ON has received the US FTC’s blessing to proceed with its $2.4 billion takeover of Fairchild on condition that it sells off the Ignition IGBT business.

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It is, of course, August when the news gets silly and even the idea of a self-driving truck seems a good one. For me, stuck behind a truck at 80mph with another up my bum and blocked in by a third is horrible enough. The knowledge that one or other or all three has no …

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61 years ago a company produced an iconic five transistor radio. The company founder and boss won an order for 100,000 of the radios from the US company Bulova. But Bulova wanted their own name on the radio. “Whoever heard of you?” Bulova’s president told the radio company boss, “our brand has a world reputation …

Read full article: Fable: The Boss Who Believed In Himself

As of today, high-resolution satellite imagery from the SpaceNet corpus is available as an AWS Public Data Set. The SpaceNet corpus includes approximately 1,900 square kilometers full-resolution 50cm imagery collected from DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 commercial satellite and includes 8-band multispectral data. The dataset also includes 220,594 building footprints derived from this imagery which can be used as training data for machine learning. The first Area of Interest (AOI) to released is of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and more AOIs will be made available in the future.

Chemicals company LANXESS will double the production capacity of its reverse osmosis manufacturing site in Bitterfeld to meet demand…

Cosmetic companies should be banned from using plastic microbeads in bathroom products because of the marine pollution they are causing, the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee has demanded…

Poseidon Water is adjusting its strategy for gaining permits for Huntington Beach desalination plant, as it moves to keep the project running to schedule.

NHDES and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics approve bid process to extend Pennichuck water line to Litchfield residents.

Parsons was the design-builder for the WPCP project and the designer and construction manager for the force main project.

The Kentucky Public Service Commission has granted Kentucky American Water a rate adjustment for water bills that will increase its annual revenue by $6.5 million.