Mississauga-based contractor specializing in groundwater management expands to help developers navigate the stringent new approval process.

Results have started emerging from the five desalination trials in Ghantoot, Abu Dhabi which are now either finished or reaching their end…

 

Despite a gathering impression that wearables are tanking, the wearables market grew 16.9% in 4Q16, says IDC, with a record 33.9 million units shipped in Q4.

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Digital, digital, digital all is digital, Ed ruminates in his diary, we’ve had HMG’s digital strategy announcement this week – full of digital initiatives, digital partnerships, digital training, digital mentoring and digital digitising and I think I’m the only person in the Cabinet who has a clue what digital means. HMG appears to be in …

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Well, I wracked my brains over the weekend to solve the Kelvin water drop mystery. I got as far as assuming a small starting asymmetry, and could see that electrostatic induction was in the equation, but couldn’t work out how electrons were getting in and out of the water drops – the mystery-setting video that …

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Can self-driving cars be achieved without LIDAR and precision mapping? Many say no, but a Hungarian start-up called AImotive thinks it can.

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TSMC will outgrow the semiconductor industry again this year according to chairman Morris Chang, reports Digitimes. In pre-2000 days, when the semiconductor industry typically grew 15-16% annually, TSMC would usually grow 30-40% a year, said Chang. Nowadays, when the industry grows at 4-5% a year, TSMC grows 5-10% a year, said Chang. TSMC’s revenue grew …

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One of the smallest wireless ICs for Bluetooth v4.2 low energy enabled designs is available from Swiss firm EM Microelectronic.

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The latest PIC18F microcontrollers from Microchip now add vectored interrupts for fast processing to its range of devices with core independent peripherals.

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The Raspberry Pi foundation launches the Raspberry Pi Zero W, a wireless-enabled version of the 65 x 30mm Zero launched in 2015.

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