As franchising moves into 2026, success will come down to getting the right balance between technology and the people behind the brand. The franchising industry is entering a new stage of growth. In ...

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We meet a solutions architect who tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and that for him success is in solving problems with technology, for people. In a recent episode of the First ...

It’s been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there’s no group ...

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It started with a high school typing course. Wanda Woods enrolled because her father advised that typing proficiency would lead to jobs. Sure enough, the federal Environmental Protection Agency hired ...

As generative AI plays an increasingly prominent role in our lives—at work as well as at home—we’d all do well to develop our own nuanced viewpoints about the technology. Over the past three years in ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) will clearly transform our world. It builds upon computers, the internet, mobile technology, and breakthroughs in machine learning but will be more transformational than ...

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From personal health portals to AI assistants that draft emails, the digital age has simplified endless everyday tasks. But for many older New Zealanders, the rapid march of technology has helped ...