Technology

[ad_1] Rare earth elements are in high demand from manufacturers of electric vehicles, cell phones and solar panels, but with one country responsible for the majority of material exports, there are suggestions that New Zealand and others should come together to secure their own. supply. ANALYSIS: More than 10,000 miles …

[ad_1] Cosmic Sin (R13, 88mins) Directed by Edward Drake * ½ Almost 500 years after humanity founded its first base outside of Earth and quantum propulsion technology allowed us to colonize the cosmos, a crisis is looming. Two Vander Mining Corporation workers made the first contact, and it wasn’t exactly …

[ad_1] Mike Corder / AP A Dutch startup is using drones to kill moths in the air as a way to protect valuable crops in greenhouses damaged by caterpillars. Dutch watercress grower Rob Baan has hired high-tech helpers to fight a pest in his greenhouses: palm-sized drones search for and …

[ad_1] Fiona Goodall / Getty Images A police officer talks to a traveler at a checkpoint on the Auckland border. Checkpoints will drop before the alert level change on Sunday at 6am. There are no new cases of Covid-19 in the community, announced the Ministry of Health. The update, on …

[ad_1] Fiona Goodall / Getty Images A police officer talks to a traveler at a checkpoint on the Auckland border. Checkpoints will drop before the alert level change on Sunday at 6am. The country is ready to find out if there are any new Covid-19 cases in the community before …

[ad_1] Fiona Goodall / Getty Images A police officer talks to a traveler at a checkpoint on the Auckland border. Checkpoints will drop before the alert level change on Sunday at 6am. No new community cases of Covid-19 have been reported overnight as the country prepares to move alert levels …

[ad_1] LAST VIRUS • ‘I feel like crying’: MIQ hotel workers on minimum wage share stories• Claire Trevett: the PM, the L case and the pickle of confusion• Who was told what, when? Chronology of messages to the Papatoetoe community• ‘Frank’ talk by the prime minister and the director about …

[ad_1] LAST VIRUS: • ‘I feel like crying’: MIQ hotel workers on minimum wage share stories• Claire Trevett: the PM, the L case and the pickle of confusion• Who was told what, when? Chronology of messages to the Papatoetoe community• ‘Frank’ talk by the prime minister and the director about …

[ad_1] More than 50,000 vehicles have been stopped at Auckland’s border checkpoints since the city was again blocked due to the latest community outbreak. More than 800 of the stopped motorists were turned away, most of them on the southern border of the region. Checkpoints were established starting at 6 …

[ad_1] OPINION: There is an old saying: you have to be cruel to be nice. Perhaps it is time for the powers that be to consider it. For starters, criticize willful rule breakers, prosecute them according to the law, and show kindness to the majority of the people in this …