Once upon a time I was totally against nuclear power. And then I heard about climate change and had to re-think my attitude. So, much as I am a fan of off-shore wind for example, I am also now a little more open-minded about fission. Hinkley Point  however has been driving me nuts – not …

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Spectrum Instrumentation has launched a line of arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) based on the LXI instrumentation standard for generating electronic signals in automated test and remote applications. The generatorNETBOX series features seven new models to give users a wide choice of performance levels. Features of the LXI-based arbitrary waveform generators with 14 and 16 bit …

Read full article: Spectrum launches LXI standard AWGs

Three young women engineers have been recognised by Bosch, as part of its BetweenUsWeCan campaign, “which supports efforts to improve gender diversity within engineering”, said the firm. The firm asked 18-25 year olds for visions of how the internet of things (IoT) might transform the way we live our lives. “Winners’ ideas included a sensor-based water irrigation …

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It looks as though Samsung will beat Toshiba to the punch on 64-layer 3D NAND with production starting by the end of the year. Earlier this week, Toshiba said it is sampling 64-layer 3D NAND with production scheduled for H1 2017. “Our goal is to mass-produce SSDs that use our 4G V-NAND within the year,” …

Read full article: Samsung to start production of 64-layer 3D NAND this year

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also referred to as Microsoft AD, now supports routing to your on-premises DNS servers, conditional forwarders and hosts that use public Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Through the link to your VPC, you can now create trusts and domain join hosts with on-premises computers that have public IP addresses. This provides you more flexibility in how you integrate Microsoft AD with your on-premises environment. 

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) supports identity federation, which enables external identities, such as users in your corporate directory, to sign in to the AWS Management Console via single sign-on (SSO). Now with a small configuration change, your AWS administrators can allow your federated users to work in the AWS Management Console for up to 12 hours, instead of having to reauthenticate every 60 minutes. In addition, administrators can now revoke active federated user sessions. 

US forward osmosis firm Oasys Water has followed up its initial success in the Chinese industrial water market with a further three projects…

Partnering agreement improves coordination for large Texas water supply projects.

US consultancy CH2M has won a contract to provide consultancy services for Singapore’s fifth desalination plant…

Charges were brought by the state earlier this year over reports of lead in the drinking water.