Next year, AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile all plan to shut down their 3G networks, even as 5G rollouts continue around the country and around the world. And 5G isn’t just about making movie downloads and video calls faster for end consumers – it has the potential to enable entirely new […]
New Technology
The Technology Transfer Office at Marshall Space Flight Center has selected winners for a contest held in summer 2021, awarding five cash prizes to civil servants who entered new technology reports with the most commercial potential. Commercialization experts carefully reviewed entries, which were judged based on their ability to transfer […]
There are two wrong – but curiously common – ways to approach new technological developments in the arts: automatically reject them, or rush to embrace them. Many instinctively dismiss new modes on the grounds that art needs to be made by proper means. History doesn’t demonstrate that at all: rather, […]
(Image by Tom Burgess from Pixabay) The UK’s data economy grew at double the rate of the national economy over the last decade, according to Steven Almond, Director of Technology and Innovation at the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). That’s good news, though the economic story of the last ten years […]
In the world of automation, many technology providers are well-known names—at least to purchasers in the manufacturing and processing industries. But the rise of industrial digitalization has led to a large number of new companies entering the automation technology scene. These companies are targeting analytics and other software-related issues, developing […]
The old MA1 ventilator vs a ventilator used today. (Courtesy Photo) By Mylika ScatliffeSpecial to the AFRO The Oxford dictionary defines technology as the “application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.” Another definition states that “technology is the application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of […]