The SingularityU Summit in Christchurch this week was a showcase of all the best and brightest tech coming our way.

The country’s first official demonstration of an autonomous vehicle using New Zealand roads takes place today. The New Zealand Traffic Institute (Trafinz), Volvo, New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) and the Ministry of Transport have come together to show how a self-driving vehicle will handle New Zealand’s road conditions, safely and efficiently.

More than 80 offshore suppliers of remote services have registered for GST since the government widened the tax.

Apple's new coffee table book is just under half the price of its latest iPhone.

Searching for "Kim Fatty the Third" in China? You're out of luck.

COMMENT: Facebook is clearly pushing into media. But that comes with responsibilities.

It's been revealed preinstalled software in Android phones sends data to China every 72 hours.

Google and Facebook are taking aim at false news stories that appear in their feeds.

The first pizza has been delivered by a drone.

COMMENT: Wars, quakes, global warming and Donald Trump. That's 2016, an annus horribilis if there ever was one.

They're a bit too expensive as a stocking stuffer, but Fitbit's new range could be Christmas essentials for the fitness fanatics in your life.

Scientists have deep-dived inside two huge Martian craters they say hold the key to discovering signs of life there.

The personal details of millions who signed up to a sex hook-up website in the past 20 years were exposed in one of the largest ever data breaches.

West Coast residents have been asked to protect the broadband fibre optic cable after the eastern cable was lost in the earthquakes early yesterday.

Is the box in your fridge that chills your food immune from technological disruption? Don't bet on it.

The energy unleashed in the Kaikoura earthquake was equivalent to what could power Christchurch for an entire year.

A pregnant Western Sydney mother has suffered second degree burns from her iPhone 7. Melanie Tan Pelaez had her iPhone 7 plugged

Village Roadshow is known for its measures to stop piracy, but its latest efforts have made an absolute mockery of its harsh stance.

Even the Large Hadron Collider - 18,000km away in Switzerland - reported "feeling" the earthquake.

Scientists have debunked a prediction that a major earthquake could hit the South Pacific on November 14.

Visit any major urban centre today and you are likely to be confronted with hundreds of people walking with their heads down as they fiddle with phones.

Kiwi experts are on the front lines fighting the "antibiotic apocalypse".

COMMENT: How social media is shaping political debate as the public square migrates online.

A series of intelligence briefings will deal with covert actions, contingency plans for using nuclear weapons and even the names of major foreign agents.

Years after most people threw out their VHS machines, there has been a surge in sales to a surprising buyer.

Those who illegally download television shows and movies are about to find it much harder, with leading torrent sites in Google's scope.

In 1970s, some of NZ's leading thinkers were correctly predicting a future of smartphones, broadband and HDTVs. Did we stop trying to gaze beyond horizon?

The Herald has put together the ultimate silly season planning guide to get you to the big day with the minimum of fuss.

Australasia's first Exponential Technology summit organiser Kaila Colbin shares five things she expects to see in the not-too-distant future.

A new law will limit free expression even further.