April 14, 2025 • 3 mins
The Morning Edition of News Fix for 15 April 2025, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good morning. I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning News Fox for Tuesday, fifteenth of April. In the
South date thumbs up for the government's tourism campaign. It's
putting thirteen point five million dollars into tourism New Zealand,
targeting markets like China, Australia, the US, India, Germany and
South Korea. Arrivals for February were down this year overall.
(00:27):
Tourism Holding's chief executive Grant Webster told Ryan Bridge it's
the right time to invest often in New Zealand. We
think people just come, you know, because we're a great country,
which we are. We're well less than one percent of
world tourism, so you know, we have to compete. A
fast away to detect cancer may have been found by
Otago University researchers. They've combined atomic force microscopy with AI
(00:51):
defined changes in oral cancer cells at a small scale.
The pioneering method isn't necessarily visible using traditional methods. Lead
author Simon Gouan is hoping the method can be used
for pre cancer diagnosis and other types of cancer.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We still need to do more work on the AI,
so we are still at the early stage.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Holdfully in the future and the price of the comic
Force micastcote it will be cheaper. The days of New
Zealanders leaving on mass for opportunities overseas could be nearing
an end. In the year to February sixty nine, one
hundred New Zealanders left the country, slightly fewer than in
the year to January. It's the first such drop since
the trans tamsment bubble partially reopened in July twenty twenty one.
(01:31):
The Justice Minister is backing facial recognition software to prevent shoplifting,
despite privacy concerns. The technology helped prevent about one hundred
serious harmful events during a supermarket trial, but also misidentified
nine people Jordan done his more.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
The enz In Council for Civil Liberties fears it could
be a slippery slope towards more powerful surveillance. Paul Goldsmith
says he wants to be as enabling as he can
with the technology to help defuse situations early. Goldsmith says
there's obvious tensions around privacy laws, which is still an
area of discussion.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Artificial intelligence experts are hoping for something substantial in the
government's first ever national strategy. The governments released a thirty
eight point to do list for the next three months.
It's promising its strategy will drive adoption of AI to
boost productivity and grow the economy. Popstar Katie Perry and
five other women can now be added to the roster
(02:26):
of people to reach space. The singer joined Bezos's fiancee
Lauren Sanchez and broadcaster Gail King for the all female
crew on Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket. The flight took
the women more than one hundred kilometers above Earth before
safely returning. Kings as a highlight was hearing Peri sing
Louis Armstrong's what a wonderful world because everybody said sing roars,
(02:47):
and she said, it's not about me. I wanted to
talk about the world. In sport, netball New Zealogy of
executive Jenny Wiley has refused to confirm the six A
and Z Premiership franchises will survive once the current and
broadcast deal with Sky expires at the end of this season.
The Golden Bear, Jack Nicholas has welcome the latest come
to golf's career Grand Slammers. That's after Rory McElroy became
(03:11):
the sixth man in the professional four major era to
win the set. With victory at the Masters. Jedi opener
Ratchen Ravindra has made thirty seven off twenty two balls
and the latest five wicket Indian Premier League cricket went
away at Lucknow. I'm never ready, Manu, and that your
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
at midday from the newstalk ZB newsroom
Good morning. I'm never ready, Manu, and this is your
morning News Fox for Tuesday, fifteenth of April. In the
South date thumbs up for the government's tourism campaign. It's
putting thirteen point five million dollars into tourism New Zealand,
targeting markets like China, Australia, the US, India, Germany and
South Korea. Arrivals for February were down this year overall.
(00:27):
Tourism Holding's chief executive Grant Webster told Ryan Bridge it's
the right time to invest often in New Zealand. We
think people just come, you know, because we're a great country,
which we are. We're well less than one percent of
world tourism, so you know, we have to compete. A
fast away to detect cancer may have been found by
Otago University researchers. They've combined atomic force microscopy with AI
(00:51):
defined changes in oral cancer cells at a small scale.
The pioneering method isn't necessarily visible using traditional methods. Lead
author Simon Gouan is hoping the method can be used
for pre cancer diagnosis and other types of cancer.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
We still need to do more work on the AI,
so we are still at the early stage.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Holdfully in the future and the price of the comic
Force micastcote it will be cheaper. The days of New
Zealanders leaving on mass for opportunities overseas could be nearing
an end. In the year to February sixty nine, one
hundred New Zealanders left the country, slightly fewer than in
the year to January. It's the first such drop since
the trans tamsment bubble partially reopened in July twenty twenty one.
(01:31):
The Justice Minister is backing facial recognition software to prevent shoplifting,
despite privacy concerns. The technology helped prevent about one hundred
serious harmful events during a supermarket trial, but also misidentified
nine people Jordan done his more.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
The enz In Council for Civil Liberties fears it could
be a slippery slope towards more powerful surveillance. Paul Goldsmith
says he wants to be as enabling as he can
with the technology to help defuse situations early. Goldsmith says
there's obvious tensions around privacy laws, which is still an
area of discussion.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Artificial intelligence experts are hoping for something substantial in the
government's first ever national strategy. The governments released a thirty
eight point to do list for the next three months.
It's promising its strategy will drive adoption of AI to
boost productivity and grow the economy. Popstar Katie Perry and
five other women can now be added to the roster
(02:26):
of people to reach space. The singer joined Bezos's fiancee
Lauren Sanchez and broadcaster Gail King for the all female
crew on Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket. The flight took
the women more than one hundred kilometers above Earth before
safely returning. Kings as a highlight was hearing Peri sing
Louis Armstrong's what a wonderful world because everybody said sing roars,
(02:47):
and she said, it's not about me. I wanted to
talk about the world. In sport, netball New Zealogy of
executive Jenny Wiley has refused to confirm the six A
and Z Premiership franchises will survive once the current and
broadcast deal with Sky expires at the end of this season.
The Golden Bear, Jack Nicholas has welcome the latest come
to golf's career Grand Slammers. That's after Rory McElroy became
(03:11):
the sixth man in the professional four major era to
win the set. With victory at the Masters. Jedi opener
Ratchen Ravindra has made thirty seven off twenty two balls
and the latest five wicket Indian Premier League cricket went
away at Lucknow. I'm never ready, Manu, and that your
latest news fix. We'll be back with the next update
at midday from the newstalk ZB newsroom
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