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State contracts technology for water sampling in over 700 public schools.

A transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for May 30, 2017.

The Infineon-led, 26-partner, EU-backed  eRamp power electronics project ends this week. “The eRamp results have created the prerequisites for keeping the production of power electronics in Europe competitive,” says project co-ordinator  Dr. Oliver Pyper, of Infineon, “power electronics guarantee an ever more efficient generation, transmission, and use of electric energy. And it is in this …

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The Federal Communications Commission’s recently granted permission for the American Telephone and Telegraph Co to experiment with its communications satellite programme is more of a reprieve than an endorsement of the project. It is time-limited to expire on January 1 1962. So, 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of February 1st …

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A scheme to attract technologically talented immigrants has started to take off. 260 visas for exceptionally talented technologists were issued in the fiscal year to April 6th. The visas allow the holder to stay in the UK for five years and then apply to settle here if they want to. In the previous FY less …

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Mystery still surrounds the BA web-site outage with everyone asking why BA didn’t have a back-up system or a back-up system which worked. The BA explanation of a power surge knocking out the BA network has not answered the question of why it took so long to fix it. The unions point to the sacking …

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ARM has brought out the first cores based on its DynamIQ micro-architecture and a new version of its Mali GPU core. The CPU cores, which use big.LITTLE and TrustZone technology, are designated Cortex A-75 and A-55. They have dedicated instructions for AI which are intended to boost AI performance by 50x in the next 3-5 …

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Flex Logix, the eFPGA IP specialist, has completed design of its second-generation high-performance IP core for TSMC 16FF+ and 16FFC process Enabling embedded FPGA arrays greater than 100,000 LUTs. “Data centers require reconfigurable hardware protocols for networking, storage and security, and therefore switches, NICs and other networking chips need very high-performance reprogrammability,” says Geoff Tate, …

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Dubai has been announced as the bid winner for the International Desalination Association’s World Congress 2019…