Monday, 12 July 2021, 12:07 pm
Rocket Lab opens up its doors to Mission Control for the
first time to fundraise for OMGTech!
For the
first time ever, Rocket Lab is inviting the public into its
Mission Control Centre in Auckland for an exclusive
screening of the latest children’s movie
Moonbound
on Saturday 24 July.
In celebration of Rocket
Lab’s upcoming mission to the Moon for NASA later this
year, tickets to the inaugural Movies in Mission Control
event are being sold to fundraise for OMGTech! – a
nationwide organisation providing science, technology,
creativity, and entrepreneurship resources to
schools.
Rocket Lab’s Mission Control Centre, where
When thinking about how long
humans, Homo sapiens, have existed, you can use this proxy:
if you consider the universe s total age – from the big
bang until today – is represented by the length of your
forearm, human existence takes up just the tip of your
fingernail. So what? you might ask. It
might seem either overwhelming or irrelevant. But, if we
want to think about the future, we have to understand the
trajectories and patterns in our past.
We futurists
constantly ask ourselves, are there cycles, processes or
repetitive patterns that can help inform where we might be
going? How have past technological disruptions changed
Monday, 12 July 2021, 11:23 am
(‘Nitro’ or the ‘Company’), a global document
productivity company driving digital transformation in
organisations around the world, is pleased to announce the
completion of the acquisition of PDFpen, a market-leading
suite of PDF productivity applications for Mac, iPad® and
iPhone®.
On 28 June 2021, Nitro announced the
acquisition of the PDFpen technology from US- based Smile,
Inc. for USD $6 million in cash. The transaction was subject
to customary closing conditions, which have now been
satisfied.
The acquisition, Nitro’s first since its
successful IPO in December 2019, extends native PDF
productivity to Mac, iPad and iPhone users, enabling Nitro
to serve all knowledge workers across businesses globally.
Monday, 12 July 2021, 11:59 am
Bay of Plenty teachers now have access to a world-leading
Te Reo Māori app, through a Ministry of Education
initiative aimed at strengthening New Zealand’s education
workforce in Te Reo.
Reo Ora is a fully automated Te
Reo Māori app developed by one of New Zealand’s leading
linguistics and Māori language experts, Dr. Rāpata Wiri
(Te Arawa, Ngāti Ruapani) and built by Rotorua-based Salt +
Tonic.
Dr. Wiri said the multi-dialect app is the only
one of its kind, accepting answers in all different Māori
dialects based on tribal differences.
Monday, 12 July 2021, 2:15 pm
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today
released a report finding Counties Manukau District Health
Board (CMDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability
Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in its
care of a child later diagnosed with a rare brain
tumour.
The child, aged 5-6 years at the time of these
events, was under the care of CMDHB’s paediatric service.
Her family took her to the public hospital on multiple
occasions with symptoms of persistent abdominal pain,
vomiting and headache. Later, she developed neurological
symptoms including slurred speech.
The fourth time she