According to a review of the state’s data by FluksAqua, the State of Texas loses a stunning 156,000+ Olympic-sized swimming pools of drinkable water every year at a cost of nearly $400 million.

Micron is sampling a 32-layer 32GB 3D NAND chip with a 60.217mm2 die size for mobile applications. It first into a 9 x 9mm PoP package or 8.5 x 11mm MCP. The chip conforms to the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.1 standard which delivers, says Micron, “up to 33% higher bandwidth versus the e.MMC 5.1 …

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It’s very important for my role as toll-collector – I mean gatekeeper – to incoming tech companies that I don’t get any interference from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Ed confides to his diary. If the tech companies know there’s another route to get cushy conditions to setting up operations …

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The EPA has issued a legal order requiring the Village of Tarrytown to deliver consumer notices and conduct public education activities for individuals and organizations using the village’s water supply.

Jack Gifford, CEO of Intersil and founding CEO of Maxim, was one of the IC industry’s outstanding leaders. He inspired the trust of the industry’s greatest engineers, Bob Widlar refused to report to anyone else when at Fairchild, and Gifford reserved especial esteem for Fairchild co-founder Jean Hoerni. “Imagine the guy who started five companies …

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With a homemade radio costing £30 to make, many of VW’s cars can be remotely unlocked, say researchers from Birmingham University and Kasper & Oswald in a paper to be delivered today at a cyber security conference in Austin Texas VW cars made between 1995 and 2016 are vulnerable including Skodas, Seats and Udis. Hackers …

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While Q2 sales of Apple phones were up in the US and EU, they were down in down in China, according to Worldpanel ComTech.

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Atom is on the way back. It seems that the Intel Atom processor which was dropped by Intel when it decided to exit mobile will be back with a design optimised for drones, IoT, VR headsets, cameras and autonomous cars. The announcement is expected next week at IDF. Intel says the new Atoms will work …

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China’s handset vendors shipped 44% of the global smartphone volume in Q2, reports Digitimes Research. The top ten vendors with their percentages of the total China-based volume were:

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Cypress has appointed a CEO four months after founding CEO T.J. Rodgers announced his retirement in April. The new CEO is Hassane El-Khoury

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