Oppo bets on smartphone future as rivals chase post‑phone tech
It has previously specialised in the mid-range market but with the launch of its flagship Find X9 series…
Society Insider: All Black Damian McKenzie and Georgia O’Sullivan’s Fiji family holiday before baby announcement
After rerturning from a family holiday in Fiji, Damian McKenzie and Georgia O’Sullivan announced on Wednesday they are…
Peter Thiel calls Greta Thunberg, AI critics ‘legionnaires of the Antichrist’
In Thiel’s view, the biblical Antichrist is not an evil tech genius but someone who warns of existential…
Japan’s Hitachi, Riken ink deal to build silicon quantum computer
Technology Tie-up with Imec targets prototype by fiscal 2027, 1,000-qubit system by fiscal 2030 The silicon-based quantum computer…
Artificial intelligence: 24-year-old Kiwis raise nearly $10m for AI that automates common tasks
And a second Kiwi, Victoria University Stats and Economics grad Shine Wu, who earlier won a Robertson Scholarship…
Engineers use electric fields to form circuits beyond silicon limits
Transistors, the fundamental building blocks of digital logic, are now being made just a few dozen atoms wide.…
Maximizing Processor Efficiency With the LEAN Metric
In July, a University of Michigan computer engineering professor put out a new idea for measuring the efficiency…
Society Insider: All Black Will Jordan’s double celebration; David Seymour steps out with fiancée; Sir John Kirwan’s sweet new family business; Kiwi tech couple take on Silicon Valley
Will Jordan graduates from the University of Canterbury with Vice Chancellor Cheryl de la Rey (left) and Chancellor…