The Kentucky Public Service Commission has granted Kentucky American Water a rate adjustment for water bills that will increase its annual revenue by $6.5 million.

Parsons was the design-builder for the WPCP project and the designer and construction manager for the force main project.

NHDES and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics approve bid process to extend Pennichuck water line to Litchfield residents.

NXP’s MRF1K50H is a 1,500W LDMOS transistor, following on from the 1,250W MRFE6VP61K25H. 1.5kW continuous wave is available at 50V, and the device works over 1.8–500MHz. The transistor is characterised from 30-50V. “It operates up to 500MHz for applications from laser and plasma sources to particle accelerators, industrial welding machines, radio and VHF TV broadcast transmitters, and …

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Andela, the African software development company, has received $24 million from Mark Zuckerberg’s investment vehicle Chan Zuckerberg. The two year-old Andela, based in Nairobi and Nigeria, trains people to code and then puts them on contracts with international customers to write software for them. It has 200 developers. Andela’s coders are said to rank in …

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I salute the ambition of this one, a Raspberry Pi chess system to control the movement of pieces on the board.

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Gartner and IC Insights have looked at the foundry industry which grows whatever happens to the rest of the semiconductor industry: The IC Insights view: The Gartner view:

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Adesto Technologies, the CBRAM developer, has teamed with board supplier Embedded Masters to help developers of Adesto-based products get products to market faster. Adesto and Embedded Masters wrote and tested native low‐level Flash firmware drivers and application programming interface (API) software routines for a range of Adesto memory IC breakout boards with the Silicon Labs …

Read full article: Adesto and Embedded Masters link for IoT

Nano Dimension, the Israeli 3D printer specialist, has supplied the first DragonFly 2020 system designated for 3D circuitry and PCBs to a leading defense company in Israel. To date, Nano Dimension has proven its capabilities of printing multilayer electric circuits in lab conditions. With the first supply of the DragonFly 2020 system for testing, Nano …

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After Uber announced it would launch driverless taxis in Pittsburgh by the end of the year, a start-up called nuTonomy has said has launched a driverless taxi service in Singapore. The only snag is that the driverless taxis require both a computer-watcher and a back-up driver. The Lidar-equipped cars will be provided by Renault and …

Read full article: nuTonomy beats Uber to self-driving taxis