New entity becomes one of the largest pressure pipe providers in North America.
Study shows clean drinking water more important to Americans than clean air
Most Americans believe significant investments in water infrastructure are needed to avoid future water crises.
Pulsar’s measurement technology installed in Milwaukee Deep Tunnel System
Devices now being used to successfully monitor flow rates 70 to 120 feet underground.
Water leakage to be targeted in Microsoft-led utility hackathon
Experts from global giant Microsoft will come from around the globe to lead the search for answers on the problem of water leakage…
Singapore’s Marina East desalination plant to be a ‘lush green gem’
Singapore hopes to buck the trend of industrial looking desalination plants and has unveiled a sleek modern design for the Keppel Marina East development…
Samsung overtakes Intel to be No.1
Samsung has overtaken Intel to become the world No.1 semiconductor company. Samsung’s estimated chip revenue for Q2 is $15.1 billion and Intel’s $14.4 billion, according to Nomura. For the full year, forecasts put Samsung’s chip sales at $63.6 billion and Intel’s at $60.5 billion. Intel needed to beat Samsung this year to match TI’s record …
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Silicon Valley combines to fight terrorism
With the Petya ransomware attack sweeping the world it is not before time that Silicon Valkey is combining to fight terrorism. Silicon Valley’s response is to take on terrorism with The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism formed by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft. The companies have been criticised by the US, UK and French governments …
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Toshiba sues Western Digital
Toshiba has sued Western Digital in the Tokyo District court asking for $1 billion in damages and trying to stop WD from interfering in the sale of its chip business. Toshiba also accuses WD of improperly obtaining Toshiba’s private information. Previously WD put the dispute over Toshiba’s auction process to arbitration and sued Toshiba in …
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Fujitsu Labs increase server density
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a virtual machine control technology that improves server rack mounting density for each datacenter rack. Currently, in datacenters, the number of servers mounted to a rack is limited by the total rated electrical power of the servers, which must be less than the power supply of the rack. However, often times, …
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Lattice offers FPGA reference design for machine learning
Lattice Semiconductor has created FPGA reference designs that support LoRa communications, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) security, signal aggregation and machine learning. The reference design is based on the firm’s iCE40 UltraPlus FPGAs which are designed for low power and small form-factor. Target applications for the reference designs include: Machine Learning / On-device Artificial Intelligence – …
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