A 5.2% stake in the controversial Victorian Desalination Project has been sold off by Pacific Partnerships to AMP Capital…

The new 38,000-square-foot production center features expanded manufacturing facilities, state-of-the art laboratories, a bulk tank farm, and an optimized floor plan.

Michael Chan, Ontario Minister of International Trade, made the announcement in his opening remarks at Water Innovation Week.

Further reducing water usage in vehicle production, Ford sets long-term goal to use zero potable water in manufacturing.

Baidu is using Xilinx FPGAs to accelerate machine learning applications in their data centres in China.

Read full article: Baidu adopts Xilinx ICs for FPGA acceleration

The application processor (AP) market grew 3% on year to $10 billion in H1 2016, while the tablet AP sector declined 34% to $889 million.

Read full article: Apps processor market grows 3% while tablet AP market sinks 34%

Mentor Graphics is reported to be exploring options for selling the company after it has been receiving the attentions of activist investor hedge fund Elliott Management.

Read full article: Mentor for sale

If you thought there was nothing much left to do with switches, think again, and Elma has bought real-time variable feel to a rotary encoder. Dubbed Cyber One, as a switch it combines a 384 clock/rev rotary encoder and push-button. Then, for user experience, as an experience, its firmware offers various pre-set ‘feels’, including: 0-6 Ncm torque …

Read full article: Force feed-back beings variable feel to rotary and push switch

In the category of ‘things I am glad someone invented’, I now add chemical fixing sleeves. I live in a 60 year old house whose inner skin is a random mixture of what I would call breeze blocks and hollow terracotta blocks (aka ‘pots’, aka clay blocks). The terracotta blocks have all of the hopeless …

Read full article: Fixing into walls made of fragile stuff

I don’t often type my contact details into the web for something free, but in the case of Pickering Relay’s two technical guides it was well worth it as they are packed with information. For example, for portable equipment, you can get relays that can be directly driven by CMOS and only draw a couple …

Read full article: Talking reed relay sense