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Written on August 26, 2008 | Posted in
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A collection of podcasts outlining the activities of New Zealand companies involved in developing clean energy technology - available to play from the Science Media Centre.
Written on August 26, 2008 | Posted in
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On Thiswayup with Simon Morton on the tech news of the week… particularly the new Will Wright title Spore.
Written on August 26, 2008 | Posted in
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One thing struck me about the discussion between Aussie PM Kein Rudd and Helen Clark at the climate change conference in Auckland yesterday. Clark is a far more articulate, concise speaker. She choses her words carefully and for effect. Rudd rambles a bit, uses more PR speak but comes across as warmer, more relaxed and [...]
Written on August 20, 2008 | Posted in
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Written on August 17, 2008 | Posted in
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Auckland University computer science researcher Peter Gutmann is in the Sunday Star Times today for his work as part of a team that has cracked chip-based passports.
According to the SST, Gutmann and two other scientists (British computer expert Adam Laurie and Amsterdam academic Jeroen van Beek) “successfully copied the contents of a British boy’s electronic [...]
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The founder of Publicaddress.net talks about the business model underpinning the country’s most successful blogging enterprise, the move into moderated comments with the Public Address System and the 1000+ posts written in the wake of the Tony Veitch scandal.
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Written on August 16, 2008 | Posted in
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It has to go down as one of the more bizarre and worrying tech glitches of the year, and I’m still yet to read a good explanation of what went wrong with Slingshot’s caching configuration that allowed customers to see into the Trademe and email accounts of fellow customers.
Stuff reader David makes a very good [...]
Written on August 16, 2008 | Posted in
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Science, research and technology minister Hon. Pete Hodgson admits in this address that he is in danger of viewing the science field here through “rose-tinted glasses”. After all, he’s been chiefly responsible for engineering some of the big science policy initiatives currently on the table. Still, there’s plenty of debate about whether those policies go [...]
Written on August 16, 2008 | Posted in
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Rebecca McLeod’s acceptance speech as Young Scientist of the Year. The University of Otago researcher found that sea floor ‘compost’ produces hydrogen sulphide which is taken up by bacteria and, through a series of chemical reactions, forest material is turned into carbohydrate energy.These bacteria live inside some species of clams and worms, providing their hosts [...]
Written on August 15, 2008 | Posted in
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