The funds will help the village connect to the DuPage Water Commission in order to purchase Lake Michigan drinking water.

There’s nothing like a bit of good old-fashioned graft, Ed tells his diary, I’ve set up a new industry group – TTG – the Transformative Technologies Group. It’s a net to catch aspiring tech start-ups and they will be promoted to the public via a regular Departmental newsletter. The graft bit of it comes in …

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Imec says it has collected the world’s largest multisensor dataset on stress detection. Imec’s Stress in the Work Environment (SWEET) study captured data from more than 1,000 people and is the first large-scale study that used clinical-grade wearables to establish the link between mental stress and physiological symptoms in daily life. Work-related stress is common …

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Q4 PC sales were up for the first time in six years, reports IDC. 70.6 million PCs were shipped in the quarter compared with 70.1 million in Q4 2016. Q4 shipments were 0.6% up on Q3. in Q2 the market shrank 3%. “Enticed by a growing array of products that promise all-day battery life, high …

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Server DRAM prices will continue to rise as the supply remains tight in 1Q18, says DRAMeXchange. 2133MHz products will be overtaken by higher clock rate (2666MHz and 2400MHz) production, so high-bandwidth server modules will become the mainstream products. Datacentre demand and constricted supply kept server DRAM supply tight las year leafing to a 40% price …

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Sales of analogue ICs are expected to show the strongest growth rate among major integrated circuit market categories during the next five years, according to IC Insights’ 2018 McClean Report. The McClean Report forecasts that revenues for analogue products—including both general purpose and application-specific devices—will increase by a CAGR of 6.6% to $74.8 billion in …

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Intel’s patches for its processor bugs are themselves buggy. It is reported that datacentres have been told to delay installing them, while Intel issues patches to patch the patches. “We are working quickly with these customers to understand, diagnose and address this reboot issue,” says Navin  Shenoy, GM of Intel’s data centre groupsaid in the …

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TT Electronics has announced the HPWC (high pulse withstanding chip) range of high energy surge resistors, designed to maximise surge performance in a thick-film single-sided flat chip design. The product is essentially an evolution of the firm’s PWC (pulse withstanding chip) resistors, but where the resistance value is adjusted by precise process control rather than …

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Continental, Ericsson, Nissan, NTT DOCOMO,  OKI and Qualcomm Technologies are to carry out their first Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) trials in Japan. The objective is to validate and demonstrate the benefits of C-V2X using direct communication technology defined by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) in their Release 14 specifications. The trials are designed to show …

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UK tech investment is on a high and London-based firms attracted the lion’s share of funding, according to a market survey by London & Partners. British tech firms attracted more venture capital funding than any other European country in 2017. According to data compiled for London & Partners by PitchBook, venture capital investment into the …

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