Water reuse in agriculture is gaining ground in the USA as farmers and
water technologists seek to overcome the domestic water supply
shortages caused by drought. The latest figures from the US Bureau of
Reclamation show that water levels at Lake Mead, Nevada, the largest
reservoir by capacity in the USA, hit a record low of 1,074 feet in
March.

The ambitious Red Sea to Dead Sea (RSDS) desalination project that aims
to provide water to Israel, Jordan, and Palestine, has agreed investments
of $450 million.

Oracle’s Primavera is a suite of cloud-based and on-premises enterprise project portfolio management (EPPM) solutions that project and program management teams and executive stakeholders from many asset-intensive industries count on to help improve strategy execution, operations, and financial performance.

This new partnership is the first of its kind in the nation.

MWRD’s new nutrient recovery facility is an example of how progressive technology can be implemented to transform a wastewater treatment facility into a resource recovery center.

Imec, Holst Centre and Barco Silex are to collaborate to implement data security into sensors for wearables and IoT. Trust is key for a broad adoption. The smart society can only become a reality when the sensor technology is trusted by their users and the privacy of the users’ data is guaranteed at all time. …

ITF2016: Imec, Barco Silex seek IoT security

Imec and its partner Solliance, presented today the first-ever semi-transparent perovskite PV-module, achieving power conversion efficiencies up to 12%. The technology enables for semi- transparent PV-windows which are a key towards Zero-Energy Buildings. Moreover, combining these semitransparent perovskite modules with Si solar cells, an unprecedented 20.2% in power conversion efficiency for a perovskite/Si stacked solar …

ITF2016: Imec and Solliance present first semi-transparent perovskite PV-module

The semiconductor learning curve is one of the most perfect curves ever devised, Mentor CEO Wally Rhines told this week’s ITF2016 in Brussels, and even if Moore’s Law ends, as it must one day, the learning curve will live on. Adjusted for inflation, the curve has been consistent for 40 years, said Rhines, and the …

ITF2016: Learning curve goes on when Moore’s Law ends

GlobalFoundries is aiming to take industry process technology leadership at the 7nm node. One step in that direction is a 60% shrink in the 14nm to 7nm transition, Gary Patton, the company’s CTO and svp for R&D, told EW. Asked by Electronics Weekly how this was achieved, Patton replied: “We’re shrinking the pitches pretty aggressively.” …

ITF2016: GlobalFoundries goes for process leadership

The Royal Society is commissioning a study to understand the challenges faced by teachers delivering computing and computer science and share best practice which can be adopted more widely. Professor Stephen Furber (right), from the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, will lead the research study which is part of a wider  …

Teaching of computing in schools faces big changes