Saudi Arabia has prequalified nine consortia for its mega desalination public-private partnership (PPP) project Rabigh 3, reports MEED.

The International Desalination Association (IDA) is to partner with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), and its Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) initiative.

Water crises are ranked the fifth biggest world risk by impact, before cyberattacks, involuntary migration, and infectious diseases, in the latest global risks report from the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The Government is promoting gender diversity in the tech sector and will sign up to the Tech Talent Charter, an initiative tackling the gender imbalance in the tech workforce. The Tech Talent Charter covers all organisations employing people in technology roles and commits signatories to including women on interview shortlists wherever possible and collecting and …

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This was a new one to me: the Photon microcontroller from Particle, an entry-level IoT prototyping board.

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Is the suggestion by the White House that the US government will build a 5G network serious? Or is it a witty way to kick operator ass into getting on with building their own networks? Operators around the world have been questioning the business case for 5G. They’ve been moaning about the costs. They’ve been …

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AVX has extended its portfolio of high-performance, low-pass integrated thin film (ITF) filters with the release of six new 8W LP Series filters in miniature 1206 chip sizes with low maximum height profiles of 0.97mm. Based on thin film multilayer technology, the SMD filters deliver excellent high-frequency performance with low insertion loss and extremely sharp …

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Arrow and Cadence have launched the Cadence OrCAD Entrepreneur package for OrCAD Capture Cloud on the Arrow.com design center. The new software tool suite cuts in half the time that it takes a designer to move from design to prototype, when compared to the traditional process of manually designing and simulating across separate systems. Designers …

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Thanks to Promotionalcodes.com for this one – the ten obsolete tech products which inspire the most nostalgia: Floppy disk Nintendo 64 Fax machine Dumb phones Walkman Typewriter Ceefax VCR PDA Polaroid cameras        

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Infineon had calendar Q4 revenue of €1,775 million for a profit of  €283 million. For 2018 it expects revenue growth of 5% plus or minus 2 percentage points. For calendar Q1 it expects growth of 4% plus or minus 2 percentage points. “Infineon has made a strong start to the new fiscal year,” says Dr. Reinhard …

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