French engineering firm Eiffage Genie Civil in consortium with Tedagua of Spain has won a contract to build a desalination plant in Djibouti, east Africa.

Suez has won a €6 million contract to supply desalinated water for 11 offshore oil rigs owned by Petrobras, Brazil’s majority state-owned oil company.

Bahrain Petroleum Company has installed mobile technology from GE Water at Awali refinery to produce high-purity boiler feedwater.

Sony is sampling two new image sensors which are the first to employ Sony’s 3rd gen CMOS Global Shutter Mode.

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Streetlight remote management firm InteliLight has used Swiss company U-blox’s Sara-N2 series of  narrowband IoT (NB‑IoT) modules to control a connected smart streelight system in Romania. InteliLight used Flashnet’s NB‑IoT connected smart street lighting control system. A pilot project is already deployed on the OTE (Telekom) network in Patras, Greece. Having identified NB‑IoT as strategically important, …

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148 letters and documents belonging to Alan Turing have been found at Manchester University. They are dated between 1949 and 1954 – the year he died. Here is an amusing correspondence with the editor of the magazine CHESS:   In view of the rather caustic comment from the editor asking Turing “what you really claim for …

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Semiconductor design house S3 Semiconductors has announced a new strategy to focus on supplying chips for industrial and communications OEMs as well as designing them.

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Connectors specialist Huber+Suhner has expanded its MXP series of multicoax connectors with a version that can handle up to 50Ghz.

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Check out the Stuxnet throw or the 2004 MYDOOM virus scarf, turning binary patterns and codes into material designs.

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On my single sided pcb, I ended up with my SOT-23 mosfet gate and source connections swapped. Having checked the footprint is correct, by replacing the SOT-23 n-channel mosfet foorprint (Ao3404A) with some known SOT-23 npn transistors – MMBTA42 and BCX70 – where the base and emitters ended up swapped. So my only conclusion, is …

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