Tech Matters - Geoff Palmer - Award-Winning Author

Closing Windows

Around 400 million PCs will be made
obsolete in October. Is yours one of them? What can you do about it?

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Last September, deep in the bowels of Microsoft Office 365, a small addition was made. A simple tick box with[…]

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The situation Imagine you take delivery of a brand new car. As you’re handed the keys the salesperson holds up[…]

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Ah, your car. The one place in the world you can be yourself… Think again!

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Could a llama write your next novel? How about in the style of J. K. Rowling or Lee Child? I put a free open source LLM through its paces.

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You might have thought the biggest privacy breach in New Zealand’s history would rate a little more publicity. After all,[…]

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Yesterday, I discovered that Google appeared to be tracking each page of NZ’s online 2023 census form. Tomorrow, census day,[…]

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Once again, Stats NZ is providing a platform for Google to look over the shoulders of every NZer at census time.

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The term Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) began as a joke back in 1995 when a New York psychiatrist named Ivan[…]

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The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ kicks off today, and if you’re attending in person… well, you have my sympathy.[…]

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