Utility Scottish Water has awarded Xylem a five-year framework services agreement to supply and install submersible and diesel pumps for all of its rental applications across the region…

Gradiant’s philosophy on technology is to take fundamental concepts and develop them into water technologies that speak directly to customers’ experiences in the field.

When the California State Water Board adopted new regulations on seawater desalination plants in 2015, Poseidon, the developer of a proposed 50 million gallons a day (227,000 m3/d) capacity seawater RO plant in Huntington Beach, California, went back to the drawing board on its water intake technology.

The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa will host a demonstration project using Hitachi’s RemixWaterseawater desalination and water reuse integrated system…

Fifteen months into its course, the WAYTOGO FAST EU R&D project for promoting FD-SOI has achieved some significant targets the European Nanoelectronics Forum in Rome today was told. . Boosters for 14 and 28 FD-SOI have been investigated and developed . SOl wafers: +20% nFET loff/leff tradeoff . STRASS technique: +1.6GPa demonstrated (stress level > …

Read full article: NANO16: FD-SOI moves towards 22nm and 14nm

Government plans for new investment in infrastructure and R&D in the Autumn Statement, will be good for the engineering and technology sectors, says the Royal Academy of Engineering. This follows the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s commitment of £2bn per year by 2020 for research and development funding and £1bn for digital infrastructure. Professor Dame Ann Dowling, President of the Royal Academy …

Read full article: Autumn Statement: Match tech investment with skills, says RAE

BBC TV programmes can be downloaded and viewed offline on your Raspberry Pi as high definition .MP4 files. For some time now there has been an open source utility program called get_iplayer which is a set of scripts that allow you to download BBC iPlayer content for offline viewing. Alex Eames from the RasPi.TV blog …

Read full article: Raspberry Pi downloads BBC TV iPlayer content

In a guest post for Gadget Master, the Design Spark blogger Redstone gets smart with Bluetooth 4.2 Low Energy (BLE) – AKA Bluetooth Smart – an increasingly attractive choice for designers.

Read full article: Getting hands-on with Bluetooth 4.2 Low Energy

The EU R&D project CONNECT will develop carbon nanotube and metal-CNT composites for IC interconnect, the Nanoelectronics Forum was told today.

Read full article: NANO16: EU project for CNT interconnect

Europe has the know-how to be the world leader in digital healthcare, Professor Shahid Ali of Salford University told the European Nanoelectronics Forum 2016.

Read full article: NANO16: Europe can be world leader in digital healthcare