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Last year Asier Marzo, then a doctoral student at the Public University of Navarre, helped develop the first single-sided acoustic tractor beam - that is, the first realisation of trapping and pulling an object using sound waves from only one direction. Now a research assistant at the University of Bristol, Marzo has lead a team that adapted the technology to be, for all intents and purposes,3Dprintable by anyone (with some assembly required, of ...

From artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things (IoT), far-reaching innovations are unfolding in virtually every technology sector around the globe, continuing to change the way consumers, businesses and machines interact while also spurring the next revolution in tech market growth, according to a new white paper from IHS Markit.

Mitsubishi Electric highlighted its solutions for Edge Computing and support for Cloud Computing as businesses look to reap the benefits of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) at SPS IPC Drives 2016. The Edge Computing solutions are built on local control platforms to provide filtering and pre-processing of production data from intelligent devices, and at the same time facilitate communications to a broad range of standard and niche cloud se...

Professor William Webb, Deputy Chair at CW (Cambridge Wireless) and CEO of the Weightless SIG, has published his latest book that debunks the need and business case for 5G.

According to new research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), increasing consumer enthusiasm for the Internet of Things (IoT) and adoption of emerging technology will drive the U.S. consumer technology industry to $292bn in retail revenues ($228bn wholesale) in 2017.

Massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become a weekly scourge, and with software now embedded in most consumer electronics, the problem will likely only get worse. Author: Michael Joseph,Senior Contributor, CA Technologies

This Christmas the Amazon Echo with Alexa, looks set to be one of the best-selling gifts. Once you have plugged it in, these two can practically run your house for you. Here Varun Nagaraj, President and CEO of Sierra Monitor Corporation, explains more about the Echo, and how it can turn the lights on in your home, as well as locking and unlocking doors, without you moving a muscle.

While 2016 may be remembered for its unexpected political outcomes, technology news has also seen its fair share of publicity. A year that will be remembered for the forced ‘upgrade’ to Windows 10, the short-lived phenomenon that was Pokémon Go and Apple removing the headphone jack from the iPhone, has left 2017 as a year that must generate more positive headlines. Tech blogger Tom Jardine explains.

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) has announced its annual A3 Business Forum, taking place January 18th-20th, 2017 at Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.With more than 525 global automation executives scheduled to attend, the A3 Business Forum is the networking event for robotics, vision, imaging, motion control and motors professionals.

In the 1950s the most common job for American women was a secretary, now into the next century and that still has not changed. Though while women are trying to break through the 'glass ceiling', perhaps it's made of gorilla glass.