Multi-million dollar repair fund will enable Newburyport to remediate corrosion in water system and implement critical improvements to sewer system.

The university will pay a $20,964 penalty to settle alleged violations related to the discharge of fuel oil from a storage facility in Fairfax, Va.

Fujitsu Labs has found a better way to parallel graphics processors (GPU) for deep learning applications. Using ‘AlexNet’, 64 GPUs in parallel achieve 27x the speed of a single GPU for, as far as Fujitsu can determine, the world’s fastest processing. A conventional method to accelerate deep learning is to use multiple computers equipped with …

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It seems the Dutch intend to lead the world into the electric car era. Although electric car sales in Holland are less than 10% of total car sales, the lower house of the Dutch Parliament has voted that the sale of petrol and diesel cars should be banned after 2025. To become law, the Dutch …

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The dirty deed is done, what now for ARM? Is ARM’s ambition that it should be ‘The Architecture for the Digital World’ now dead because it has lost its independence? Will the electronics industry ever again (after the Intel experience) allow a sole-sourced proprietary microprocessor to become dominant in any important industry segment? And, if …

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Ericsson says it is introducing the industry’s first 5G NR-capable radio, called Ericsson AIR 6468. It features 64 transmit and 64 receive antennas enabling it to support the company’s 5G plug-ins for both Massive MIMO and Multi-User MIMO. The high-performance beamforming, required for Massive MIMO, is enabled through the use of a split Cloud RAN …

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Toshiba will ship Hi-Speed-compatible TransMemory USB 2.0 flash drives up to 128GB in Q4. The drives have a USB connector that retracts with the pull of a slide control. Available capacities are 16GB, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. Based on Toshiba’s NAND flash memory technology, TransMemory U203 drives offer a USB Type A interface and are …

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The lighting for the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, China includes leds from Osram. The firm has supplied around 400 of its own Kreios PAR units (pictured), and there are Osram LEDs in luminaires supplied by the Chinese company Roleds for wallwashing, walkway lights and accent lighting. Included amongst the leds are Duris S 5 Color – …

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Scientists at Durham university have trained a suspension of carbon nanotubes in liquid to perform a simple mathematical function. “We started with a thin film of nanotubes in a liquid crystal matrix, then we applied voltages to train it to do something useful,” Professor Michael Petty told Electronics Weekly. Physically, the computer is square array of 16 …

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There was once a captain of industry who was a statistician who thought that companies could be run by numbers, ratios and figures. In 1968, less than ten years after the invention of the chip, he sold his company’s half share in the UK’s second biggest chip company. In 1971, in one of the industry’s …

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