Social media platforms have become the "digital town squares" of our time, enabling communication and the exchange of ideas on a global scale.

With Indians making up 5% of New Zealand's population and forming a valuable source of skilled IT workers, a new initiative aims to build on linkages between the two countries' digital and tech sectors.

While there is evidence pointing to the distraction cellphones cause, and cyberbullying is clearly a toxic trend, the problem is too nuanced for a blanket cellphone ban during the school day.

This week I tried using Google's Bard to write this blog. Over 20 articles with everything from AI and War (scary), AI and emissions from airplanes (cool), Apple, Toyota, IBM all investing heavily, facial recognition gone wrong, automation tools for technical debt and scrum masters.

Millions of people worldwide are lining up to stare into a silver sphere about the size of a bowling ball so their irises can be scanned in exchange for online identity verification and "free" cryptocurrency.