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Disconnected: the 1 per cent who might never get internet
Many Kiwis can hardly remember what life was like before the internet. But even as the country's connectivity infrastructure expands rapidly, the most remote households are being left behind. Katie Kenny reports.
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How to attract and accommodate millennials, according to millennials
Today's top young talent can be hard to recruit and harder to retain. How can Kiwi companies compete in a digital, borderless market?
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Will the inquiry really be the saviour of the mental health system?
ANALYSIS: The shortfalls of our mental health system were a constant topic of discussion at the dinner table, in the House, and in the media last year. After the new Government announced a national mental health and addiction inquiry, the subject disappeared from headlines.
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All you need to know about the proposed privacy laws
ANALYSIS: If the Privacy Bill introduced to Parliament this year becomes law in its current form, New Zealand will have a Privacy Act fit for 2013, Privacy Commissioner John Edwards says.
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Machine learning algorithm is claimed to predict which students will drop out
A machine learning algorithm which predicts the likelihood a student will drop out of university is being trialled in New Zealand and Australia.
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To madness and back: how brain cancer affected a neuroscientist
Neuroscientist Barbara Lipska has dedicated her life to studying diseases of the mind. In 2015, owing to brain tumours, she started losing her own mind. Here, she tells reporter KATIE KENNY what she took away, professionally and personally, from a brush with madness.
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While artificial intelligence is tipped to be 'as significant as electricity', it's not coming for your job, yet
Despite society's fears of a robot apocalypse, artificial intelligence (AI) will account for just 10 per cent of normal job creation and destruction in New Zealand over the next 40 years, according to a landmark report released today.
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Is NZ an innovation hub, or a wild west for new technology?
Superfad hosts KATIE KENNY and LAURA WALTERS have spent the past seven weeks exploring the weird and wonderful world of trends. But the podcast series has highlighted how New Zealand's regulation apathy is turning it into a wild west for new technology.
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Tiny houses might fit snugly with NZ's rural heritage but what about in the city?
Pimped-out tiny houses have been popping up all over the country. The movement seems like a natural fit for Kiwis, harking back to our rural roots, but does that extend to urban settings? Reporters Laura Walters and Katie Kenny explore the trend as part of their seven-part podcast, Superfad.
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A tiny house transformation: from rotting shed to Airbnb success
Keith Lovelock spent about $8000, and a year of his life, renovating a rotting shed into a colonial-themed tiny house.
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Vaping advocates and health experts are urging the government to get a move on
In the latest episode of Stuff's podcast series Superfad, hosts Katie Kenny and Laura Walters try vaping, which remains largely unregulated in New Zealand.
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How new crazes are changing the way we live
Superfad hosts Katie Kenny and Laura Walters spent a week in a waist trainer, crammed into a tiny house and vegged out for hours of TV bingeing, all in the name of research. Here, they share their thoughts on how these crazes are changing the way we live.
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Superfad: Mindfulness in the NZ Defence Force
In the latest episode of Stuff's Superfad podcast, hosts Laura Walters and Katie Kenny examine mindfulness and meditation. They talked to the New Zealand Defence Force about how the military is training more 'mindful' soldiers.
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Superfad: Netflix, Lightbox and binge-watching have changed TV
The fourth episode of Superfad, a new podcast from Stuff, asks how streaming services are influencing the creation of TV shows.
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The DNA mapping craze is delivering some unwelcome surprises to Kiwis
In the latest episode of Stuff's Superfad podcast, hosts Katie Kenny and Laura Walters examine the DNA mapping craze. They discovered some people are learning a lot more than they wanted to know in the results.