Archive for July 2018

Apple is on the cusp of becoming the world’s first trillion-dollar company after smashing Wall Street forecasts with a leap in profits.The US tech giant unveiled quarterly results revealing that iPhone sales had jumped to 41.3 million,…

The Amazon Web Services Transformation Day was held in Auckland last week and, as always, it was a popular event packed with geeks from across the country.As you’d expect, there was plenty of chest-thumping about how great AWS…

Unemployed web developer David Casarez moved to Silicon Valley in California in the hope of breaking into the tech industry but ended up homeless.Desperate for work, he took to the streets to ask for help and after his unorthodox…

Kiwi companies should be upfront with customers about what their data-harvesting artificial intelligence programmes do, a new report finds. The review , just published by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ),…

For all their flaws, it’s hard to imagine a world without Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.But if you’re keen to experience what that’s like, just book a flight to mainland China, where the social media giants — as well as Google,…

Cracking down on hate, abuse and online trolls is also hurting Twitter’s standing with investors.The company’s stock plunged Friday after it reported a decline in its monthly users and warned that the number could fall further in…

The heavens are treating star-gazers to one stunner of a variety show.This co-incidental celestial festival boasts an eclipsed “blood moon” sharing a sky with the Sun on this morning; Mars coming at its closest point for the next…

Have you ever put your car keys in the fridge while leaving milk on the outside, or been asked by a waiter whether you’d like the chicken or fish and just answered yes?Typically, such accidents are explained away as unintentional.In…

Aucklanders could get as little as five days’ warning of a major volcanic eruption in the city.While earlier reviews have suggested signs of an imminent eruption in the Auckland Volcanic Field could occur anywhere between six days…

A Coinbase internal investigation has found that no insider trading of Bitcoin Cash took place in December, 2017, while a class action lawsuit is still being pursued