The Government of Canada and Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation collaborate to provide drinking water for communities.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for August 14, 2017.

Five-year contract to support EPA’s Office of Water.

HHS awards $3.2M to Michigan State University to establish program.

Nvidia has reported Q2 revenue of $2.23bn up 56% from Q2 2016 and up 15% from Q1. Operating profit was $688 million up 24% on Q1’s  $554 million and up 117% on the $317 million of Q2 a year ago. For the current quarter it forecasts revenue of $2.35 billion “Adoption of Nvidia GPU computing is …

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One of the fastest growing start-ups in the world is five year-old Chinese news aggregator Toutiao which has grown its valuation 40x in three years, In a 2014 funding round it was valued at $500 million, last year it raised $1 billion at a valuation of $11 billion and now it is reported by Reuters …

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Taiwan aims to create 30,000 tech start-ups in the next three years, reports Digitimes. Taiwan’s Industrial Innovation and Transformation Fund has earmarked $3.3 billion for startups and a national investment company with a fund of $330 million opens its doors this month to high tech entrepreneurs wanting investment. The intention is to make direct investments …

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Before Hon Hai bought it last year, Sharp was operating like the son of a rich family says Sharp’s president Tai Jeng-wu (pictured). The company has just reported its first FY operating profit for three years. Tai has been scathing about Sharp’s lax cost controls before Hon Hai bought it. Since becoming president, Tai he …

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Toshiba’s plan to sell its memory unit to a Bain/INCJ/Hynix consortium for $19 billion ran into trouble because the consortium wants to pay in instalments and Toshiba wants the money up front, reports Bloomberg. This has prompted last week’s move to re-open talks with Western Digital and Hon Hai about selling the business to them. …

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Related to being powered by a super capacitor, I also need to get my ATtiny to go to sleep when not processing anything. And that involves setting pins to ‘interrupt-on-change’ and getting the chip to ‘wake-on-interrupt’ – all stuff I could have done in assembler, but how to do in Arduino-speak. Big Dan rides to …

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