SUEZ has completed the acquisition of former GE Water & Process Technologies for €3.2 billion enterprise value in an all‐cash transaction…

I am seething, and slightly panicking. Google has deleted all my phone contacts, through no fault of mine. The short version Connected my phone to playstore to get a security update Un-announced, google put an ‘account’ on my phone I deleted the account, it deleten my existing contacts. The longer version I have an Motorola …

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A Hard Brexit leading to the UK trading with the EU under WTO rules would cost £17 billion a year, say forecasters.

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China may have its first EUV machine installed by 2019, reports Digitimes. According to Young-Sun Kim, country manager for ASML, several China foundries are talking to ASML about buying EUV machines to use for the 7nm node. Kim said that ASML did not prioritise customers and the China foundries will be treated the same way …

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Iot? How about IoL? The Internet of Lego! I thought I should take a look at the Pi-powered (among other things) alternative to Internet of Things.

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RFID technology enables innovation in terms of object-specific data collection and storage

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Morris Chang is 86 and has steered TSMC from start-up to $185 billion market cap in 30 years.

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The LTM8065 is a power module step-down regulator with up to 40V input voltage, which can safely operate from unregulated or fluctuating 12V to 36V input supplies in noisy environments.

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Murata has introduced the LQW15DN series of inductors for use in communication devices such as smartphones. Their 1005 size (1.0 × 0.5 mm) makes them the world’s smallest inductor at an inductance rating of 15 microH, claims Murata. Inductors for communications devices such as smartphones require miniaturization of the components for multifunctionality and multimodality as well …

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The key to Sir James Dyson’s electric car could be the battery technology he acquired with his $90 million acquisition of Sakti3 in 2015. Sakti3 was founded in 2012 by Michigan University professor Anne Marie Sastry, pictured with President Barack Obama at a White House Demo Day for entrepreneurs. Sakti3 was backed by GMVentures and …

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