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The University of Bahrain has signed memorandums of understanding with two UK universities to co-operate on research into desalination and water reuse technologies.

Leak sent dirty water into the Long Island Railroad Concourse Wednesday morning.

 

Bonsai AI, the Berkeley, California- based AI initiative, has introduced the Bonsai Early Access Program. Through this programme, Bonsai will engage enterprises across industries such as robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics and energy to jointly design, build and deploy AI models using the Bonsai Platform. Bonsai has also raised another $7.6 million from Microsoft Ventures, …

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Peugeot has got together with driverless car start-up nuTonomy to test driverless cars in Singapore. Four year-old nuTonomy was founded by MIT and McKinsey people. Last year it trialled driverless taxi services in Singapore. nuTonomy raised a $3.6 million seed round in January 2016. Ford chairman Bill Ford’s Fontinalis Partners fund participated in the round. …

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Analog Devices has launched  a 13.6 GHz  wideband synthesizer with integrated VCO which targets applications such as wireless infrastructure, microwave point-to-point links, electronic test and measurement, and satellite terminals. A complementary synthesizer product, the ADF4356, operates to 6.8 GHz and is comparable in performance. The ADF5356 generates RF outputs from 53.125 MHz to 13.6 GHz …

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Ultrahaptics, the touch-less haptics specialist, has completed a series B round of Investment of $23 million. The new funding comes from existing shareholders, IP Group plc and Woodford Investment Management, as well as new investors, including Cornes and Dolby Family Ventures. “We are a global business and the range of investors now reflects this more …

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French IC reverse-engineering and security specialist, Texplained, is to publish a range of detailed IC reports and images with analysis which evaluates the security characteristics of all the major ICs on the market. “Our new IC reports will be game changers in the semiconductor industry,” says Texplained CEO Clarisse Ginet (pictured), “they will give semiconductor designers, …

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Q1 smartphone sales were up 4.3% on Q1 2016, says IDC. 347.4 million units were shipped. China-based OEMs, including Huawei, Oppo and Vivo drove the growth. Samsung was the leader in Q1 unit shipments with 79.2 million smartphones shipped. Apple was flat shipping 51.6 million units. Huawei was No.1 in China growing 21.7% as shipments …

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The Semiconductor Rankings are set to get boring. Back in the 1980s, when Samsung started to get serious about the chip business, the company’s founder, Lee Byung-chul, said it was his intention to make Samsung the world’s No.1 semiconductor company and then hold that position for the succeeding 100 years. Earlier this week, IC Insights …

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