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Country Life: Jemma Ostenfeld, a heritage seed collector with an eye on the future
There's a story to many of the heritage seedlings which Jemma Ostenfeld grows on a patch of borrowed land in the eastern Bay of Plenty.

Get Lenovo’s decked-out Ryzen ThinkPad laptop for $400 off right now
Whether you’re self-employed or just gung-ho about work, it’s high time you prioritized your professional life and got a proper professional laptop. And if you can get a great laptop that’s also on sale, even better, right? Well, this Lenovo ThinkPad E16 G2 is down to $900 on Amazon with...

This HP OLED laptop with 24 hours of battery life is on sale for just $550
The new crop of laptops based on Qualcomm’s Arm processors aren’t exactly powerhouses, but they’re some of the most efficient laptops we’ve ever tested. In fact, the HP OmniBook 5 is our current battery champion, lasting over 24 hours in a standardized 4K video test. Today, Amazon is selling it...

Rockstar postpones GTA 6 release date again by several months
It’s been a wild ride for fans awaiting Grand Theft Auto VI. The game was initially slated for a 2025 release, then official announced with a May 2026 release date. But there have been rumors that Grand Theft Auto VI could get postponed again, and now those rumors are reality. Yesterday,...

Otago medical students home safe after political violence erupts in Tanzania
Six students away on medical elective are back in New Zealand, after deadly protests led to a night-time curfew in Dar es Salaam and a nationwide internet shutdown.

Monitoring programme helps people decide where to swim
Taranaki beaches, lakes and rivers will be back under the microscope this summer, with the Can I Swim Here? programme about to kick off.

Infostealers are making this old security practice new again
I’m a semi-old, to riff on today’s online parlance. Things have changed a lot since I was young, especially with computers. A lot of advice just isn’t as applicable in quite the same way as it was 20 years ago. And yet what’s old is new again. Because compromised software is...

Country Life: A Kiwi's life in the world's largest dairy farms
Berwick Settle has worked on some of the biggest dairy farms in the world, where cows never go outside the barn and must take regular showers to stay cool and keep the milk flowing.

Kim Kardashian laughs off savage reviews of her TV drama
She plays a divorce lawyer in All's Fair, which one critic said "may be the worst TV drama ever".

Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga lead 2026 Grammy nominations
Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar lead the nominees, while K-Pop breaks into the song of the year category.

This Intel mini PC at $189 is the smartest buy you’ll make this week
Let’s be honest here: if you’re mainly just browsing the web, responding to emails, and watching YouTube and Netflix, then you don’t need a rocket PC. And if you never take your work on the go, then you don’t even need a laptop. Why waste hundreds of bucks when you...

'It's just a misunderstanding' - How the war in Gaza is crushing Jordan's tourism economy
The Detail's Sharon Brettkelly visits Jordan, where the tourism industry propping up the country's economy has been all but decimated by the war in neighbouring Israel.

This GPU is so big, it comes with a sag detector to protect your mobo
Graphics cards are getting bigger and bigger, ballooning out with massive casings and coolers to augment the ever-more-powerful chips inside. The oversized Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090 Anniversary Edition might be the biggest consumer model out there, and it’s so big it practically demands an elaborate mount setup. The latest...

Life in a peaceful country with war on its doorstep
The Detail's Sharon Brettkelly visits Jordan, where the tourism industry propping up the country's economy has been all but decimated by the war in neighbouring Israel.