Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development chief executive Brett O'Riley says the development of innovation hub GridAKL is a big plus for 

New research has highlighted the evolution of Auckland's innovation spaces and how they're changing the shape of commercial real estate

The huge wave of Internet of Things (IoT) enabled devices has the U.S. government worried that the technology harbors lurking security threats

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) is another hot area for wearable sales, according to the latest figures from IDC, a market research firm. Sales totalled 482,000 for the second quarter of 2016—which starts at April 1 and finishes June 30—a 66 percent increase on the same quarter last year. See Also: Teva and Intel using wearables to monitor Huntington’s disease Basic wearable devices, which are unable to load third-party applications, are the best sellers in the MEA region

A recent survey by AAA hinted that as much as 75% of all drivers are hesitant to hop in a fully autonomous vehicle in fear that the technology is less safe than a human driver. That’s a big hurdle for car makers working on their own self-driving technologies to overcome. After all, what good are the billions of dollars worth of research and testing if you can’t convince three-fourths of the public to step into your vehicle – let alone purchase one

Over the last 20 years, technologists have been working hard to create solutions to the challenges of gun safety. Their efforts have kept pace with the technological developments of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, sensor technology, wearables and IoT. Yet their implementation has been slow, if not stalled to a halt