A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for November 28, 2016.

New equipment will help KW Resort Utilities Corp. meet future capacity and nutrient removal requirements in a fragile marine environment.

WRF has appointed John Albert to Chief Research Officer.

Today I resolved to get to grips with the government funding of science and asked my Permanent Secretary to fix up a meeting with the top boffins. “Which boffins, Secretary of State?” asks the PS. “The ones who run R&D.” I reply. “Well, there’s the EPSRC, ESRC, NERC, BBSRC, STFC, AHRC and MRC, Secretary of …

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Steve Rawlins, CEO, Anglia Components tells Electronics Weekly that the market remains buoyant and firms are taking a sensible and responsible approach to uncertainties about Brexit

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Rohm Semiconductor has developed an evaluation kit for motor driver devices which is designed as a ‘shield’ to plug directly into the Arduino open source board. There different versions of the kit for the supplier’s various stepper motor driver ICs– from standard, micro step, low voltage to high voltage. It covers supply voltages from 8V to 42V, enables up to 2.5A per …

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Researchers at Cambridge University and China’s Jiangnan University have found a way to deposit graphene-based inks onto cotton to produce electrically conductive textile.

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In Q3, 91% of the worldwide profit from smartphone sales was made by Apple, reports Strategy Analytics. Total smartphone operating profit in Q3 was $9.4 billion. Apple had $8.6 billion of that with the second, third and fourth most profitable companies, Huawei, Oppo and Vivo each making a profit of $200 million representing 2% of …

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The winners of the first “Make with Ada” embedded programming competition are revealed. For projects implemented on ARM Cortex M or R processors, it’s showcasing the use of Ada.

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The University of Sussex has proposed a route to a practical quantum computer, and has just demonstrated the core ingredient – a two-qubit quantum gate. See Leti CMOS quantum transistor ‘Practical’ is an important word here, according to Sussex professor of quantum technologies Winfried Hensinger, as while other quantum computer designs might in theory be …

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