Coca-Cola European Partners has brought online a new water treatment and reuse system at its manufacturing site in East Kilbride, Scotland, UK.

There used to be lots of chip companies like Linear Technology which believed that innovation was the route to success and where the founding team stuck around to keep the invention culture bubbling. Now there are few such companies and, with the acquisition of LTC by ADI for $14.8 billion, the best of that ilk …

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Students should be encouraged to pursue a STEM career while they are of primary school age, according to 50% of STEM professionals responding to a survey by MathWorks, which was intended to reveal reasons behind the UK skill shortage. When asked to consider their own experiences; 40% said they were inspired to love the subjects by …

Read full article: Parents must encourage primary school kids to love science and maths

More still sneers to be done to encourage “a love” of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) amongst school students, according to industry research by software tools firm MathWorks. The view of those working in the tech sector is that students need to be encouraged towards these sectors much younger and at primary school. Almost a fifth of those …

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Hail QuadBot, which has just launched on KickStarter. The aim is for the robot to engage makers and teach robotics. With an Arduino-compatible “brain”, the designs features 3D printed mechanics.

Read full article: Crowdfunding Watch: QuadBot, making robotics fun

Graphene could improve loudspeakers, both in audio systems and phones, claims Canadian start-up Ora.

Read full article: Graphene: the ultimate loudspeaker cone material?

Thanks to Rootmetrics for this – the 16 best cities for mobile coverage: Liverpool Belfast Edinburgh Manchester Sheffield Coventry Leicester Birmingham Nottingham London Bristol Leeds & Bradford Newcastle Glasgow Cardiff Hull

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Codasip and UltraSoC are to integrate the Codix-Bk series of RISC-V cores with the UltraSoC environment.

Read full article: Codasip and UltraSoc combine on RISC-V

The SEMI book-to-bill went negative in October after 11 months in positive territory.

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Researchers at Manchester and Nottingham universities have come up with a better new material than graphene for electronics applications – Indium Selenide.

Read full article: Manchester and Nottingham universities find graphene-beater