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SuperMarket Uses AI Meal Planner App Which Provides Recipe for Chlorine Gas
A New Zealand Supermarket has made a big mistake with its AI meal planner which has led to the app creating several concerning and unusual dishes based on the customer’s available items. AI Meal Planner Creates Chlorine Gas As reported by The Guardian, New Zealand supermarket Pak ‘n’ Save has…
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New Zealand Joins Numbers Blocking Huawei Telecoms Tech
New Zealand Blocks Huawei Telecoms Technology Huawei is, by far and away, one of the worlds biggest providers of telecoms technology. With the planned roll-out of the 5G network, their products are therefore clearly amongst those being touted for the implementation. In recent months, however, there have been more than…
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Kim Dotcom Sues New Zealand Government For Over $6bn
Kim Dotcom Other than John McAfee, few people in the tech industry give us as much entertainment as Kim Dotcom. Founding MegaUpload in 2005, his website offering people the opportunity to share large sized files gave many a place to share documents too big for anywhere else. There was, of…
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Apple Has Not Paid Any Taxes in New Zealand for the Last 10 Years
Despite having a sales total of over $4.2 billion in New Zealand, it appears that Apple has not paid a single cent in taxes over the past 10 years according to a report by the New Zealand Weekend Herald. The company’s accounts show that it has paid $37 million in…
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Kim Dotcom Has Become Eligible for Extradition in the US
Kim Dotcom’s battle with the New Zealand High Court is renowned worldwide, and while the case has been dragging on for quite a few years now, it looks like Kim himself has just suffered a major setback that could put him on a flight to the United States soon. To be more…
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Domino’s Launches Drone Delivery Service in New Zealand
We already knew that Domino’s was planning to start off a special drone-based pizza delivery service, and it looks like the company has finally managed to launch such a system, albeit in New Zealand only for the time being. The program was developed in partnership with Flirtey, and the drone deliveries…
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WoW Streamer Continues to Raid Through 7.8 New Zealand Earthquake
At midnight, local time, on Monday (14th November), New Zealand was hit by one of the biggest earthquakes recorded in the area, which killed two people, injured many others, and damaged hundreds of homes and building. In the aftermath of the quake, which measured 7.8 on the Richter Scale, the…
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Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider Felt New Zealand Earthquake
New Zealand was hit by a devastating earthquake this morning (14th November, around Midnight local time), which left at least two people dead and injured many more. The quake, which was of a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter Scale, hit New Zealand’s South Island between the cities of Christchurch…
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Domino’s Begins Drone Pizza Delivery Tests
Recognising the fact that pizza cannot get into a person’s mouth fast enough, Domino’s is to begin trialling drone delivery of its takeaway food via flying drones in New Zealand. The pizza maker has entered into a partnership with drone company Flirtey to test a drone delivery service later this…
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New Zealand Man Quits Job to Play Pokemon GO Full Time
While many people around the world are now playing Pokemon GO, for many of them while it may give them a reason to get out and exercise it is hardly life-changing. For Tim Currie of New Zealand, Pokemon GO may be more than just a game as he has…
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A New Age of Humane Treatment: How Technology Can Change Prisons
Corporations all over New Zealand are increasingly becoming more high-tech as a way to increase productivity while cutting costs. That’s where companies like BlueJeans enter the picture, with their video conferencing equipment, making it possible to hold meetings across a variety of platforms. But today’s high-tech world also makes it…
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Firefox On iOS? There’s A Catch With That!
Mozilla Firefox have deployed new ways of attracting a bigger share of the browser-based market, now, users of iPhones and iPads who would like an alternative to their current mobile browsers might have found one, as Mozilla is going to begin rolling out the first public preview version of the…
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It Might Be Time to Delete Your Mega Account
Controversial German web entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, founder of defunct file sharing site Megaupload, and its sister cloud-sharing service Mega, has warned that Mega has been forced out of his control via a hostile takeover and into the hands of the New Zealand government, via a Chinese businessman wanted for fraud.…
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TV Companies to Sue VPN Providers “In Days”
Two New Zealand internet providers who refused to disable their VPN services are to be sued by television providers within days. CallPlus and Bypass Network Services, both ISPs that provide their customers with VPN functionality, will face legal action from media companies SKY, TVNZ, Lightbox, and MediaWorks for continuing to…
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US Government Seizes Kim Dotcom’s Assets Again
German web entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, as a businessman, politician, and world-ranking FPS player, is like a real-life Buckaroo Banzai. Unlike Banzai, however, Dotcom does not have friends in the United States government which, for the second time, has seized the New Zealand-based MEGA owner’s assets, worth millions of dollars. The…
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