A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for January 9, 2017.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for January 9, 2017.

Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, is joining Terry Guo, Chairman of Foxconn, Apple and Saudi Arabia in investing in the $100 billion Softbank Vision Fund initiated by Masayoshi (‘Massa’) Son, founder of Softbank Saudi Arabia is investing $45 billion, Softbank says it will invest $25 billion, Apple is investing $1 billion and it is not …

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The smart plug includes a current monitor for monitoring the usage of the main device. It also includes a transmitter, which may be WiFi enabled

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2016 worldwide server shipments are expected to come in at 11.86 million units in 2016, growing 8% from 2015, reports Digitimes Research. Data centre server shipments grew 15-20%, higher than traditional branded server shipments which grew 3-5%. In 2017, worldwide server shipments are expected to grow another 6% to reach 12.58 million units. Servers using …

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Bosch launched its smallest barometric pressure sensor at CES, aiming it at drones, phones, tablets and wearables. Called BMP380, it is 2 x 2 x 0.75mm and “tests in real-life environments have verified a relative accuracy of +/-0.06hPa over a temperature range from 25°C to 40°C”, said the firm, equating this to +/-0.5m. “The sensor is …

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Once again my eye has been off the ball, as I have only just realised that CadSoft’s excellent schematic capture and PCB layout tool Eagle is now available to run on Linux and Mac OS X as well as Windows. The restricted maker version, Eagle Express, is available free for non-commercial use and, having used …

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CES 2017 is underway in Las Vegas and there has already been a lot of auto-related news, and here’s an an Android specific automotive angle from Panasonic.

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The aim of a new global engineering design competition? To Change the World, no less. element14 is asking, what would you do to make a positive impact, as an electronics engineer?

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There was a demonstration of the first real-time, multi-target location tracking using the LoRaWAN low-power, wide-area network protocol at CES 2017 this week. A group of firms from the LoRA Alliance, promoting the wide-areas IoT wireless standard, including STMicroelectronics, myDevices and Senet, carried out the demonstration. It included LoRaWAN-supported radio technology and automotive-navigation chips from ST, custom application …

Read full article: CES: ST joins Senet for LoRa IoT network build