America’s WateReuse Association has unveiled the winners of this year’s awards for leadership in water reuse.

Company to support artificial reefs in Condado Lagoon in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

A conjoined approach to solving the problems of growing demand for energy and water would definitely be attractive. At the National University of Singapore, we have integrated the solutions to these two problems by designing a plasmonic solar thermal collector nanocomposite, comprising a Ag/SiO2 core, with a TiO2 outer shell as a photocatalyst.

Emergency repairs are underway at Pt Lisas Desalination Plant in Trinidad and Tobago, after part of a pipeline collapsed leaving residents without water, reports the Trinidad Express.

This was the headline, 55 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of February 1st 1961. The story opens: An off-the-shelf delivery service is now available for STC tunnel diodes. They were introduced early last yea r in development form to enable engineers to gain experience in the use of them Since then …

Read full article: Tunnel Diodes ‘Off the Shelf’.

Q2 worldwide semiconductor billings were $10.5 billion – 26% up on Q1 and 11% up on Q2 2015, says SEMI. Q2 worldwide semiconductor equipment bookings were $11.9 billion up 27% on Q1 and up 17% on Q2 2015. The quarterly billings data by region in billions of U.S. dollars, quarter-over-quarter growth and year-over-year rates by …

Read full article: Q2 bookings up 26%, says SEMI

In H1 IQE, the Cardiff compound semiconductor wafer specialist, saw double digit growth in revenues, profits and cash generation. Revenues were up 18% reflecting increasing revenues in all markets; cash generated from operations increased 176%; debt was reduced by 28% to £35.4 million and photonics sales grew 45% y-o-y; The company earned licensing income of …

Read full article: IQE sparkles

Can Apple justify dropping the headphone jack from its latest, iPhone 7, smartphones? Let us know what you think.

Read full article: Poll: Apple drops the headphone jack

Microchip has announced Explorer 16/32, a development board for 16 and 32bit PIC microcontrollers that is backwards compatible with the Explorer 16 Board

Read full article: Microchip dev board covers 16 and 32bit PICs

The UK’s high tech manufacturing sector has an opportunity to get back on a very exciting growth curve. Step-changes in technology can create business opportunities for companies and the precision manufacturing sector, which is so important to the electronics supply chain in the UK, has been presented with just such an opportunity in 3D printing. …

Read full article: How 3D printing will save UK manufacturers