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12:01 PM.What3Words, hi tech combat sport and tech news (Blackberry demise, NZ's digital curriculum and Tesla troubles). Audio

1:40 PM.StretchSense's Bluetooth-enabled rubber material can precisely measure your body movements. The New Zealand made wearable technology is currently being used by 200 companies in 28 countries in fields… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.MRI scanners, welding, industrial leak detection, nuclear energy and party balloons; all uses for helium gas. But there have been worries about shortages of supply, growing demand and rising prices… Read more Audio

1:20 PM.Bits and bytes from the world of technology with Peter Griffin. This week the online accomodation rental service Airbnb sues its home city of San Francisco over plans to crackdown on its services. We… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.A 3 kilometre underground beer pipeline's been built to protect the historic city centre of Bruges in Belgium. With Xavier Vanneste of De Halve Maan brewery. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:01 PM.Belgian beer pipeline, tech news (Facebook news feed and Airbnb lawsuit), huge helium find and homegrown wearable technology. Audio

12:50 PM.Dr Chris Smith with science news and this week the prospect of gene editing the herpes virus out of existence. Also new vaccines against the Zika virus might not be too far away. Read more Audio

12:35 PM.China's car industry seems to be calling all the shots in the race to put the internet into more vehicles in the future; bad news for US tech giants like Apple and Google. Also a slump in demand for… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.An expanded Panama Canal, built to cope with today's mega container ships, opened for business last weekend. Walt Bogdanich of The New York Times has been in Panama looking at the building of the… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.Panama Canal expansion, the internet of cars and science news (Zika vaccines and gene editing herpes). Audio

1:50 PM.Imaging technology is revealing medieval manuscripts hidden for hundreds of years. The work's currently being done on handwritten paper and parchments that date back up to 1,100 years, when it was… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Consumer history is littered with product names that have been lost in translation. Now there's something else for people naming new products to worry about! Work in the field of sound symbolism by… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Dr Chris Smith with science news and this week a 'mini gut' created in the lab could help doctors find the best drugs to treat people with cystic fibrosis. Also a so far untold story about the Zika… Read more Audio

1:01 PM.Science news (zika and cystic fibrosis), peak perfomance, symbolic sounds and revealing hidden manuscripts. Audio

12:55 PM.The usual response when a mosquito bites you is to have a good scratch. But stop! Because the inflammation that makes you want to scratch a mosquito bite also dramatically boosts the infection rate… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.The technological advances that are spurring the next generation of TVs. Peter Griffin sorts through quantum dots, 'nits' and the latest HDR, SUHD, 4K and OLED offerings on the market. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Giles Yeo is is a neuroscientist and geneticist from Cambridge University who studies the the brain and how it controls weight. In a new BBC documentary called 'Why Are We Getting So Fat?', he travels… Read more Audio

12:01 PM.A 'fat gene', electric blankets, TV tech and how itching boosts viruses. Audio

1:50 PM.Dr Chris Smith with science news and this week how exercise can help your memory, and a new way to replace damaged bones. Read more Audio

1:35 PM.On the hunt for the endangered North Island kokako on Kapiti Island with bird man Hugh Roberston. Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Robert Matthews' book 'Chancing it: The laws of chance - and what they mean for you' is published by Profile Books. Read more Audio

1:01 PM.Laws of chance, Kokako and science news. Audio