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Vodafone Phases Out Telephone Numbers
Vodafone has announced that phone numbers will no longer be necessary for mobile subscribers in New Zealand. New and existing subscribers who do not run POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) landlines will...
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Are domestic Robots Spying on You?
Back in 2012 an article featured widely in the press, quoting the CIA Director David Petraeus saying “We’ll spy on you through your fridge”. The article talked about the Internet of Things, which...
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President Announces New Moon Base Project Collaboration
President (Hilary) Clinton has announced that the USA is going to collaborate on the creation of a permanent moon base together with China and Virgin Galactic. This base will support further...
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Health Problems Caused by Augmented Reality Glasses Over Usage
ARGOS (Augmented Reality Glasses Overuse Syndrome) has recently been identified by the Mental health Research Centre in the USA. People are being bombarded with constant data being displayed on their...
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Asteroid Risk in USA Explodes Real Estate Prices in New Zealand
Real Estate prices in parts of New Zealand are reaching atmospheric highs after authorities announced that the risk of Asteroid 1997 XF11 hitting Earth close to New York State on 28 October 2028 has...
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Long Bay Finally Gets Ferry Wharf Approval
Transport Auckland finally bowed to pressure and has approved a Ferry Terminal installation to cope with the gridlock after heated protests from residents of the new Long Bay development. Long Bay was...
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Google Glasses Separation Syndrome
Google Glasses and dozens of other brands of Augmented Reality goggles hit the road running for Christmas 2013 and over the next couple of years AR applications went from Wow to business as usual....
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Police Look Into Fake Google Glasses
Police are struggling to enforce the new law banning wearing Google Glasses whilst driving a motor vehicle according to spokesperson AR Seymour. “From a distance many of today’s Augmented Reality...
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Facebook Goggle Phone Is Better Than I Thought
Facebook has joined the fray with not just AR Goggles, but the Goggles are the phone and its quite cool. When Vodafone gave me the glasses to review, my first reaction was, to be honest, pretty much,...
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Boy Racers Make Sport With Driverless Cars
Driverless Car photo by Steve Jurvetson {EAV:790574c026a0b8cd} A dangerous new sport has started with boy racers trying to run driverless cars off the road. Car manufacturers fight back by capturing...
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I Found the Real Auckland Transport Plan
Everyone thought the new Auckland transport plan was going to be about a second harbour crossing, a tunnel, more busways an extra lanes. The new Labour Government together with Auckland Transport came...
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Poor GPS Map Data on Aftermarket HUD Car Nav Devices Turns Heads
New aftermarket GPS car nav units have been blamed for a spate of car accidents due to inaccurate map data. The wave of new aftermarket HUD (Heads Up Display) aftermarket car navigation devices over...
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My Auckland Commute to Work
Do you ever think back to how things used to be? Auckland motorways used to be known as the car park. My commute on the North Shore is so easy these days, thanks to the awesome travel information we...
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Taxi Drivers Strike Against Driverless Cabs
Technology has finally caught up with another industry and is forcing many cabbies out of their jobs. It started with services like Uber and Lyft bringing in driverless cars that were cheaper to use...
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PUBER Startup Gains Traction and Provides Employment for Powerless People
Recent startup PUBER has signed a major contract with a Chinese manufacturer to produce hundreds of thousands of trailered EV chargers as they roll out their new mobile charging service for electric...
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StopThief Mini Trackers Stop Crooks in Their Tracks
This is a simulation, not a real thief! There’s a new kid in town in the location based tracking business and they are taking on retail store thieves, guiding Police straight to their location with...
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Mercedes Files Amygdala Hive Patent to Emulate Human Emotions to Improve...
After a spate of high speed crashes on European Motorways involving large numbers of vehicles, Mercedes has come up with a solution for their Level 5 autonomous vehicles that emulates the way the human...
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I’m getting an eInk Tattoo
I was inspired by this technology way back in 17 and thought it would be great to be able to express myself. You only have so much skin right. You get a tattoo on and it’s there forever. I still like...
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Alexa Changed my Life AND Has Almost Stopped TXTing and Driving
I first installed Alexa on my iPhone back in ’18 after reading the @garyvee book Crushing It: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence and How You Can Too. I knew about Voice First...
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Well it started at some university in the Midwest as an Orientation Week prank but then it grew legs and for a week, cities all over the US came close to grinding still. The idea was simple. Whenever...
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