Technology

Vodafone rolls out Next Gen 5G Tech in Palmerston North

Businesses and locals can now get connected to use Vodafone 5G technology in parts of Palmerston North. The technology is set to expand in the wider Manawatū-Whanganui region as part…

Facebook wants you to read articles before sharing to combat misinformation

Facebook is testing a new pop-up feature starting from today. It will notify a user by telling them if they have not read an article before sharing. Users will be…

Hundreds of NZ Students join ‘Virus experiment’ to predict outbreaks – video

The University of Auckland is involving hundreds of students in an experimental trial to predict and minimalise outbreaks of viruses such as Covid-19. An app called Safe Blues will be…

Sky launches new Fibre Broadband service

Sky has announced they will be soft-launching its new fibre broadband service after talks were happening for months. Prior to the public announcement, the company offered its own branded broadband…

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp experiencing worldwide outage

Social Media platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were experiencing an outage and was reportedly down. Users started to report the issue shortly after 9:30 am, being unable to refresh their…

Yahoo Answers shuts down for good

Since the internet started, the longest-running Question and Answer platform will be set to shut down for good on May 4. Yahoo Answers has been operating since 2005, but will…

Facebook data of 533 million accounts leaked online

Facebook has had a massive data leak leaving 533 million accounts at risk of privacy concerns and other means. Full names, locations, birth dates, phone numbers and email addresses were…

World’s first ‘5G powered’ Tattoo – video

The first-ever remote tattoo has become a reality. It is called the ‘impossible tattoo' by T-Mobile Netherlands. A fresh glimpse at new possibilities will offer and enable the future to…

New ‘DataHub’ launched for Property insights and analytics

New Zealand's Real Estate Institute announced that they had launched DataHub, a central database for property data analytics. The DataHub brings together information that can include multiple sources of data…