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NZ seen as the world’s living tech lab

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Headline: NZ seen as the world’s living tech lab

Auckland – The announcement of the world’s first self-driving electric air taxi being piloted in Christchurch is just one of the examples of New Zealand becoming a living tech laboratory, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller said today. The Zephyr Airworks aircraft, financed by Google co-founder Larry Page, is a great testimony to responding to a global…

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AI bringing exciting possibilities to NZ

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Headline: AI bringing exciting possibilities to NZ

Christchurch – In Phoenix, Arizona, cars are self-navigating the streets. In many homes, people are speaking to digital assistants, with the machines responding. Smartphones and apps can now recognise faces in photos and translate from one language to another, to name a few other examples of artificial intelligence (AI). A leading New Zealand geo-AI company, Orbica,…

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Hopelessly addicted inventor saving native birds with AI

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Headline: Hopelessly addicted inventor saving native birds with AI

Christchurch – A researcher described as a hopelessly addicted inventor who is using artificial intelligence (AI) to find native bird predators such as rats, stoats and possums, will be an interesting speaker at AI Day in Auckland on March 28. AI Day speaker Grant Ryan, from Christchurch, is trying to help make NZ predator free with…

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Jury still out on value of PGF initiatives, says BERL

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Headline: Jury still out on value of PGF initiatives, says BERL

Wellington – The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) has the potential to be a lifeline for struggling provinces and regions. “But last week’s announcement of initial projects was disappointingly light”, according to BERL deputy chief economist Hillmaré Schulze. The recently announced $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund is the largest injection of central government funding into provincial New…

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How can NZ agritech feed the world even more?

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Headline: How can NZ agritech feed the world even more?

Tauranga – How New Zealand can meet the challenge of feeding some of the predicted global population of 10 billion by 2050, will be a major focus at a Techweek event in Tauranga in May. World-leading meat, dairy and horticultural industries have established New Zealand’s reputation as a producer of food. But NZTech chief executive Graeme…

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AI provides window to get women into tech

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Headline: AI provides window to get women into tech

Auckland – Artificial intelligence, or AI, is the next wave of technology and New Zealand must present a fresh window to help encourage women into tech roles. Big corporations across every industry, from retail to agriculture, are trying to integrate machine learning into their products and the global thirst for AI is fuelling a heated…

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Tech is transforming the NZ exercise industry

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Headline: Tech is transforming the NZ exercise industry

Christchurch – Technology is turning the exercise industry upside down which is one of the reasons exercise is the biggest sport in New Zealand right now, Exercise NZ chief executive Richard Beddie says. Tech in fitness the industry is accelerating with everything from smart watches, heart rate monitors, to sleep/rest trackers which indicate when people should…

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Encouraging signs of more Kiwi women in tech

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Headline: Encouraging signs of more Kiwi women in tech

Auckland – The worm has turned in the tech world as a wave of females are joining the tech community, according to national and global reports. This Thursday is International Women’s Day and executive director of Tech Women New Zealand, Edwina Mistry, says tech has never been more attractive as a career for females. One Auckland…

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