Imec, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, ZSW), today announced that they have fabricated a thin-film solar module stack made up of perovskite and Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) with a conversion efficiency of 17.8%. The module surpasses the highest efficiencies of …

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Imagination Technologies has licensed the full range of UltraSoC semiconductor IP and software. The agreement allows Imagination customers to incorporate UltraSoC’s real-time trace and control capabilities into their SoC products, providing intimate visibility of the internal operation of the device with very little silicon overhead. It also enables Imagination to significantly enhance its development flow, …

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Jeff Bezos says he wants Amazon to be an ‘invention machine’ and the company’s rent-a-priest service in Japan shows just how inventive it can be. Amazon teamed up last year with Japanese Internet start-up Minrevi to offer the service called Obosan-bin. For $350 a priest will come to your home and hold a memorial service …

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It could be significant but it may very well come to nothing, however Audi, Daimler, BMW, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm have formed the ‘5G Automotive Association’ and are looking to find other members. The association aims to ‘evolve, test and promote communications solutions for connected mobility’ and promote ‘connected automated driving’. Now one …

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LED modules with a collimating reflector placed over each LED can enable luminaires such as downlights to be far thinner than the legacy form factor and thinner than most LED-based versions.

We are excited to announce the availability of the m4.16xlarge, the largest instance size in the latest generation of EC2 General Purpose instances, featuring 64 vCPUs and 256 GiB of memory. The m4.16xlarge offers a balance of compute, memory, and network resources, and is a good choice for many applications including databases, data processing tasks, cluster computing, and web servers that require high computational horsepower or memory size.

Aria FLEX designed to treat 75 MGD at peak flow; Reduces phosphorus to Spokane River.

German company MICRODYN-NADIR has acquired US specialty membrane company TriSep Corporation.

The German Water Partnership and The Water Council have signed a MoU to establish and expand their presence in each other’s markets…

YBSD will be the first customer to use GE’s new ZeeLung membrane aerated biofilm reactor technology…