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Iwi Works With Scientists To Protect Community From Natural Hazards
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 1:41 pm | Natural Hazards Commission
Board Chair of Takapūwāhia Marae, Callum Kātene, says that as climate disasters increase in frequency and intensity, Māori face growing threats to their lands, homes, taonga, people, and culture. More >>
Spirit Of Cooperation : Netsafe And Federation Of Maori Authorities Sign Memorandum Of Understanding
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 11:55 am | Netsafe
The key tenet of the document is that Netsafe will partner with FOMA to grow and work with its members on online safety matters, and it provides a framework for how the two organisations will work together. More >>
Regional Plant Pathology And Entomology Workshop Enhances Biosecurity Capacity In The Pacific
Thursday, 31 October 2024, 5:45 am | Secretariat of The Pacific Community - SPC
Every year, plant diseases and pests cause significant economic losses to farmers, affecting not only their livelihoods but also the availability and affordability of nutritious food for millions of people around the world. More >>
Entrust Helps Fight Fraud At Account Opening And Every Day With New Consumer Banking Platform
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 3:26 pm | Entrust
Solution integrates leading AI-driven identity verification technology with physical and digital card issuance capabilities to reduce fraud at account opening and provide continuous account protection More >>
How Much Is Social Media Controlling You?
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 11:42 am | University of Canterbury
Statistics show over half the global population spends more than 2.5 hours daily on social media, UC research has looked at the psychological drivers and concerns behind excessive social media use. More >>
Auckland Zoo’s New Online Conservation Learning Platform Opens Up World Of Opportunity For All
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 11:21 pm | Auckland Zoo
The programme of courses for the new platform have been created by the Zoo’s internationally renowned and passionate group of conservation educators, who also facilitate sessions at the Zoo and out in the community. More >>
Commonwealth Ocean Declaration - Expert Reaction
Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 8:32 pm | Science Media Centre
The declaration includes commitments to increasing marine protected areas, reducing plastic pollution and shipping emissions, and maintaining countries' maritime boundaries in the face of sea level rise. More >>
Datadog Named A Leader In The 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ For Digital Experience Monitoring
Monday, 28 October 2024, 4:21 pm | Datadog
Datadog’s Digital Experience Monitoring tools offer deep, actionable insights into the availability, performance and quality of the user experience to empower organisations like Redzone QAD, which uses Datadog Synthetic Monitoring. More >>
Majority Of NZ Researchers See Māori Indigenous Knowledge As Relevant To Their Work – But There Is A Gender Divide
Monday, 28 October 2024, 1:24 pm | The Conversation
A policy that encourages engagement with Māori communities has made non-Māori researchers more open to consider mātauranga Māori as an equivalent, although different, knowledge framework. More >>
Biodiversity-Enhancing Project From The Supporters Of Tiritiri Matangi Selected As Finalists For International Funding
Saturday, 26 October 2024, 3:04 pm | Supporters of Tiritiri Matangi
They are finalists for the prestigious European Outdoor Conservation Association Autumn granting round. From hundreds of international grassroots community-conservation applications, this project was selected as a finalist in the Water category- and ... More >>
Deloitte report makes powerful case for more fibre
Saturday, 26 October 2024, 9:10 am | Bill Bennett
Deloitte's Unleashing the power of digital fibre infrastructure in New Zealand makes the case for greater investment in fibre. One NZ gets closer to 100 percent coverage. Starlink set to contribute to telecommunications development levy. More >>
Dealing With A Cool 2% Of Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Friday, 25 October 2024, 3:32 am | Cool-Safe
Refrigerants allow for the operation of the ‘cold chain’, which allows temperature-sensitive goods to be transported and stored throughout global supply chains and are critical to many industrial processes. More >>
NZ Is Encouraging The Use Of AI – But It’s Largely Outsourcing The Risks And Societal Costs
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 2:58 pm | The Conversation
Artificial intelligence is energy hungry and has an ever-expanding carbon footprint. Embracing the technology will make it harder for New Zealand to meet its climate targets. More >>
Dynabook Unveils New Ultra Lightweight Portégé X30L-M Packed With AI-Powered Performance
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 1:06 pm | Dynabook ANZ Pty. Limited
The Portégé X30L-M is a powerhouse designed for the mobile professional. The AI-enhanced features, superior security and robust design ensure that the laptop can adapt to the needs of any business environment, whether you're in the office or working remotely. More >>
Royal Society Should Withdraw Governance Restructuring
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 9:22 am | New Zealand Association of Scientists
The Royal Society Te Apārangi is a public organisation with complex duties set out in its enabling legislation – “the advancement and promotion in New Zealand of science, technology, and the humanities”. More >>
Robotics Plus Returns To Showcase Prospr: The Multi-use Autonomous Vehicle For Orchards And Vineyards At FIRA 2024
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 5:26 pm | Robotics Plus
Prospr's advanced AI capabilities are driving efficiency, sustainability, safety, and precision More >>
Government Not Filling Chief Science Advisor Role 'Concerning' - Ex-Advisor
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 7:32 pm | RNZ
The Coalition government is implementing policies that do not have any basis in evidence, one of its former science advisors has claimed. More >>
World First Discovery Shows New Molecule In New Zealand Blackcurrants Inhibits An Enzyme That Degrades Dopamine
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 2:22 pm | Plant and Food Research
The clinical study, recently published in The Journal of Agricultural Chemistry, identified sarmentosin as the primary inhibitor of monoamine oxidase-B (MAO-B) enzymes in the human brain after consuming blackcurrant products. More >>
Datadog’s State Of Cloud Security 2024 Finds Room For Improvement In Long-Lived Credentials Use Across All Major Clouds
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 1:39 pm | Datadog
The report found that 46% of organisations are using unmanaged users with long-lived credentials More >>
NZ Space Agency Hopes Agreement Will Result In More Joint Missions
Monday, 21 October 2024, 9:20 pm | RNZ
The New Zealand and UK space agencies have come up with principles to make it easier for companies to do work in space. More >>
Broadband marketing rules to cut confusion
Monday, 21 October 2024, 7:39 pm | Bill Bennett
Recently updated broadband guidelines clarify speed and exit options; 2degrees gains mobile market share as Skinny declines; One NZ tests Starlink satellite service for nationwide mobile coverage. More >>
DNAiTECH Raises Pre-Seed Round To Launch World-first Instant Diagnostic Tests That Don’t Need A Lab
Monday, 21 October 2024, 1:38 pm | DNAiTECH
“Diseases like Johne’s in livestock or measles in humans drive significant losses, both economically and in terms of human life, especially in developing countries. More >>
This Cyber Smart Week Don’t Give To The Scamathon!
Monday, 21 October 2024, 12:45 pm | National Cyber Security Centre - NCSC
Every week, scammers take an average of $3.8 million from New Zealanders, by preying on our human nature. More >>
Dragonfly Wing Pattern Beats Architectural Solutions By Ancient Romans And Cutting-Edge Algorithms
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 11:21 pm | Skoltech
Skoltech researchers and their colleague from the University of Granada, Spain, have determined which ways to reinforce vaults and domes in architecture are more efficient. More >>
Why Google Maps Can't Pronounce Māori Place Names
Sunday, 20 October 2024, 3:10 pm | RNZ
It's unacceptable that AI tools and global tech companies are still lagging in te reo pronunciation, a Māori tech innovator says. More >>
Sticky Situation: Where Are All The Stick Insects?
Friday, 18 October 2024, 8:53 pm | RNZ
The problem is we don't have any hard data, and we don't have historical data either to kind of measure how those numbers may have changed over time so they could be - but it's just so hard to measure. More >>
Agritech Invention Wins $100k Challenge
Friday, 18 October 2024, 11:21 am | University of Auckland
This year, a cutting-edge agritech solution designed to benefit the health of cows took out first place in the Velocity $100k Challenge. More >>
An Astronomer's Tips To Spot Rare Comet Over The Next Few Nights
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 6:21 pm | RNZ
The comet hasn't been seen for in our skies for 80,000 years, but your best bet to catch a glipse is over the next few nights. More >>
Vertiv Codevelops With NVIDIA Complete Power And Cooling Blueprint For NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Platform
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 1:31 pm | Vertiv
End-to-end critical power and cooling reference designs for NVIDIA Blackwell architectures up to 7MW, with OCP infrastructure options More >>
New Factsheet A Reminder That Healthier Environments Reduce Cancer
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 11:29 am | Alcohol Healthwatch
The factsheet also talks about how our environment can be improved to reduce alcohol-related cancers. This includes increasing the price of alcohol, reducing the availability of alcohol, and restricting its marketing. More >>
Rocket Lab Adds New Mission To 2024 Launch Manifest, Schedules Launch In Coming Days
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 9:52 am | Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has added a last-minute Electron launch to its launch manifest for a commercial mission that is scheduled ... More >>
Clever Sleuthing Unmasks Mystery Ocean Creature
Thursday, 17 October 2024, 9:47 am | NIWA
Amongst the brilliant selection of fish and invertebrates collected from 3,500m deep, an unusual specimen stumped the experts. NIWA marine biologist and voyage leader Sadie Mills says she and her colleagues resulted to calling it ‘The Thing’. More >>
Cap Snap: Kiwi Invention Secures A Spot In The Global Top20 For The James Dyson Award
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 5:20 pm | James Dyson Award
‘Cap Snap’ is a medical multi-tool for crimp seal cap removal and ampoule breaking, which improves safety for healthcare staff and reduces medical waste going to landfill. More >>
Tropical Cyclone Outlook Summary For The Pacific Islands
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 4:23 pm | NIWA
Tropical Cyclones have a significant impact across the Southwest Pacific, with the season starting in November and lasting through April. For the coming season, significant differences are expected between the western and eastern halves of the basin. More >>
USP Invention For Cyber Resilient Thermal Power Plants Granted Full Patent
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 2:22 pm | University Of The South Pacific
Dr Utkal Mehta said increasing reliance on electricity has made the stability of power grids a critical concern for regions such as Fiji. More >>
GovGPT Pilot Available Publicly For Testing And Validation
Wednesday, 16 October 2024, 9:41 am | Callaghan Innovation
GovGPT aims to provide accurate and referenceable information from a range of Government websites through natural language conversations, to help businesses access the information they need faster, and more easily than through a browser. More >>
Avaya Intelligently Augments CX Role With AI-Based ‘Virtual Operations Manager’
Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 3:34 pm | Avaya
Shown at GITEX Global in Dubai, Avaya’s ‘Virtual Operations Manager’ concept highlights the art of the possible, demonstrating how human and artificial intelligence collaboration can fundamentally alter the way customer experience is managed at the ... More >>
Opening Up Access To Science Education: Rocket Lab Scholarship Applications Now Open
Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 10:49 am | Rocket Lab
The Rocket Lab Scholarship covers up to $20,000 of study fees for one outstanding student and offers the opportunity to be paired with a Rocket Lab mentor, giving them a rare opportunity for one-on-one experience with a world leading space and ... More >>
VAST Data Is A Leader In The 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ For File And Object Storage Platforms
Monday, 14 October 2024, 2:26 pm | VAST Data
The VAST Data Platform enables organisations to seamlessly manage massive datasets across diverse workloads, from traditional applications to the most demanding AI environments. More >>
A Better Way Of Getting Google To Support NZ Media
Monday, 14 October 2024, 1:24 pm | Bill Bennett
New Zealand Government's Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill plans to make Google and others pay what amounts to a ‘link tax’. It’s a simple sounding solution, but it’s not the best answer. More >>
In Pictures: Aurora Australis Makes Spectacular Return To New Zealand Skies
Saturday, 12 October 2024, 8:09 pm | RNZ
People have been reporting displays of the Southern Lights from Southland to Northland on Friday night. More >>
Download Weekly: Transitions dominate TCF annual report
Friday, 11 October 2024, 7:58 pm | Bill Bennett
In this week's newsletter - The New Zealand Telecommunications Forum’s annual report shows an industry in transition. 2degrees pairs with Palo Alto Networks to displace Spark from key education contract. Datacom notes a big rise in the number of NZ companies ... More >>
Clues Left By The Alpine Fault’s Last Big Quake Reveal Its Direction, Helping NZ Prepare For The Inevitable Next Rupture
Friday, 11 October 2024, 7:05 pm | The Conversation
New research shows the last big earthquake on the Alpine Fault ran from south to north. With a 75% chance of another rupture in the next 50 years, this improves how we can forecast its impact. More >>
Hurricane Season: What Is It, When Is It And Why Is It So Dangerous?
Thursday, 10 October 2024, 7:23 pm | RNZ
Milton is the latest hurricane to strike Florida, coming just weeks after deadly Helene. But why now? Here's what you need to know. More >>
Can Contact Sports Cause A Degenerative Brain Condition? – Expert Q&A
Thursday, 10 October 2024, 12:05 pm | Science Media Centre
Researchers are working to understand how often contact sports like rugby can lead to players developing Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). The condition was called “punch drunk syndrome” nearly 100 years ago when scientists first noticed a link ... More >>
Weed-busting African Tulip Beetles Arrive In Tonga
Wednesday, 9 October 2024, 7:32 pm | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
The beetles have been extensively tested to ensure no other plants are at risk from it and have already been deployed in the Cook Islands. More >>
Do Investors Trust AI For Stock Market Predictions?
Wednesday, 9 October 2024, 2:53 pm | University of Auckland
The study, which involved 3,600 US participants, examined responses to S&P 500 stock predictions made by human analysts, AI systems and a combination of both. More >>
Rocket Lab Awarded NASA Study Contract To Explore Bringing Rock Samples From Mars To Earth For The First Time
Tuesday, 8 October 2024, 6:41 pm | Rocket Lab
The study proposes using Rocket Lab’s vertically integrated technologies to retrieve samples from the Red Planet for the first time in history as part of NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program. More >>
ANZMES Awards $25K Grant And $10K In Scholarships To Advance ME/CFS And Long COVID Research 2024
Tuesday, 8 October 2024, 3:47 pm | ANZMES
Each recipient has been awarded significant funding to pursue their work, advancing ME/CFS and long COVID research in critical new directions. More >>
Manawanui Sinking: An Expert Explains Why A Speedy Cleanup Will Be Crucial – And The Main Challenges Ahead
Tuesday, 8 October 2024, 2:51 pm | The Conversation
Damage from the loss of a New Zealand naval ship in Samoa can be limited if salvage and cleanup crews move fast. But the depth at which the ship now lies will be a challenge. More >>
Seals Are Unlocking Antarctic Secrets
Tuesday, 8 October 2024, 2:19 pm | University of Canterbury
By tagging Weddell seals with specialised satellite devices, Dr Wege, & her collaborators at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar & Marine Research in Germany & the University of Bergen in Norway are gathering invaluable data on ocean temperatures, salinity, ... More >>
Global Butterfly Emergency!
Monday, 7 October 2024, 6:03 pm | Moths and Butterflies NZ Trust
“Here in NZ we should be worried as well,” said Jacqui Knight, founding trustee of the Moths and Butterflies of NZ Trust (MBNZT). Most NZers don’t even know about the beautiful species we do have. If you don’t know something exists, you don’t ... More >>
Pūrangakura Celebrates Significant Funding Award For ‘Wai Ora, Kāinga Ora’ Research
Saturday, 5 October 2024, 11:25 pm | Purangakura
The Kaupapa Māori research team will work alongside Māori communities to enhance their capacity and capability to improve water regeneration practices. More >>
Efficiency And Cost-Analysis Of Modern Piling Equipment In Foundation And Installation Projects
Saturday, 5 October 2024, 1:48 pm | Hugh Grant
As the demand for more sophisticated and cost-effective foundation solutions grows, the role of modern piling equipment in foundation engineering becomes increasingly central. More >>
Starlink’s Growing Pains
Saturday, 5 October 2024, 1:01 pm | Bill Bennett
In this week's Download Weekly newsletter: Starlink is growing fast, but expanding subscribers numbers means more network congestion. Smishing comes to New Zealand. We don't look great in the GSMA digital transformation report. More >>
Mpox Vaccine Protection Wanes Within A Year – Expert Reaction
Friday, 4 October 2024, 2:58 pm | Science Media Centre
Researchers from Harvard Medical School found that mpox antibodies waned six to 12 months after immunisation, but that more research is needed to confirm this. More >>
Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us To Rethink Our Relationships With Them
Friday, 4 October 2024, 11:40 am | Human Bridges
The broad consensus is that many species are sentient. More >>
New Research Finds Significant Warming Of Ross Sea Region
Thursday, 3 October 2024, 3:18 pm | University of Canterbury
Nielsen, who moved from Denmark to New Zealand to study Antarctic Studies at UC’s School of Earth and Environment, says Antarctica will experience significant changes due to global warming. More >>
VAST Data Founds Cosmos, A Tech Community With A Mission To Simplify & Accelerate AI Adoption, Exploration And Discovery
Wednesday, 2 October 2024, 6:42 pm | VAST Data
Cosmos brings together leaders from every sector across the data and AI landscape to share knowledge, explore solutions, and drive adoption and efficiency for enterprise AI. More >>
Reforming Building Consents - Expert Reaction
Wednesday, 2 October 2024, 11:01 am | Science Media Centre
The options under consideration include reducing the number of Consent Authorities, as well as allowing building inspections to be done by private companies. More >>
