Pilot-scale water treatment technologies and processes for inland desal will utilize Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamogordo, NM, for pilot testing.

Solution efficiently removes 99 percent of contaminants from industrial wastewater, producing water suitable for discharge or reuse.

The contract includes ongoing service checks, calibrations, and spare parts replacement.

Commission will also consider a resolution approving recovery of $2.9M in drought costs from 2014 and 2015; Update to Travis Air Force Base water service contract status.

Company strengthens presence in Southwestern US.

Analog Devices has acquired ‘liquid crystal waveguide’ solid-state laser steering technology from Vescent Photonics. “Vescent’s innovative non-mechanical beam steering technology enables more robust integrated lidar systems that overcome many of the major drawbacks associated with today’s mechanical offerings,” said ADI, which intends to apply scanning lidar to self-driving cars. While ADI is not yet saying …

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There was once a Brit whose name became a by-word for destructive pre-announcements. He wrote a dozen books and founded a publishing company before launching himself on the computer market. In 1982 he was selling 10,000 computers a month, had sales of $82 million and employed over 1,000 people. The following year he talked publicly …

Read full article: Fable: The Guy Who Should Have Kept His Trap Shut

It was Kryptowire of Virginia that discovered that some Android phones included stealth software that secretly sent personal information back to servers every three days, or sometimes daily. Amazon was amongst the companies selling he phones, although there is no suggestion it knew about the spying. “These devices actively transmitted user and device information including the full-body …

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According to the Nikkei Asian Review, Apple has asked Foxconn and Pegatron to look at ways to assemble iPhones in the USA. Apparently Pegatron declined to get involved citing cost issues, but Foxconn, although expressing concern about costs, said it would produce a study. This has happened before. Flextronics built a Mac Pro production line …

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The smartphone market is always in flux. Motorola, Nokia, Blackberry, Apple and Samsung have led it at different times but now it’s changing again. According to Gartner, the Apple-Samsung duopoly is failing fast. Together they now account for under a third of sales when they used to account for half. Samsung is now down to …

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