San Diego - New Zealand is about to see an explosion in the number of people taking up yoga, 24/7 gyms, boutique studios, boot camps and mobile trainers, a leading exercise expert says. Exercise NZ chief executive Richard Beddie says a quarter of all gyms and fitness clubs in the country are
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Erosion of NZ rural services must stop – RHAANZ says
Waipukurau - The endless gnawing away at services for rural communities has gone too far, a national rural leader says. Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand (RHAANZ) chief executive Michelle Thompson today pleaded for equitable access to services for rural people. “We are losing our hospitals, our schools, we have under-funded health services,
Techweek to showcase NZ’s world-leading inventions
Auckland - New Zealanders will hear and learn all about the country’s most amazing world-leading innovation, projects and breakthroughs during Techweek in May, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. Techweek will include more than 400 events in over 30 towns and cities all over New Zealand from Northland to Otago, including tech
Ethics of artificial intelligence critical to its success
Auckland - The ethics of artificial intelligence will be critical to the success of AI going forward, a Microsoft leader and a keynote speaker at the AI Day event in Auckland next week says. Steve Guggenheimer, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s AI Business, says that given AI has the potential to reshape
Tech researchers on the cusp of an evolution with machines
Auckland - The world’s tech experts are on the verge of seeing a major shift in relationships between people and machines, according to a key speaker heading to AI Day in Auckland on March 28. IBM Distinguished Designer Adam Cutler says what interests him the most is the connection between people and
NZ produces a world-first AI medical diagnosis platform
Dunedin - A New Zealand company has created a world-first artificial intelligence (AI) medical platform for medical researchers and clinicians to create AI to auto-diagnose a large range of diseases based on a single photograph. Dunedin company oDocs, which created the system for Medicmind, says the AI system is working well and
Digital change expected to lose and create many jobs
Auckland - Digital transformation, including automation and artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to impact many current jobs and the income of many New Zealanders, a high-powered national tech leaders group says. It is predicted that artificial intelligence and automation alone, will quickly change both the number of jobs and types of available
NZ seen as the world’s living tech lab
Auckland - The announcement of the world’s first self-driving electric air taxi being piloted in Christchurch is just one of the examples of New Zealand becoming a living tech laboratory, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller said today. The Zephyr Airworks aircraft, financed by Google co-founder Larry Page, is a great testimony to