A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for August 1, 2016. 

We’re talking Plumduino, the Juno spacecraft, model rocket cars, Star Trek communicators, an Arduino Project Handbook and a Raspberry Pi-based anti-drone system.

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Sony’s semiconductor operation saw sales sink 23% y-o-y to $1.4 billion in the quarter to the end of June affected by earthquakes and lack of demand. The operation made an operating loss of $423 million. Earthquakes cost Sony $66 million last year of which about $12 million is recoverable on insurance. PS4 sales had an …

Read full article: Sony sensor sales down but PS4 sparkles

Pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Alphabet subsidiary Verily Life Sciences (was Google Life Sciences) are forming a bioelectronics research, development and commercialise firm at GSK’s HQ in Stevenage (right). They will invest up to £540m over seven years, subject to completion of various milestones. To be called Galvani Bioelectronics, and to be headquartered in at an existing GSK …

Read full article: Google, GSK start £500m bioelectronic firm in UK

VC firms tend to project a po-faced public image – possibly to enhance an aura of infallibility – so it’s refreshing to see VCs take the piss out of themselves. Bessemer Venture Partners, one of America’s oldest VC firms, tells Business Insider the reasons it rejected some of the biggest funding opportunities of the last …

Read full article: The VC Firm Which Laughs At Itself

The organisers of this year’s National Coding Week are asking for help. “With less than 50 days to go, organisers are calling on people in the technology industry and beyond to get involved with the initiative once again to help prove that anyone, regardless of age or gender, can learn to code,” said the team. The …

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FOLLOWING the recent successful visit to Moscow by a 12-man delegation representing seven leading British manufacturers, another delegation—including, it is hoped, representatives of the electronics industry—is to visit Russia in May. So, 55 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 11th 1961 (it was a story which was to have very …

Read full article: Greville Wynne Arranges Russky Trips

A most extraordinary chap comes in today dressed in a t-shirt, cargo shorts and sneakers, Ed tells his diary, the civil servants looked most put out. I made a big fuss of him to show the civil servants that I’m a modern man, a man of the people (though a Baron) and someone (unlike them) …

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Michigan A.G. Bill Schuette issued the charges this morning in district court, bringing the total charged in the crisis to nine.

Infineon has volume availability of thyristor/diode modules in solder bond technology with a 50 mm module and plans to launch additional module types with blocking voltages of 1800 V and 2200 V in 2017. Solder bond modules are for applications where the high robustness of pressure contact technology is not necessarily a must. Typical applications …

Read full article: Infineon launches 50mm solder bond thyristor/diode modules