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[ad_1] A Chinese physicist claimed to have built a quantum computer that would leave Western competitors in the dust, but he and his team said they needed to “further verify” the claim. Pan Jianwei, a physicist at the China University of Science and Technology, announced at a conference at Westlake …

[ad_1] There are no rules that tell people how to celebrate Matariki, and doing some could be quite “dangerous,” thinks one expert. If re-elected, the Labor Party plans to introduce a public holiday in Matariki by 2022. Stuff launched a campaign in July arguing that Aotearoa is behind in a …

[ad_1] It was supposed to be a year to remember for the rest of his life. And it will be, but not for the reasons Waikato teenager Tommy O’Brien intended when he began his senior year at Cambridge High School as its 2020 principal. The 18-year-old soccer fan was diagnosed …

[ad_1] Countdown supermarkets will limit the sale of acetaminophen after the overdose death of a Dunedin student. Countdown announced today that stores nationwide will limit the sale of acetaminophen and items containing acetaminophen to one package per customer. The measure follows the findings published by coroner David Robinson on the …

[ad_1] COMMENTARY: Is the outcome of the 2020 election really the foregone conclusion that polls and commentators suggest? Josh Van Veen suggests otherwise, pointing to some of the shortcomings of opinion polls that could cause some politicians to say “screw the pollsters” on election night. In November 1993, opinion polls …

[ad_1] More resource consents, more monitoring, more money and more staff: New government rules for freshwater management will cost the West Coast a lot, says regional council president Allan Birchfield. Final freshwater policies and regulations came into effect last week and regional councils across the country must now enforce them. …

[ad_1] US President Donald Trump spoke privately about the “deadly” coronavirus last February, even as he declared to the United States that it was no worse than the flu and insisted it was under control, according to a new book by the journalist. Bob Woodward. Trump said Wednesday that he …

[ad_1] The New Zealand health minister has pleaded with people to stop spreading misinformation about the coronavirus, as the government struggles to contain a mini-group centered on an evangelical church in Auckland. The mini-cluster started with four cases in the suburb of Mt Roskill last month and has now grown …

[ad_1] Fake news, misinformation and conspiracy theories threaten to derail the country’s response to Covid-19 and impede progress towards alert level 1. The government has issued a strong warning after revealing that people linked to the Mt Roskill church group were skeptical about the severity of the pandemic, while an …

[ad_1] “The repeated, deliberate and malicious spread of misinformation” threatened to block a move to alert level 1, says Health Minister Chris Hipkins. Hipkins’ comments follow health officials who revealed four new Covid-19 cases today, two of which are in the community. The other two are border cases in managed …