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5G: hype vs reality – Expert Q&A

5G: hype vs reality – Expert Q&A

Expert Q&A  |  Published: 10 July 201904 December 2019

5G has been lauded as a game-changing technology, but will 5G actually change our lives? The latest upgrade to the […]

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No link found between brain cancer and mobile use

In the News  |  Published: 26 February 201528 March 2016

Despite a dramatic increase in the use of mobile phones, there hasn’t been a matching rise in the incidence of […]

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‘Anti-rape’ mobile app flawed

In the News  |  Published: 06 October 201406 October 2014

The Dominion Post quotes New Zealand experts commenting on a new mobile phone app that was designed to check for consent before […]

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Media Coverage: Cellphones “Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans”

In the News  |  Published: 02 June 201102 June 2011

The suggestion from a WHO task-force that cellphone exposure is “possibly carcinogenic”  has generated wide spread media buzz over the […]

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Experts on mobile phones and child behaviour

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 07 December 2010

A newly published paper has drawn a link between regular mobile phone use by pregnant women before and after their […]

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TVNZ/One News/Closeup: Warning over the danger of GPS devices

In the News  |  Published: 10 August 2010

An Australian researcher believes that using GPS devices in cars can be as dangerous as using mobile phones. Professor Mark […]

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No link between cellphone towers and early childhood cancers

Expert Reactions  |  Published: 23 June 2010

Concerns have been raised in New Zealand and abroad about whether exposure by pregnant women to electromagnetic radiation from cellphone […]

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Newsletter Digest: Synthetic cells, troubled teens and Interphone

Blog  |  Published: 21 May 2010

Synthetic biology breakthrough Geneticist Dr Craig Venter was integral to the sequencing of the human genome. Now he claims to […]

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Media coverage: Mobile phones and cancer risk

In the News  |  Published: 18 May 201018 May 2010

The release of a 10-year WHO study into mobile phone use and brain cancer risk — Interphone — has led […]

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NZ Herald: Ban hands-free kits too, expert says

In the News  |  Published: 02 November 2009

With the recent ban on the use of mobile phones in cars unless using a hands-free kit, conversation has been […]

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