COMMENT: Creation of a superior being that can out-perform humans is underway so developers better not get left behind.

A group of 14 Kiwi companies are heading to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, we take a look at the best of New Zealand's start-up technology.

After months of pilot programmes OMGTech! launched their nationwide initiative to enable access for all children in NZ to learn advanced technology.

A British developer has come up with an ingenious way of getting rid of annoying spam emails and getting revenge on the people sending them in one fell swoop.

Six teams of developers will face off, algorithm against algorithm, in a hacking battleships tournament tomorrow.

Thousands of New Zealand businesses could have their websites bumped down Google's search results if they do not meet the requirements for mobile by tomorrow.

Microsoft is killing off Internet Explorer and will rebrand its internet browsing software under what is currently code-named Project Spartan, later this year.

Diligent Board Member Services expects sales growth of up to 19 per cent in 2015 as it attracts customers to its BoardBooks service, and plans to launch a new product this year.

From the iCloud breach that saw nude images of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities leaked online, to "The Snappening" that resulted in thousands of private Snapchat images being....

The lack of students leaving secondary school with Information and Communications Technology qualifications has been a concern for several years, however the Auckland Business Leaders Group says fixing it more urgent than ever.

In November last year Datacom attended the New Zealand Job Fair in Sydney, organised by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

New Zealand needs to prepare itself for a robot future - that's the message from a delegation of young Kiwis on a tour of several of Asia's renowned robotics institutes.

Point-of-sale software company Vend has grown to more than 200 staff and seven offices worldwide, and chief executive Vaughan Rowsell expects it to keep expanding.

It's being described as a war, an arms race, an unseen struggle where the stakes are being raised and the weapons redefined each minute - the war a faceless cyber-criminal.

If the path to success is treading where others won't, then technology entrepreneur Sir Neville Jordan was already on his way at 13.

This week, as The Interview's December 25 US release date loomed, the Guardians of Peace threatened "the world will be full of fear", hinting at a 9/11-style attack.

SkyTV, Spark's Lightbox and Quickflix, pretend in public they're not concerned about Netflix arriving, but that's just bluster, writes Juha Saarinen.

Tech blogger Juha Saarinen talks about his concerns with copyright in the digital age and reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 10.

Finger print identification, a standard feature on new iPhones will soon be common place, a visiting biometrics expert says.

Andrew Ferrier is well and truly back in the public eye.

Tech is part of everyone's life in Japan, but doesn't appear to have supplanted their livelihood, even for menial tasks.

Hewlett-Packard is splitting into two companies, using a breakup to become nimbler after failing to keep up.

Upcoming changes to the NZ financial services industry pose significant security threats for consumers, banks and merchants, says an anti-fraud expert.

Among the things that lead normal, well-balanced people to conclude that the IT industry is crazy are the valuations at which internet companies are launched on the sharemarket and the prices these companies pay to acquire apparently minuscule start-ups.

Nanotechnology will experience huge growth in the coming years and affect most areas of our lives, says an expert in the field, Auckland University senior lecturer Michelle Dickinson.