Interactive map: Street-by-street data shows you what could change at your house
Scenario B could allow for 1.5 million to 1.7 million homes. Auckland councillors last month chose the two…
Datagrid’s $5 billion Southland ‘AI factory’ still faces three huge hurdles
As of this week, the national grid operator, Transpower, says it’s still in an investigative phase. That’s no…
Mark Rothko’s Color Fields Mirror the Elements in a ‘Weather-to-Painting Experiment’ — Colossal
Mark Rothko is known for his “color field” paintings, a genre that was coined in the 1950s to…
Lutein-zeaxanthin supplements may boost attention in teenagers
Writing in Nutrition Research, Adrian Lopresti and Stephen Smith from Clinical Research Australia report that supplementation with 10…
MP Housing Perks: See how the number of MPs claiming all their housing allowance has skyrocketed
Some MPs have – over time – received enough to buy an apartment outright. More on that below.…
Why Europe’s heat waves are still so deadly – POLITICO
“We built our cities for the climate from before,” said Jeroen Kluck, a professor at the Amsterdam University…
Auckland’s Atomic Tessellator uses AI to synthesise alternatives to rare earth elements. It could recast geopolitics
Atomic Tessellator founder Alain Richardt said his company was in the process of synthesising an alternative to the…
How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature
This is because AI models don’t just need text data to improve; they need diverse inputs in other…
Auckland’s fake winter exposed: Data shows the city never really freezes
In Auckland, winter is an exercise in wishful thinking. Last June, the city’s mean average temperature was 13…
Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz bets on AI governments can control
Dream, a company that builds artificial intelligence and cyber‑defense systems for governments and critical infrastructure, has raised $260…
Employment growth rises in May as labour market shows resilience
“It’s still volatile out there with economic head winds a defining feature of the current environment,” Neil Webster,…
New data: GDP showed good growth before Iran war
The result was that March quarters now receive less of an uplift than they did previously; without that…