools can help you control technology over-use.

Activist Sara Howell and Greenpeace executive director Russel Norman have been discharged without conviction over their protest swim to disrupt an oil survey ship off the Wairarapa coast.

BUSINESS

Activists escape conviction over oil ship protest

21 Sep, 2018 3:07pm
2 minutes to read

Norman and climate activist Sara Howell were discharged without conviction.

Caiti Brown, 22, refuses to let perthes disease dictate her life. Photo / Supplied

NEW ZEALAND

Helping children out of chronic pain

20 Sep, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

Every year around 50 Kiwi kids are diagnosed with perthes disease.

NEW ZEALAND

Three Kiwis bag Cambridge scholarships

19 Sep, 2018 8:22pm
2 minutes to read

Scholarships mark outstanding academic ability, leadership potential, integrity and vision

Justice Minister Andrew Little - two weeks and nothing to say on bail, parole and sentencing changes. Photo / Mark Mitchell

NEW ZEALAND

Big Read: Andrew Little ducks for cover on law changes

19 Sep, 2018 7:30pm
9 minutes to read

Justice Minister Andrew Little's justice reform struggles on law changes.

TECHNOLOGY

How to ease off 'zombie checking' your phone

22 Sep, 2018 5:00am
5 minutes to read

How new tools can help you control technology over-use.

Helen Moore bought her 2006 Toyota Rush from Quality Cars earlier this month. Photo / Supplied

TECHNOLOGY

Toyota buyer stung with $2228 bill for two new keys

21 Sep, 2018 10:45am
3 minutes to read

Auckland woman stuck with $2228 bill after car dealer doesn't give her master key.

Apple's new iPhone Xs Max, priced up to $2799. Some are wary punters will pay that much for a phone, but its $2100 predecessor defied expectations to become the NZ market leader. Photo / Chris Keall.

TECHNOLOGY

Close tussle in NZ's ultra-premium phone market

22 Sep, 2018 9:07am
5 minutes to read

Market tracker reveals surprising trends.

The $178 PlayStation One Classic is almost half the size of Sony's original 1994 console, making it small enough to hold in one hand. Photo / Sony

TECHNOLOGY

Sony to bring back iconic PlayStation One with pre-loaded games

20 Sep, 2018 7:52am
3 minutes to read

Your favourite PS1 games are making a comeback and will already be pre-loaded.

Stretchsense co-founder and chief executive Ben O'Brien was forced to layoff almost all his staff after Yusaku Maezawa's Start Today pulled the plug on a buyout.

TECHNOLOGY

Musk's moon tourist is $109m bogey man for NZ startup

20 Sep, 2018 6:14am
3 minutes to read

The quirky Yusaku Maezawa showed his more hardnosed side in May, costing a lot of jobs.

TECHNOLOGY

Musk doesn't have to look far to save Tesla

19 Sep, 2018 6:18pm
4 minutes to read

As Musk's car company lurches from crisis to crisis his other interest is rocketing away.

Gadgets

Many believed that Apple was set to release a refreshed iPhone SE 2, as it looks to reach more low-end consumers. Now, the chances of that happening seem much slimmer. Photo / Getty Images

TECHNOLOGY

Apple kills off the headphone jack by removing four older iPhones

16 Sep, 2018 4:46pm
3 minutes to read

Apple is saying goodbye to the headphone jack for good.

Samsung's new Note9 includes a colour-coded S-Pen that is bluetooth enabled and charged within seconds.

TECHNOLOGY

Is Samsung's Note9 worth the $2000 price tag?

5 Sep, 2018 4:00am
3 minutes to read

Samsung's new Note9 is a whopper of a phone, in every way imaginable.

One in three Kiwi students have dropped their phone in the toilet, according to a survey. Photo / 123RF

TECHNOLOGY

One in three student phones fall in dunny

2 Sep, 2018 5:00am
2 minutes to read

The loo, the concert, the night out - all danger zones for our precious phones.

Blackberry saw the writing on the wall a few years ago. Photo / Bloomberg

TECHNOLOGY

It's BlackBerry, but not as you know it

22 Aug, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

BlackBerry today is about security and device management software.

The new Samsung Galaxy Note9 is packed with great features. Photo / Bloomberg

TECHNOLOGY

Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy Note9

15 Aug, 2018 5:00am
5 minutes to read

The new Samsung is packed with great features, but will it dethrone the might of Apple?

TRAVEL

Travel review: Travelmat by Thermalay

3 Aug, 2018 5:00am
2 minutes to read

The Travelmat came with the sort of claim that is almost impossible to resist.

TECHNOLOGY

Apple kills off the headphone jack by removing four older iPhones

16 Sep, 2018 4:46pm
3 minutes to read

Apple is saying goodbye to the headphone jack for good.

TECHNOLOGY

Is Samsung's Note9 worth the $2000 price tag?

5 Sep, 2018 4:00am
3 minutes to read

Samsung's new Note9 is a whopper of a phone, in every way imaginable.

TECHNOLOGY

One in three student phones fall in dunny

2 Sep, 2018 5:00am
2 minutes to read

The loo, the concert, the night out - all danger zones for our precious phones.

TECHNOLOGY

It's BlackBerry, but not as you know it

22 Aug, 2018 5:00am
3 minutes to read

BlackBerry today is about security and device management software.

TECHNOLOGY

Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy Note9

15 Aug, 2018 5:00am
5 minutes to read

The new Samsung is packed with great features, but will it dethrone the might of Apple?

TRAVEL

Travel review: Travelmat by Thermalay

3 Aug, 2018 5:00am
2 minutes to read

The Travelmat came with the sort of claim that is almost impossible to resist.

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