Technology
Digital Learning
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a recent Herald article, Caro Rainsford, a director of Google in New Zealand, argued that the lockdown’s closure of schools and universities, paved a new education future of digital learning. She’s talking nonsense. In education terms the Internet is doing no more
Nikola Tesla’s Vibrational Healing Device: Sound & Vibrational Medicine
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It’s Not All Bad News in 2020: Globalisation Is Dead
It’s a little-known fact that, prior to the late 90s/early 2000s, the most intense period of globalisation occurred in the second half of the 19th century. For much of the 20th century, in fact, globalisation was in retreat. Walls and trade barriers went up and stayed up
Another Dangerous Epidemic
The highly contagious COVID-19 epidemic has stopped the world in its tracks. New Zealanders thought that they were okay and free from the virus as they had been told it had been eliminated. Jacinda told the world she had danced in celebration at the news and Kiwis felt reassured
Rare Griffon Vulture Saved With Help From an Israeli Military Drone
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Tech War With China?
Alexander Hall papundits.wordpress.com President Donald Trump’s WeChat executive order shows the war on Chinese subterfuge is bigger than just TikTok. Trump issued two different executive orders on Thursday evening: The “Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok” placed a ban on TikTok from being used
The High Costs and Low Benefits of Electric Vehicles
Duggan Flanakin papundits.wordpress.com The rush to decarbonize every nation in the world in one or maybe two decades reflects the “I want it all NOW!” philosophy imbued through modern education systems. Current and recent former students – and their teachers – demand a perfect world (since they can envision one)
Why Diversity Is Garbage (As an Ex-google Tech Lead)
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Letter from the North: July 20
Following on from my previous letter regarding China, there are now interesting developments in the UK. It has ditched Huawei from the 5G programme and is looking to remove Huawei’s influence from the current infrastructure over the next few years. The UK’s mobile providers are being banned from
Facebook Caves to Liberal Pressure and Agrees to Censor Trump
Corinne Weaver papundits.wordpress.com Corinne Weaver is a staff writer for MRC TechWatch and she works as a senior analyst for the Media Research Center at the NewsBusters site. As the Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow, her coverage on tech censorship, media bias, and pro-life issues have been
Uber, WeWork, Airbnb – How Coronavirus Is Bursting the Tech Bubble
John Colley Warwick Business School, University of Warwick A handful of technology companies have benefited from coronavirus. Amazon has profited handsomely, as have streaming and video conferencing platforms like Netflix and Zoom. But the pandemic has laid bare the shaky foundations of a number of other platforms that bill themselves
A Question of Trust
Val Hooper, Victoria University Gordon Anderson, Victoria University Stephen Blumenfeld, Victoria University Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s novel 1984 will relate to the menace of Big Brother watching their every keystroke and mouse click. For a growing share of the workforce that dystopian reality arrived while most of us
Smugmobile Owners Paid To Charge Cars Over The Holiday Weekend
The renewable energy pricing anomalies strike again. Not only does the long-suffering taxpayer shell out to windfarms operators to not produce electricity it appears they may be subsidising the smugmobile owners as well. When the ‘renewable utility companies have more electricity available than they need to meet demand, what
The BFD Video: A Flock of Angry Birds Attack a 5G Tower
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Did You Hear the One About the Super Model and COVID-19?
No, not that sort of super model, the super computer model that was the basis for the lockdown which trashed the economy – that model. Apparently the decisions in New Zealand were based on models by a group called Te Punaha Matatini, a “Centre of Research Excellence” at Auckland University. Their