Imec has its funding from the Flanders government increased to $108 million a year for the next five years.

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AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), known as AWS Microsoft AD, is now available in the EU (London) Region. 

Amazon EC2 I3 instances are the latest generation of Storage Optimized High-I/O instances, designed for the most demanding High I/O workloads, featuring low-latency Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) based SSDs. I3 instances are ideal for workloads like transactional processing systems, relational and NoSQL databases, data warehousing applications, analytics workloads and Elasticsearch workloads. 

Singapore membrane technology company De.mem hopes to expand sales of its membrane technology across Asia after an initial public offering…

 

Veolia has been appointed project manager for the construction of five new water treatment plants in the Greater Matale agricultural region of Sri Lanka…

 

The French company is one of several companies left in the running after a second round of bidding.

 

Now operating as U.S. Submergent Technologies.

 

Toshiba is sampling 64-layer 3-bit-per cell 512Gbit 3D NAND. Mass production is scheduled for H2. In April Toshiba plans to sample a  1Tbyte product which stacks 16 512Gbit die in a package. For the 512Gbit device, Toshiba deployed a 64-layer stacking process to realize a 65% larger capacity per unit chip size than the 48-layer 256Gbit …

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In a world of fake news, lying politicians and a biased mainstream media it is more and more important to be able to tell truth from falsehood. The only person we can trust is ourselves. The only judgment on which we can rely is our own judgment. Where there are few trustworthy sources of information …

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Hydronium-ion batteries show promise for sustainable high-power energy storage, according to scientists at Oregon State University, which claims to have developed the world’s first battery to use only hydronium (H3O+) ions as the charge carrier. The hydronium ions are reversibly stored in an electrode made from the organic crystalline solid perylenetetracarboxylic dianhydridem (PTCDA). Dilute sulphuric acid is the electrolyte. …

Read full article: Hydronium-ion battery mooted for grid storage