Calgary’s Bonnybrook Wastewater Treatment Plant has installed the largest Advanced Grit Management® system ever supplied worldwide by Hydro International.
European Commission aims Android antitrust charges at Google
The European Commission has formally charged Google with breaking competition rules over its Android mobile operating system. It is accused of abusing it’s dominant position in Android, forcing manufacturers to favour its own revenue streams. You can read the full EU statement online: “A competitive mobile Internet sector is increasingly important for consumers and businesses in …
European Commission aims Android antitrust charges at Google
Immensely Optimistic Thinking
The best crack on the opening day of the GSA Executive Forum yesterday was Aart de Geus’ reference to ‘Immensely Optimistic Thinking’ a.k.a. the IoT. de Geus, founder and Co-CEO of Synopsys, pointed out that the typical IoT products used tiny amounts of silicon and said “it is difficult to see how it will fill …
Cyclists cheat with electric motors
I was amazed and horrified when I heard racing cyclists have been cheating by using electric motors to boost their performance. My first thought was, where can you hide an electric motor on a racing bicycle? I was prepared to be technologically amazed – I thought maybe someone had fitted the whole motor into a bicycle bottom …
China Lacks Basic Requirement For IC Industry
China is looking for self-sufficiency in ICs but lacks a fundamental pre-requisite for growing a chip industry. “China is not encouraging freedom of thought and that’s something you need if you want innovation,” Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, told this week’s GSA European Executive Forum in Munich. China has a $23 billion government fund …
Your space mission: Design a logo for NASA to represent In-Space Manufacturing
“A small version of the graphic will be placed in the top corner of all presentation materials developed by the project.”
Your space mission: Design a logo for NASA to represent In-Space Manufacturing
Transparent movement sensor printed into clothing
In what looks like a breakthrough in wearable technology Fraunhofer ISC in Germany has developed a transparent sensor material which can be printed onto textiles. The material will be presented on IDTechEX Europe at booth F16 in the Estrel Berlin on 27 and 28 April 2016. The new sensor technology will be incorporated into a …
Billions of trainers tagged in “biggest” IoT deployment
Avery Dennison, provider of RFID technology to the retail clothing sector, has teamed with IoT data systems firm Evrythng to connect 10 billion clothing and footwear products for major brands to cloud-based product ID and tracking services. The IoT deployment will use Evrythng’s Janela platform to provide digital identity and data management capabilities to consumer …
Rohde & Schwarz forms skills partnership with Swansea University
Rohde & Schwarz has secured the contract with Swansea University to equip the College of Engineering’s electronic teaching laboratories on the Bay Campus. The company has equipped 66 workstations in three labs with oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, power supplies and function generators. The contract was awarded following a European tender process. The total value of test …
Rohde & Schwarz forms skills partnership with Swansea University
LightFair exhibitors prepare to showcase SSL products
This year, 500 exhibitors prepare to converge on the city of San Diego, CA, with their latest solid-state lighting innovations in tow for LightFair 2016.