Auckland Science & Technology News

Residents of an Auckland retirement village now have a robot helper, thanks to new research into inexpensive robotic assistants for the elderly. Selwyn Retirement Village in Pt Chevalier, where its tasks will include taking vital signs and giving reminders.

Xbox Live Gold subscribers who use Facebook and Twitter will get stand-alone applications to allow status updates and tweets right from the console...Facebook streams and updates are visible for friends on the popular social network, and it's possible to compare...

Announcement due on lab testing 13/10/2009 10:12:02 An announcement is being made today on changes to laboratory testing in Auckland. Some of the work recently awarded to Australian firm Labtests will be given back to the previous provider Diagnostic Medlab,...

Icann – the official body that ultimately controls the development of the internet thanks to its oversight of web addresses such as .com, .net and .uk – said today that it was ending its agreement with the US government. The...

A day after Mr Turnbull threatened to quit if rebel Liberal colleagues refused to fall into line over climate change, the move itself appears to have fallen flat. While West Australian MP Barry Haase and NSW senator Bill Heffernan have...

00 16/10/2009 Police and pharmacists warn armed hold-ups may increase because of a crackdown on cold tablets. The Government has banned over-the-counter sales of medicines containing pseudoephedrine – a key ingredient in the manufacture of the class A drug methamphetamine....

The 47-year-old man, who has not been publicly identified, was treated at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland in a collaboration with the producer of the specially-coated pig cells, Living Cell Technologies. He is the first of eight patients to be treated...