Phil Pennington

The NZDF has no doctrine on robotic autonomous systems and is looking to the government to guide their ethical use.

The police are exploring using biometric technology to monitor the vital signs of people detained in station cells.

Health New Zealand is due to finish urgent work stabilising highly fragmented medical scanning systems, which have posed a critical risk to health care for years.

Urgent work to stabilise medical scanning systems such as MRI and CT in public hospitals is running months overdue.

One of the AI systems was 45 percent inaccurate on Māori and Pacific languages, but was still used by officers.

MPs have been told the very low rate of survival estimated if a landslide tsunami hits Milford Sound remains the case but the chase is on to improve understanding of the risks.

MPs demand answers from leaders at select subcommittee inquiry.

Fire protections drop in NZ as wildfires rage overseas

Mahia is this country's only spaceport but its private owner, the NZ-founded US-listed Rocket Lab is so busy that last year New Zealand ranked third-equal with Russia for total launches.

Law changes to prevent ‘risky’ e-scooter indicating