Israeli wastewater treatment company Emefcy has secured a second project in Ethiopia…

 

The driverless thing seems to be eluding a lot of people. Google and Apple reportedly have dropped plans to develop driverless cars in favour of developing licenseable driverless technology. Ford says it will put $1 billion over the next five years into driverless car developer Argo AI a company founded late last year in which …

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Whenever I meet my old mates from the industry I’ve noticed that the subject of Honours always crops up, Ed confides to his diary. It’s always done in a jokey, casual way as though they think it funny that I could have this power of patronage, but underneath I detect calculation – they really want …

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ARM had Q4 revenues of £402 million compared to £266 million for Q3. Licensing revenue was £169 million, royalty revenue was £210 million and software and services revenue was £23 million. EBITDA was £234 million. The UK staffing level was 1853 in Q4 up from 1770 in Q3. When SoftBank bought ARM last June it …

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Thanks to MWS , who kicked off this whole idea, and to the 16 people who supported it, our petition to parliament to Enable UK Roaming has now been approved by the government’s petitions team. Here is the link to our petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/182306 This is the email from the government Petitions Team saying that the …

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Bids for a 20% stake in Toshiba’s chip business range from $1.8 billion to $3.6 billion, reports Reuters. Bidders are said to be Hynix, Micron, Foxconn, Tsinghua, Western Digital and Bain. Hynix is said to have offered $2.6  billion for the stake. Toshiba says that it will not decide who gets the stake based solely …

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Globalfoundries says it is expanding capacity and investing in new processes at its US, German, Chengdu China and Singapore fabs.

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A German research team has explored the technological basis for reducing the energy losses in power grids and electric devices by more than half  by using DC instead of AC. Five project partners, DC allows for smaller power losses when compared to the alternating current (AC) used today. The five project partners from industry and …

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Nvidia’s Q4 revenues were up 55% from Q42015 and up 8% from Q32016 at $2.17 billion. Net profit was $655 million.

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German researchers conclude that using DC instead of AC in the power grid would save half the current energy loss.

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