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Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 14 days ago • 160 comments

Yeah I have a smart tv, it's called a dumb tv with a HDMI cable in it

submitted 22 days ago • 26 comments

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 24 days ago • 876 comments

Microsoft has finally posted documentation on how to switch to 365 Classic - six weeks after I wrote about it - now that the feature's launched elsewhere. Clearly, NZ customers aren't worth the effort. support.microsoft.com/en-us/office...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Hmm I haven't tried ChatGPT in a while — time to give it a spin and see why it's worth $157 billion

submitted 27 days ago • 70 comments

Our new articulated buses will be able to drop off a maximum of 112 people 8 times an hour. Conversely, four 30 minute car parks will drop off 20 people, twice an hour. So a route 2 bus stop will deliver businesses up to 896 people an hour vs four car parks bringing 40 people an hour. Simple maths.

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

crazy that my body cant tell the difference between answering a text and being chased in the woods

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

nothing but me and you A cosmic story about enduring love and true endings. Inspired by a random crowd-sourced playlist including songs by El-P and Magdalena Bay. You can play it on your 📱 or 💻 for free! games-for-people.itch.io/nothing-but-...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

With 25 years of hindsight, I think we can all agree that two thousand zero zero party over oops out of time ☹️

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Existential sci-fi romance thing coming tomorrow 👀

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Consumer has complained to the Commerce Commission. “We consider Microsoft is misleading customers and breaching section 13(g) of the Fair Trading Act by making a false or misleading representation with respect to the price of any goods or services.” 🔥

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

There is a belief in Silicon Valley that the billions spent on AI make its success inevitable—as though VCs are willing an automated world into existence because it is manifest destiny. Get ready for AI everywhere all at once, whether you want it or not. www.inc.com/sam-blum/and...

submitted 45 days ago • 9 comments

This is useful information for Microsoft 365 subscribers. The notification I got about the price rise said nothing about them bundling AI into the new price. And certainly nothing about the option of sticking with the old plan & price, without AI.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

I just successfully did this.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

researching interactive fiction on a saturday night

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

New: The Government’s new climate plan relies on unproven methane-busting technology and partially disproven carbon capture schemes for as much as half of its promised greenhouse emissions reductions. newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/11/g...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Satya Nadella hates when you save $5 a month using this One Weird Trick! www.consumer.org.nz/articles/you...

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

I’m a bit fed up www.consumer.org.nz/articles/gen...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

The people made me say nice things about Starlink. Thanks RNZ for getting my big caveat into the headline 🙏

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Just a heads up that this $10 billion + difference is the cost of the Cook Strait ferries, Picton and Wellington upgrades, Dunedin Hospital at gold standard, reversing mental health service cuts, and doing the Transport Choices programme.

submitted 97 days ago • 6 comments

When the hīkoi is roa

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

30,000 people were just here, and there's no litter. #ToitūTeTiriti

submitted 97 days ago • 4 comments

A tale as old as time. #nzpol

submitted 111 days ago • 3 comments

I tested a bunch of routers so I guess I’m a networking guy now. Want the basics on how to get a good one? www.consumer.org.nz/articles/wif...

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Stacey’s mom is joining Falun Gong

submitted 117 days ago • 32 comments

Scoop: Offshore wind developer BlueFloat Energy is pulling out of New Zealand just weeks after the Government proposed fast-tracking seabed mining off the coast of Taranaki. BlueFloat has previously said the two industries cannot coexist. newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/24/o...

submitted 123 days ago • 3 comments

Wellington City Council needs to cut pet projects and non-essentials, like its $1.1 billion car lane budget. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-...

submitted 129 days ago • 3 comments

Their word is NEVER their bond. So much for Chris Bishop saying appointments were independent/insulated from Govt influence. 12 of the 14 put forward by Govt agencies were rejected and the majority of appointments to the Fast Track Panel were handpicked by Govt Ministers/Parties #nzpol #rigged

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

Just to say, if you are 30, more than half of all human fossil fuel emissions have occurred in your lifetime #dataviz

submitted 143 days ago • 12 comments

it's so funny watching the media launder Zuckerberg's reputation again, all he has to do is give a few goofy softball interviews to The Verge and Bloomberg and dress like Kevin Federline while saying "AI is the next revolution" and the media is like "wow. a whole new zuck. incredible..."

submitted 142 days ago • 20 comments

Ben Nevell, you goddamn legend thespinoff.co.nz/politics/04-...

submitted 143 days ago • 5 comments

New Zealand, a low tax country with no capital gains tax, is struggling for funds to run a modern public health system. Tracy Watkins, a prominent media leader: we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas. We're ill-served by thinking like this. The Post & SST are ill-served by her leadership.

submitted 147 days ago • 9 comments