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Automation: A new frontier of human-machine partnership
Think of the future of automation. What do you visualise, asks Anant Gupta… read more...

What Workplace means for business
With Facebook’s ‘Workplace’ entering the fray for social media at work, Deloitte NZ partner and digital specialist Grant Frear shares his perspectives… read more...

HoloLens soon to be available to local developers
What will you do with augmented reality… read more...

Science fiction? Nah, business as usual
Value of human experience likely to increase on the path to 2040… read more...

Productivity boon (or bust) as Facebook launches Workplace
Once a dirty word on the job, world’s biggest social network makes a play for the office… read more...

IoT experiments gather pace
Kiwis are on to it, but immaturity largely restricts deployments to proof of concept… read more...

Netflix tax: Why digital goods belong in the IRD’s net
Taxing cloud computing is a problem which has long occupied the minds of tax consultants and those in government tasked with collections… read more...

Microsoft spruiks trusted cloud conversation
Secure, sustainable and inclusive ‘cloud for good’… read more...

New report demonstrates how machine learning will work in healthcare
Orion Health does some show and tell on the drive to precision medicine… read more...

SAP invests large in IoT, big data
German ERP giant to spend €2 billion over five years… read more...

Ahead of the curve, Orion Health looks to introduce machine learning
Machine learning just starting Hype Cycle journey… read more...

Electronic enlightenment ploughs through uncanny valley
Insights so good they might freak you out… read more...

Augmented reality is more than fun and games
Pokemon Go has all but disappeared, but billions await for business AR… read more...

Filling in the IoT’s missing link
Billions of sensors to connect…to what?… read more...

Technology’s role in the farms of the future
Precision agriculture has a lot to offer – and that doesn’t mean rubber chicken… read more...

On the relative positioning of carts, horses and the Internet of Things
More of a concept than a reality right now, but don’t write off the IoT… read more...

Enthusiast’s analysis lifts lid on government ICT spend per employee
Consultant takes ‘open government’ data, gives back information… read more...

Infrastructure hampering digital performance
Forget about innovation on the way to a digitally transformed organisation, because unless the infrastructure’s sorted, it isn’t going to happen… read more...

Technological development and a future of no-cost living
Here’s an interesting idea: the cost of living is coming down so rapidly that it might become zero… read more...

Bimodal IT: Keeping the lights on as important as innovation
In the rush to digitally transform, don’t neglect the basics… read more...