Singapore’s national water agency PUB is to host the IDA Fellowship Programme for 2016-17, with the selected individual offered an opportunity in either desalination or reuse for the first time.
Genesco settles drinking water violations for $5.25M
The Nashville-based textile company must now ensure the maintenance of water treatment at the Fulton Avenue Superfund Site in Hempstead and North Hempstead.
Boston public schools test positive for lead in water fountains at 7 locations
As part of the school committee’s recently enacted Water Policy, Boston Public hired a consulting firm to retest the drinking water in the 30 school buildings that have active water fountains.
Datwyler still in the running for Premier Farnell, says board
Datwyler is still in the running for Premier Farnell despite Avnet’s bid. In June the company bid £795 million then, in July, Avnet made an £868 million bid.
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Hail the Megaprocessor, larging the microprocessor
The man behind the Megaprocessor is building his own computer, transistor by transistor, system component by system component.
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A little bit of Cumbria at a US air show
Spotted on a Fairchild A10 Warthog ground-attack aircraft at an airshow in Wisconsin, and photographed by commentator of this parish Steve K, this landing light is a long way from Ullverston Cumbria, where it was made by Oxley. Designed to replace a PAR46 bulb, it has a 200,000cd 6,000K white mode (+/-11° to 10%), and a …
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Infineon dominates in power
Infineon now dominates in every segment of the power semiconductor market, reports IHS. Last year, Infineon took over the overall top spot in power from TI, and the top spot in power modules from Mitsubishi, helped by its takeover of IR. It has been the leading supplier of discretes for some years. Discretes fell 10.1% …
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Buck boost DC-DC for battery products is up to 96% efficient
Intersil has announced ISL91127 and ISL91128, two buck boost regulators with 4.5A built-in switches and up to 96% efficiency.
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Largest EDP System In Europe Installed In Frankfurt
The largest electronic data processing system in Europe has been installed by Neckermann Versand KG in Frankfurt, West Germany. So, 55 years ago, starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25th 1961. The story continues: The centre consists of an IBM 7070 fully transistorised computing system. Neckermann’s, believed to be one of the …
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Amazon EC2 Container Service Now Supports Networking Modes and Memory Reservation
Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now supports two additional Docker features: networking modes and memory reservation.