As of today, high-resolution satellite imagery from the SpaceNet corpus is available as an AWS Public Data Set. The SpaceNet corpus includes approximately 1,900 square kilometers full-resolution 50cm imagery collected from DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 commercial satellite and includes 8-band multispectral data. The dataset also includes 220,594 building footprints derived from this imagery which can be used as training data for machine learning. The first Area of Interest (AOI) to released is of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and more AOIs will be made available in the future.

Poseidon Water is adjusting its strategy for gaining permits for Huntington Beach desalination plant, as it moves to keep the project running to schedule.

Cosmetic companies should be banned from using plastic microbeads in bathroom products because of the marine pollution they are causing, the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee has demanded…

Chemicals company LANXESS will double the production capacity of its reverse osmosis manufacturing site in Bitterfeld to meet demand…

The Kentucky Public Service Commission has granted Kentucky American Water a rate adjustment for water bills that will increase its annual revenue by $6.5 million.

Parsons was the design-builder for the WPCP project and the designer and construction manager for the force main project.

NHDES and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics approve bid process to extend Pennichuck water line to Litchfield residents.

NXP’s MRF1K50H is a 1,500W LDMOS transistor, following on from the 1,250W MRFE6VP61K25H. 1.5kW continuous wave is available at 50V, and the device works over 1.8–500MHz. The transistor is characterised from 30-50V. “It operates up to 500MHz for applications from laser and plasma sources to particle accelerators, industrial welding machines, radio and VHF TV broadcast transmitters, and …

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Andela, the African software development company, has received $24 million from Mark Zuckerberg’s investment vehicle Chan Zuckerberg. The two year-old Andela, based in Nairobi and Nigeria, trains people to code and then puts them on contracts with international customers to write software for them. It has 200 developers. Andela’s coders are said to rank in …

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I salute the ambition of this one, a Raspberry Pi chess system to control the movement of pieces on the board.

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