The UAE’s Federal Electricity and Water Authority (FEWA) is to increase capacity of Ghalilah desalination plant, reports the country’s official news agency WAM.

Jacobs Engineering Group has acquired CH2M for $2.85 billion creating a global engineering firm of $15 billion in revenue.

FEWA plans to bolster its seawater reverse osmosis desalination arsenal by building new plants and expanding existing capacity…

Contracts to providing safe, clean drinking water worth $4.8 million.

The $303 million plan recently received approval from the EPA.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Intended Use Plan includes an award of $20.66 million from EPA’s FY 2017 Clean Water State Revolving Fund.

The IC market will grow 16% in 2017 due to exceptional growth in the DRAM and NAND flash memory markets, says IC Insights. The DRAM market is now forecast to grow 55% and the NAND flash market is now expected to rise 35% this year—in both cases, almost entirely due to fast-rising prices rather than …

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As suspected, Amazon’s Alexa device is a way for remote listeners to eavesdrop on conversations. The security company MWR has found a way to instal malware on an Alexa to turn it into a wiretapping device. “On the base of the Amazon Echo there are 18 pads you can easily access used for debugging the …

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A controversial China-backed private equity company is said to be pondering a bid for Imagination.

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