A transcript of the WaterWorld weekly Newscast for May 1, 2017.

 

Monies will protect groundwater from underground injection or disposal wells.

 

The $2.5B initiative will provide funding for water and sewer infrastructure improvements across the state.

 

Expanded facility will complement existing facility in Pasadena, Calif.

 

The Frogs have got this graft gig sorted, Ed confides to his diary, I’m an amateur in comparison. Look at this Fillon guy who gets his suits paid for by an industrialist and still gets 20% of the Presidential vote. With Savile Row suits costing £5K these days, that’s worth compromising one’s purity for. We’re …

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I came across this neat 3d printed vice, created by someone called SexyCyborg. What I like about it is that it has no screw thread, and instead uses a pair of folding wedges, plus packing pieces. On top of this, some of the packing pieces have shapes cut from them to aid holding, and the …

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Revenue increased 13% from Q1 2016. Analogue revenue grew 20% and Embedded Processing revenue grew 10% from Q1 2016. “Gross margin of 63% reflected the quality of our product portfolio, as well as the efficiency of our manufacturing strategy, including the benefit of 300mm analogue production,” said TI CEO Rich Templeton, referring to “our opportunistic …

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NXP overtakes Renesas To become the No.1 MCU supplier following its takeover of Freescale which saw its MCU sales grow 116% last year

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The US Navy is has created a rechargeable aqueous zinc battery with performance approaching Li-ion cells. While useful in non-rechargeable applications – it is the basis for ‘alkaline cells’ – zinc electrodes tend to grow dendrites (whiskers) when charged, wrecking the cell. Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have created nickel-zinc batteries with …

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Seven days after he joined Fairchild, Andy Grove got a surprise. On his first Friday he had handed in a report. The following Monday, he received a note saying: “I just read your report on MOS capacitors – very nice work.” It was signed ‘Bob’. “I thought I’d died and gone to heaven,” said Grove.

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