Emefcy and RWL Water are proposing a merger to create new global water group Fluence Corporation.

Support for water desalination in California is apparent across every key demographic group in the state. 

Roughly a quarter of the U.S. served by systems in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2015.

 

NACWA, municipal clean water utilities find plenty to support in newly-passed Omnibus spending bill.

 

Company expands in Apple Valley, Minn.; centralizes and upgrades Canadian operations.

 

Newcastle University adds intelligence to a prosthetic hand so that it grips objects automatically, with guidance from built-in camera feed-back.

Read full article: UK prosthetic hand sees, thinks, and grips automatically

The ferocious battle between Apple and Qualcomm over royalty payments may get a new twist with reports from Bloomberg that Qualcomm is to ask the International Trade Commission (ITC) to ban Apple’s phones from import into the USA. Last week Apple stopped paying its sub-contractors royalties owed to,Qualcomm resulting in a possible $500 million hit …

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Responding to President Trump’s call for job-creation in the USA, Apple is to set up a $1 billion fund to promote “advanced manufacturing”. The first investment of the find is to be announced later in May. “A company should have values because a company is a collection of people, and people should have values,” says …

Read full article: Apple to set up $1bn USA manufacturing fund

Qualcomm, China’s Datang Telecom and Jianguang Asset Management (JAC) of Beijing are to combine in a project to develop smartphone chips which cost $10. Last year JAC was a part of consortia which bought NXP’s standards products division and RF power unit. Datang and JAC will hold over 50% of the jv which is to …

Read full article: Datang, JAC, Qualcomm jv to develop $10 smartphone chips

Women returning to work after childbirth have an important role to play in technology industries, says Seoul Semiconductor.

Read full article: LED firm aims to recruit women returning to work after childbirth