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Monday, 24 May 2021, 5:48 am FintechNZ says the cyber-attack on the Waikato District Health Board is not surprising considering only six percent of Kiwi companies have adequate protection. On average, companies take about 197 days to identify and 69 days to contain a breach according to IBM, FintechNZ general manager James Brown says. James Brown New Zealand has a high concentration of smart phone adoption which could make businesses and organisations more vulnerable, he says. “We have world...

The Medical Research Institute of New Zealand (MRINZ) has received extraordinary recognition at the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance (ACTA) 2021 Trial of the Year Awards, announced in Melbourne last night. MRINZ played a senior role in three clinical ...

Thursday, 20 May 2021, 3:07 pm Today Minister Robertson announced the Government’s Budget allocations for 2021. Under the Strategic Science Investment Fund - Infrastructure category, REANNZ has received additional funding. This funding will provide REANNZ with financial sustainability and enable the organisation to continue to support the Research, Science, Innovation (RSI) and education sector of New Zealand. The funding has been allocated as a part of the Enabling Digital Research: Securin...

Thursday, 20 May 2021, 10:54 am Leaders from high value food, fibre and technology industries across New Zealand are in New Plymouth this week to share their expertise and inspire future innovators. More than 170 speakers, guests and taiohi/rangatahi (youth) are attending Te Hono Māori Future & Tech Summit held at the Plymouth International Hotel today and Friday. Te Hono Steering Committee member and Fomana CEO Wayne Mulligan says the high calibre speakers at the Summit will demonstrate how t...

MetService is forecasting mainly dry weather for the weekend due to high pressure, keeping a low pressure system to the northeast at bay. A front works its way up the South Island tomorrow (Friday), bringing a period of rain to the west and south as ...

Mesa High is about to start a makeover. Construction on the historic, 122-year-old school is to begin Tuesday– two days before the last day of school in the Mesa Public Schools District. Despite pandemic-related sharp declines in enrollment, MPS continues surging ahead with multi-million-dollar construction and renovation plans. At its March 16 meeting, the Mesa Public Schools Governing Board approved the first chunk of a $40-million – up from $35 million – upgrade at Mountain Vi...

A COVID-19 vaccination site at a university campus in Tokyo’s Sumida Ward on May 13 (Ryo Ikeda) Japan will likely need to issue four more emergency declarations by April 2022 if its COVID-19 vaccination program does not significantly pick up the pace, experts warn. Researchers have crunched the numbers and are now calling on the government to inoculate citizens four times faster than the current speed to bring the pandemic under control. The study was done by Yasuharu Tokuda, who heads the Mu...

A computer rendering of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins, MAMS) A group of Japanese researchers has developed a method for artificially synthesizing the novel coronavirus in just two weeks, a potential boon in finding new ways to fight the deadly virus. Researchers said they expect the new method will be useful for analyzing characteristics of emerging variants, which are partially blamed for...

  The opportunity to breed more climate friendly cows is one step closer for New Zealand dairy farmers after a Waikato trial finds a possible link between a bulls’ genetics and the amount of methane they produce. The pilot trial, by artificial breeding companies LIC and CRV with funding from the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre, measured feed intake and methane emissions – in the form of burps – from 20 young bulls destined to father the next generation of New Zeal...

HIRAKATA, Osaka Prefecture--A weak distribution of a certain intestinal bacteria raises the risk of