South Africa has declared a national disaster owing to the severe drought that is threatening to cease water supplies in City of Cape Town.

The BBC world news desk has compiled a list of the top 11 cities most likely to run out of water — and they’re not where you might think.

An exclusive ski town in Montana, US, called Big Sky, is considering a water reuse scheme that could see it make snow out of recycled wastewater, reports WaterDeeply.com.

Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) is poised to invite bids from mobile desalination providers to augment supplies until its planned large scale projects start producing.

Consent decree under the Clean Water Act to address discharges of untreated sewage into the Great Miami River and Hydraulic Canal.

ARM has responded to the proliferation of AI-based processor designs with two IPs – one for machine learning and the other for object detection in mobile devices. The ML (machine learning) processor is described by ARM as ‘specifically designed for inference at the edge’. It is said to deliver 4.6 TOPs, with an efficiency of …

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KPMG finds ‘tempered optimism’ for industry prospects in 2018 among semiconductor executives. 57% of semiconductor execs expect increased profitability this year – up from 51% in last year’s survey, says KPMG in the report on its annual survey of  execs. Smaller (under $5 billion revenue) companies are more confident than large companies. 37% expect 1-5% …

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It looks as if Toshiba will not get regulatory approval for the sale of its memory business to a Bain-Hynix led consortium by the March 31st deadline. Failure to get approval would be vastly beneficial to Toshiba because it could then keep or IPO the unit, or IPO a part of the unit and still …

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How do you navigate without GPS? Using very expensive accelerometers and gyros and integration, if you are a nuclear submarine. But what if you are a pedestrian? Revealed at the IEEE’s annual International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco this week was a dead-reckoner for walkers that fits in the heel of a shoe, and …

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Electronics Weekly has joined forces with Doulos to discuss the benefits of using C++ for your next Embedded Project.

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