Padre Dam, Helix, El Cajon and the County to develop new reliable, locally-controlled, drought proof drinking water supply.

The newly added 12 million gallons per day is enough water to supply 53,000 households.

Spin Transfer Technologies, the developer of Orthogonal Spin Transfer Magneto-Resistive Random Access Memory technology (OST-MRAM), is sampling fully functional ST-MRAM devices.

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Harvard scientists Professor Isaac Silvera and Ranga Dias have made metallic hydrogen – a material which could have many applications including room temperature superconductors.

Read full article: Harvard scientists make metallic hydrogen

Toshiba has announced the spin-off of its memory business. Market watcher DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, believes there are advantages in the long run that will benefit the Toshiba-Western Digital alliance in the forms of expansion in NAND flash production capacity and increased efficiency in storage product development. “Toshiba wants to put its memory business in a more stable …

Read full article: Toshiba separates memory for more stability

I worked from home yesterday and had trouble accessing the mighty servers of Electronics Weekly. So I fired up a Raspberry Pi 3 and…     ….I still couldn’t connect with the servers. But I could do all the usual office-type tasks at full speed and with out any inconvenience. Web-browsing was slightly slow, maybe …

Read full article: Practical Raspberry Pi

Swedish researchers have made ‘muscles’ by coating natural fibres with electro-active polymers.

Read full article: Electro-‘muscles’ made from natural fibres

At a board meeting earlier today, Toshiba approved the proposed spin-out of its chip division and said that an IPO is one option for the unit.

Read full article: Toshiba mulls chip IPO

Vishay introduces the first device in its fourth generation of 600V E Series power mosfets, aimed at telecom, industrial, and enterprise power supplies.

Read full article: Fourth generation super-junction mosfet from Vishay

Prime Minister Theresa May singled out robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in her blueprint for a ‘modern’ industrial strategy for the UK.

Read full article: UK robotics head welcomes May’s industrial blueprint