Chris Keall

Locals wowed as Rocket Lab barges giant 'hungry hippo' nose cone out of Warkworth America's Cup technology meets the space race.

The UFO (unidentified floating object) spotted by locals at Warkworth and various points north ...
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Summer in Neuva Zealand

Anyone see if I won the FIFA Peace Prize?

A reporter just returned from a swing by Ikea and said while there was a queue of around 400 waiting for the store to open, she has never seen the roads around Sylvia Park so quiet. Everyone scared off, at least today

Have to wait until Dec 15 for delivery. Not great. Even the online-inept The Warehouse Group manages faster than that

Just ordered a console table from Ikea's website and it was $29 to get it delivered to a collection point such as Mainfreight Hobsonville (other options incl $0 for click and collect or an after-hours locker, $49 for home delivery). Also a $42.94 option to get my purchase "professionally assembled"

Been two weeks of free advertising for you-know-who. AT/NZTA style has always been “Event today …”

I don’t feel safe in this social media conversation

Watch: Inside Auckland’s $1 billion new convention centre The $1b centre will open to the public on February 11 next year.

Admittedly, about half the $1 billion is because it had to essentially be built a second time after the fire. Still, behold. Theatre's very swish. Lots of escalators www.nzherald.co.nz/business/wat...

In a shock move, the NZ International Convention Centre has gone with cheese rolls over sausage rolls for its preview day. Not sure if culturally appropriate north of Dunedin

It's a big Media Looking at Things day in Auckland, with previews of Ikea and the $1 billion NZ International Convention Centre. I'll be at the NZICC

Y/N?

Taking the train is fine. Leaving with 120kg of kitset furniture, not so much

Haven't read AT's Ikea traffic plan. Assuming it's "shelter in place"

Getting ready for the 5-a-side cricket tournament that will decide this year’s Deloitte Fast 50

Eventually, he gave up and emailed me: "You are now the keeper of the Green Lantern". Just found it in a clean out (2/2)

Was at an awards show in 2014 that I had to write up, with pics. The internet in the hotel ballroom was slow, so the photographer gave me his stills on a thumb drive. A Green Lantern thumb drive. He kept reminding me, but I never got around to returning it (1/2)

National deletes AI video of police seizing gang patches Christopher Luxon said in 2023 he would 'draw the line at' using AI video ads, but his office now says that only applied to fakes of real people.

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The headline provides one take

Watson was one of three defendants named in a 2021 complaint by the SEC over share-trading in his drinks company Long Island Iced Tea when it joined the crypto bandwagon in 2017 by rebranding as Long Blockchain.

‘I am winning’: Eric Watson defiant after latest US court loss Embattled businessman speaks from Mallorca of his AI-assisted self-representation.

Eric Watson says he used not a team of lawyers but a team of AIs to create his latest legal letters and briefs: "I use a combination of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and one other – four different AI systems – and it’s pretty good, actually” www.nzherald.co.nz/business/mar...

“There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever"

Vicario probably best time-wasting of any Prem player this season, fwiw

I nodded at the machine and said "It tastes like motor oil" so he probably inferred I was not after a cup

Sam Stubbs just wandered over to the kitchen off the newsroom and made his own coffee. Sign he's a regular interviewee/and or that he's saving up to start his own infrastructure fund

Police Commissioner accidentally took FBI director for 'brief dip' during active tsunami advisory Richard Chambers later apologised after learning the advisory was still in place.

An odd thing to do, forget the tsunami warning
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Uber and Uber Eats earn $402m revenue in NZ, pay less than $1m tax Both operations make hefty payments to their US parent company.

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