LJ Rich looks at the best of the week`s technology news stories of the week. Read...

AMD responded to Intel`s 12th-gen Core chips in a big way on Tuesday, revealing a swathe of new chips—including the Ryzen 7 5800X3D with radical V-Cache technology—and expanded support for older motherboards. Read...

Foxconn, one of Apple`s biggest suppliers, has suspended operations in Shenzhen as China locks down the technology hub and several other regions to contain the country`s worst Covid-19 outbreak in two years. Read...

The sport of surfing is modernising, using technology to offer bigger, better and safer thrills. Read...

As technology continues to revolutionize the way people live, work and spend, central banks around the globe have kicked off efforts to reinvent their local currencies for the digital era. Now, the United States is the latest to signal `urgency` in researching a potential digital version of its dollar via a Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC. Read...

Both Dell and Lenovo appear to be passing on Microsoft`s Pluton technology for securing their PCs. But the reason why might not be all that complicated. Read...

Andy Warhol was such a distinctive figure -- cutting across the worlds of art, media and pop culture -- that a docuseries about his life could hardly be boring, and `The Andy Warhol Diaries` isn`t. But this six-part Netflix production does unfold at a languid, almost-hypnotic pace, while employing AI technology to create Warhol`s voice reading his words from the great beyond, which is as oddly creepy as that sounds. Read...

New Zealand technology company LanzaTech has announced plans to list on the Nasdaq through merging with a special purpose acquisition company (Spac) in a deal expected to value it at US$2.2 billion.LanzaTech began in New Zealand... Read...

US technology giants Netflix and Oracle are the latest to move to distance themselves from Russia Read...

Transportation technology services company EROAD Limited (NZX/ASX: ERD) (EROAD), with its purpose of safer and more sustainable roads, today announced that it has renewed its largest New Zealand Enterprise customer contract, Downer EDI Limited (Downer). T Read...