Las Vegas: Having watched Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer warming up in the darkened corner of the Hilton Las Vegas this evening, slapping friends on the back and punching the air, I expected him to unleash some of his trademark over-exuberance. But it was a relatively subdued Ballmer who took to the stage for the […]
MoreI’m in Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, the massive tech-fest that usually sets the tone for the year ahead in the world of technology and consumer electronics. Well, that’s how it used to be at CES, which this year will attract in excess of 120,000 visitors to Sin City. In recent years, the […]
MoreRight now political journalists in Wellington are leafing through documents released by Archives New Zealand and the Defence Force which detail witness accounts of unidentified flying object sightings around New Zealand back to the 1950s. I’ve spoken to a number of journalists today who sheepishly revealed they’d been roped into the effort to cover the […]
MoreThis year at the Science Media Centre we’ve gotten really interested in visualisation of science data and began dabbling in these sorts of infographics which we create for the media at large to use. But the ultimate extension of this type of thing is full-on web-based interactive data visualisations that let you cut the data […]
MoreRegional cities in the North Island will be the first to see fibre optic cables laid around their streets as $200 million worth of contracts to roll out high-speed internet services are confirmed. The deals that the Government’s Crown Fibre Holdings has struck are with the type of infrastructure players not traditionally associated with broadband […]
MoreAs my fellow Sciblogger Brendan Moyle has already posted about, most news websites are carrying the horrifying news that 23 seals have been found by DOC works clubbed to death on the Kaikoura Coast. Now, as you may know, seals are protected by law in New Zealand – it is illegal to hunt, harm or […]
MoreThe Government has kicked off a $13 million marketing campaign to encourage the 29 per cent of the country’s households still watching analogue TV to switch to digital services ahead of the planned shutdown of analogue transmissions in November 2013. For most of us, digital TV is taken for granted – if you subscribe to […]
MoreUPDATED: This evening’s press conference on the rescue effort underway at the Pike River mine had much discussion of the military robot that is being prepared for deployment into the mine entrance. The military robot entered Pike River mine this morning but broke down after progressing about 500 metres into the mine shaft, reportedly due […]
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