Siemens will make these energy and water conservation measures at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Ashland and the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Lexington.
Oregon’s Clean Water Service employs Innovyze technology to support capital improvements
Real-time sewer network modeling and analytics-driven risk-based asset management software to improve business planning, infrastructure sustainability and resiliency.
Californian Delusion
There’s something a bit repetitive about Intel and telecoms. At the turn of the century it spent $10 billion buying up telecoms companies in an attempt to get into the market. It failed to have much impact. Now, it seems, it has spent another $10 billion trying to get into wireless telecoms and has failed …
Fable: The CEO Who Started Late
Silicon Valley start-ups are a young man’s game (unless you’re a VC) but one famous company founder started his first company at the ripe old age of 61. The company was based on an entirely new semiconductor product category which had been invented by a Zilog engineer while moonlighting at LSI Logic. He grew the …
Raspberry Pi gets its audio tube amp Hat on
The 503HTA Hybrid Tube Amp, which is designed for driving audio on the Raspberry Pi, is launching on Kickstarter.
Virtual reality treats paranoia
Virtual reality can help treat severe paranoia by allowing people to face situations that they fear, according to the University of Oxford. Simulations allowed patients to learn that situations they feared, such as a crowded lift, were actually safe. “But being in a situation they fear is very difficult for many patients, since it causes …
Oh the joys of translation
Mike Meakin spotted this excellent phrase in the instructions for a Chinese RF module: “When power supply voltage is greater than 4.5 V , you need concatenating 1N4007 diode to avoid module built-in LDO got fever”
IBM puts quantum computer on-line
IBM has made a quantum computer available on the internet for anyone to run algorithms on. Called IBM Quantum Experience, the five qubit machine is on a single cryogenic chip at the TJ Watson Research Center in New York. “This moment represents the birth of quantum cloud computing. By giving hands-on access to IBM’s experimental …
Infineon raises SiC MOSfets to new level
Infineon will sample 1200V CoolSiC MOSFETs in the second half with volume production next year. The devices “raise the benefits available from SiC technology to a new level, which has never before been possible,” says Dr. Helmut Gassel, President of Infineon’s Industrial Power Control Division. Using SiC MOSFETs allows conversion schemes to operate at triple …
Rechargeable lithium air batteries get closer
Rechargeable lithium air batteries could be commercialised by a discovery at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Forschungszentrum Jülich involving highly reactive singlet oxygen, which is released when the batteries are charged. Currently the batteries can only manage a few recharging cycles. “One of the most promising approaches is the lithium air battery in …