Peter Griffin

Science Investment Plan? You don’t fund a moonshot by cannibalising your launch pad.

We should make it easy to plug in and benefit from the brain gain.

NZ's ongoing fossil fuel dependency is an invitation to the next crisis.

The new coalition government has difficult decisions to make about R&D spending.

Artificial intelligence is no longer confined to the data centres of Silicon Valley or the cloud regions dotted around the world. It is heading into orbit, hitching a ride on satellites and space stations in a way that could transform defence, climate monitoring, disaster response – and the balance of power itself. Starcloud, Google's Project Suncatcher, SpaceX V3 Starlink satellites, and Axiom Space represent the first wave of the orbital AI race.When SpaceX undertakes its initial public offeri

The Government is lowering its 2050 methane reduction target and confirming a review will take place in 2040 to assess whether New Zealand’s reduction efforts align with high-emissions countries.Cabinet will soon approve a new target range of 14–24% below 2017 methane emission levels by 2050. That’s a drop from the previous target range of 24-47%..Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced the changes in Te Pahu, near Hamilton, at midday, alongside Climate Change Minister Simon Watts and Biosecu

By Mark GongloffEvery now and then, you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to cut through the noise and change minds.Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth, recently produced a stark illustration of just how quickly the planet is heating up as a result of the greenhouse gases humans pump into the atmosphere. It’s a chart, published in his Substack newsletter The Climate Brink, breaking down the percentage of the world’s land that has experienced its hottest

Zuckerberg testifies in the FTC’s antitrust trial against Meta, chip makers tot up the cost of new restrictions on exports to China, and how to do DOGE the right way in New Zealand.

The ability to send a text message from anywhere could be a lifesaver.

At a cybersecurity research briefing I attended in Auckland yesterday there was plenty of talk of the treat posed by sophisticated Russian hackers behind ransomware and botnet attacks. “But I thought Russia was no longer a threat?” I quipped, referring to US moves last week to suspend some of its

Boston Consulting Group suggests we should focus on five industry ecosystems in areas ranging from agriculture 4.0 to the space industry, playing to our strengths to boost the economy.

If we thought 2024 was challenging, wait until we see what 2025 has in store for us with significant change ahead on a local and global scale. How we rise to the challenges will define us.

On this episode of The Business of Tech podcast, we discuss the deal between Elon Musk's SpaceX and One NZ for satellite to mobile connectivity. Then our fe...

The US Government is in for a major shake-up with Elon Musk’s confirmation as head of a panel that will lead a major efficiency drive aimed at cutting burdensome regulations and saving taxpayer dollars. Just how the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will work hasn’t been outlined yet, but

Webinar Recording and Transcript Host: Kevin Whitmore, Business Innovation Advisor at Callaghan Innovation Guests: Pramodya De Alwis - Head of Technology - Interoperability at Futureverse Webinar Length: 47:52 Webinar Recording and Transcript00:00:00…

Webinar Recording and Transcript Host: Kevin Whitmore, Business Innovation Advisor at Callaghan Innovation Guests: Siddharth Sthalekar - Founder Neighbourhoods Webinar Length: 49.07 The cultural implications of decentralised communities [00:00:00]…

Emeritus Professor Sally Davenport. (Image: Supplied) A decade-long $680 million experiment in how to do “mission-led” science has just ended with the dissolution of 11 National Science Challenges that funded hundreds of research projects across the…

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The Australian government has announced a pledge of approximately A$940 million (US$617 million) to PsiQuantum, a quantum computing start-up company based in Silicon Valley. Half of the funding will come from the Queensland government, and in…

Industry body, the NZ Tech Alliance yesterday published a report highlighting an inconvenient truth for Aotearoa. We aren’t doing nearly enough to cut our greenhouse gas emissions to meet our 2050 net zero target. In fact, the Independent Climate…