Announces additional acreage dedications in the Delaware Basin.

The three-year cooperation agreement has been signed with Beijing Geoenviron Engineering and Technology, Inc.

 

China’s helter-skelter fab-building programme may have hit a glitch, reports Digitimes. UMC’s jv fab in Tainan, called Jin Hua Integrated Circuit, is reported to be on hold. Jin Hua is a jv between UMC and the Fujian local government. GloFo’s $10 billion jv fab in Chengdu – a jv with the Chengdu local government – …

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Stan Boland, former CEO of Element 14 and Icera, is heading up Cambridge AI firm FiveAI which is developing a government-backed driverless car. Along with FiveAI in the driverless car project are Direct Line, Oxford University, TfL and the Transport Research Laboratory. The Departments for Business and Transport have given the group £12.8m to research …

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Toshiba’s fate is to be decided by the Japanese government. KKR, which made a failed bid for Renesas, is now teaming up with Japanese bail-out fund INCJ to make a bid. This would get Japan’s government off the hook of being blamed for Toshiba’s technology leaking to China which is the fear if top-bidder Hon …

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The BeagleBone Black Wireless, the credit-card-sized Linux computer that integrates Wi-Fi and Bluetooth interfaces and I/O for IoT sensors, is available from RS Components. It is a development system which can be used with open-source software platforms such as Debian, Android and Ubuntu. The hardware has both 2.4GHz 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but no Ethernet-10/100 connectivity. …

Read full article: BeagleBone Black wireless node for IoT on sale at RS

The UK government has made a major commitment to the introduction of autonomous vehicles which it says will be on London’s roads in 2019, launching a new type of personal mobility service. The government has awarded funding of £12.8m to a group which includes the University of Oxford, the Transport Research Laboratory and also Transport …

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UK engineers want the government to take more “decisive action” to address the shortage of engineering skills in the workforce.

Read full article: Biggest ever engineering report calls for action on skills in schools

Solar panels could gain from a chemical which produces two electron-hole pairs from each incoming photon. Called heptacene, it has a characteristic called ‘singlet fission‘ which allows this doubling of electron production. BTW, there is no magic here, the pairs have at most half the energy than the best single pair that could be extracted …

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Amber Wireless creates an 11 x 8 x 1.8 mm Bluetooth Smart 4.2 module, offered with or without integrated antenna.

Read full article: Module adds Bluetooth Smart to legacy designs with minimal fuss