Kiwi News - Page 79

Is NZ's transition to a living laboratory for blockchain a good thing?

New Zealand is emerging as a global blockchain hub, with Kiwi firms like Blockchain Lab NZ raising NZD $410 million and creating groundbreaking platforms.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Tue, 27th Mar 2018

Malware

Kiwis 'paying for someone else's profit' as 2018 becomes the year of cryptomining

Cryptomining might just be one of the biggest trends in cybercrime this year, and New Zealand is not immune from its reach.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Tue, 27th Mar 2018

Uber

Green Acres GO aims to be the Uber of home maintenance

Green Acres GO aims to unlock an untapped workforce, providing opportunities for people to supplement their incomes by providing home services.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 3 min read • Mon, 26th Mar 2018

Social enterprise

Christchurch social enterprise convention nabs prize at global event awards

Christchurch's Social Enterprise World Forum 2017 secures a strong second for Best Conference at Eventex Award, showcasing positive global change.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Mon, 26th Mar 2018

Robotics

Yamaha invests in Tauranga-based robot company

Tauranga-based RPL is an early stage R&D company that develops robotics and automation solutions for highly variable agricultural environments.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Mon, 26th Mar 2018

Fintech

OMG Tech bridges gender gap early by keeping girls curious

By the time girls reach high school, they've already made major decisions about life direction – so it's vital to foster an interest in tech early.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Fri, 23rd Mar 2018

IT Automation

Callaghan Innovation's borrow-a-cobot scheme speeding up automation

Callaghan Innovation's cobot trial programme accelerates automation for NZ manufacturers, exemplified by Assa Abloy's successful deployment of UR5 cobots.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Fri, 23rd Mar 2018

3D Printing

Kiwi Startup Spotlight: HI Jewellery puts an aesthetic spin on the term 'wearable tech'

HIJ is offering a unique and new style of jewellery for digital natives, and forward-thinking tech-loving individuals.

By Kai Ping Lew • 4 min read • Thu, 22nd Mar 2018

Artificial Intelligence

High demand for Google's machine learning processor in NZ

Google's Tensor Processing Units are hardware accelerators optimised to speed up and scale up Machine learning workloads.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Thu, 22nd Mar 2018

Fuji Xerox

Kiwi's 3D printing hobby turns into thriving business

Within three months of buying his 3D printer, Hayden had to buy another one simply to keep up with the demand he'd generated.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 22nd Mar 2018

Callaghan Innovation

New Zealand R&D investment driven by SMBs - Callaghan

Small and medium businesses in New Zealand are driving a significant increase in research and development investment, according to Callaghan Innovation.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Wed, 21st Mar 2018

Breach Prevention

New Zealand's Privacy Bill to get first reading in Parliament

New Zealand's updated Privacy Bill is about to begin its first reading in Parliament with Andrew Little as the MP in charge.

By Sara Barker • 5 min read • Wed, 21st Mar 2018

Digital Entertainment

NZ's own pay-per-view movie streaming service has launched

Available on desktop and mobile to every New Zealander with internet access, Stuff Pix serves up the latest blockbuster movies.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Wed, 21st Mar 2018

Vodafone

What's your perfect digital job? Vodafone's new online tool will tell you

The Future Jobs Finder offers a simple but comprehensive gateway to new skills and opportunities for employment in the digital economy.

By Kai Ping Lew • 4 min read • Wed, 21st Mar 2018

Hackathon

Chch tech brains team up to solve city's challenges in hackathon

WaiWatch was announced the overall winner for their innovative solution to the problem of inefficient and high volume residential water use.

By Kai Ping Lew • 4 min read • Tue, 20th Mar 2018

Cartech

Self-driving car accident claims the life of a pedestrian

According to University of Auckland senior lecturer Paul Ralph, It's critical to keep these things in perspective.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Tue, 20th Mar 2018

Artificial Intelligence

Kiwi facial recognition program can help you repair your relationship… with cats

The team of programmers who created the digital technology spent months training the computer to make the physical distinctions.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Tue, 20th Mar 2018

Crypto

Ilumony founders launch NZ cryptocurrency investment platform

The new platform, called Invsta, is in pre-beta testing and will be live to the general public later this year.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Tue, 20th Mar 2018

Entrepreneurship

Crowd and community-driven ideas shine at Innes48 startup competition

Their ideas addressed the issues of a modern world and responded through taking a collaborative, community approach.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Tue, 20th Mar 2018

Health Technologies

Weta Workshop opens new mixed reality facility called Weta Gameshop

Weta Workshop has officially opened its newest facility, Weta Gameshop, thought to be the world's first specialist mixed reality development studio.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 3 min read • Tue, 20th Mar 2018