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Wednesday, 17 February 2021, 11:15 am Unusual brews made with seafood, foraged botanicals and barrel-aged ales are just some of the entries vying to win a new city-wide beer competition. Eleven Wellington-based brewers will take part in the inaugural Rare Beer Challenge next month to raise awareness of the 300,000 New Zealanders living with a rare disorder for Rare Disease Day 2021. “Inspired by the great work of Rare Disorders NZ, Fortune Favours has challenged other Wellington brewers to create their own unique brew to showcase less common techniques and flavours,” says Shannon Thorpe, ...

Is being rude to Siri and Alexa the new dating dealbreaker? Newshub 2/02/2021 Rachel Sadler, The Project © Video - The Project; Image - Getty Images Watch: Is being rude to Siri and Alexa the new dating dealbreaker? They say you can tell a lot about someone by the way they treat wait staff, but can the same be said of how we speak to our artificial intelligence assistants, such as Siri or Alexa. Over the last decade, voice recognition has led to a whole new level of human-robot relationships. The fact there's no real person behind an AI's algorithm could provide the perfe...

Ardern was asked whether the Government’s latest and ongoing housing policy reset was really only wanting house price inflation to moderate to around last year’s 4 per cent rise, rather than for house prices to actually fall. What would be so bad about a fall in house prices, she was asked. “It is much more sustainable to have those much smaller increases. I think people expect that you see that in the market,” Ardern said. “What we also accept is that for most New Zealanders, their house is their most significant asset. So if you see, for instance – as was predicted at the beg...

Patrick Gower on Lockdown and Taranaki Hard delivering unmissable Kiwi stories of mirth, mire and mayhem. We didn’t know we needed Black Hands until it arrived, turning in a beautifully grim retelling of New Zealand’s darkest day, utilising our finest actors, writers, directors and set builders. It left us wondering, yet again: Whodunnit? Netflix The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix) It took an orphaned prodigy to make us pull those dusty chess sets out from the back of the cupboard and begin creating irreparable family rifts again. Based on a 1983 novel, The Queen’s Gambit floundered for y...

AP Pedestrians in masks pass a store in the Far Rockaway neighbourhood of the borough of Queens in New York. OPINION: By the time you’re reading this, barring some unforeseen mishap, I will have just touched the ground at JFK (on a cold and more than likely wet December day). After six years with Stuff, I’ve packed in my dream job, and left a country that’s virtually Covid-free and about to enjoy a summer of Christmas gatherings, crowd-friendly sports events and music festivals, to fly into a winter of simmering discontent. A few of my friends and family have been struggling to get...