Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: US-China rivalry is playing havoc with the tech world
A year ago this week I was in Beijing visiting tech companies and talking to scientists and entrepreneurs about the advances the country is making on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research. Against the backdrop of US president Donald Trump’s escalating trade war wit...
Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Facebook ad boycott - a turning point?
Earlier this week, I watched an argument play out over Twitter about Bill Foley, the American billionaire who has bought up a number of New Zealand’s best-loved vineyards in recent years. A San Francisco Chronicle reporter, looking through the US political donations register, not...
Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Weta takes on Disney and Dreamworks in animation
After 25 years of working on his own and some of Hollywood’s biggest visual effects blockbusters, Sir Peter Jackson is finally getting into animation. Weta Digital is forming Weta Animated, an animation studio that will work on original animated content for cinematic release a...
Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Health reform: Axe the fax then get serious about data
The largest restructure of the health sector in a generation is coming in the next few years with the government signalling it likes the “direction of travel” of the changes recommended in the Heather Simpson review. But halving the number of district health boards, doing away...
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