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Auckland Airport terminal evacuated following smell of electrical burning
Firefighters have been called to the international terminal.

I tried the Gemini app for Windows. It wasted my time
A few months ago, Google released the Gemini app for macOS as a one-stop shop for accessing Google content. It came and went. Now it’s available for Windows too. Is it any better? Nope. My colleague on the AI beat, Ben Patterson, characterized the Mac version of the Gemini app with...

Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon join PyTorch Foundation board
Chinese AI groups gain formal sway over PyTorch's direction, as developers seek support across more chips and cloud environments.

Give Me Space: ETFs Seek to Fill a Void

The AI boom and tariff uncertainty are pushing copper prices to record highs

Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation

Apple's AI strategy took center stage at its iPhone Duo event

Christchurch zoo facing financial crisis amid $4m budget hole
Orana Wildlife Park's board and managers say no decision has been made about its future, but available cash reserves are forecast to run out by March 2027.

Young children still hit hard by flu-like illnesses, even as general hospitalisation rates drop
A paediatrician says the new free flu vaccine for all under-fives is "very timely and needed".

Secure.com warns AI security tools can falter in production
Live testing may show AI security tools missing threats or flooding analysts with false alerts, Secure.com says.

What will and won't change with the CRL opening
While timetables and lines will change the length and variety of trips, fares will be the same.

Cybersecurity experts raise alarm after back-to-back data breaches
Two New Zealand businesses - a health research company and a payroll provider - have fallen victim to hackers.

Esther Ranzen says she is too fragile to travel to Switzerland to end life
The broadcaster and campaigner says she missed her chance to go before living with cancer became "unbearable".

Pacific groups urge CNMI governor to oppose deep sea mining lease sale
Environmental and community groups from across the US Pacific and Caribbean territories are urging CNMI governor to oppose a proposed federal deep sea mining lease sale near the Marianas.

All Blacks v South Africa: Dave Rennie names side for Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry tour finale in Baltimore
A new-look side is expected for Sunday's series finale.

‘This is the end’: New Zealand's 9/11 connections
For those in New York and Washington, DC, including New Zealanders who lived there, the impact was profound.

Tech Life
The government agency that's encouraging high-risk and high-reward research.

The five candidates vying to be Wairarapa's next MP
In 2023, it was a two-horse race between National and Labour, but what does 2026 have in store?

Former Auckland Sky World employees allege humiliation, poor treatment by boss
One ex-employee was awarded $150k for unpaid work and distress has yet to see a cent, while others have come forward to allege similar treatment.

Bank of mum and dad still helping with first homes, despite record KiwiSaver withdrawals
Data this week showed that first-home withdrawals reached record levels in the year to March, when more than 50,000 people withdrew a combined $2.2 billion to buy a first home.

Why it took over a century for Auckland to get its CRL
After a decade of delays, cost blow-outs and disruption to business and commuters, Auckland's City Rail Link is finally due to open this weekend.

Pensioner hit in the pocket by two MSD botch-ups not confident it won't happen again
A review has found more than 30,000 payments were incorrectly suspended due to two separate but related problems following a law change last year.

Gisborne District Council to decide on torching wood and debris on city beaches
Mayor Rehette Stoltz said burning the wood would save a third of the cost of having it carted away.