Ahead of World Water Day, Dow, Richard Childress Racing and University Research Partners Spotlight Importance of Innovation and Collaboration in Arizona.

 

Water innovation accelerator highlights digital solutions to global water challenges.

 

The $385 million project is being funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of British Columbia and the CRD.

 

The funding, provided by the WIIN Act, enables Flint to accelerate and expand its work to replace lead service lines and make other critical infrastructure improvements.

SEMI reports that February billings of equipment makers were $1.97 billion. – 6.1% higher than January’s $1.86 billion, and is 63.8% higher than the February’s level of $1.20 billion. “Billings levels remain elevated as memory and foundry manufacturers continue to invest in advanced semiconductor technologies,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “these investments are paving the …

Read full article: SEMI February billings up 6% on January

This month features the invention described in GB patent no. 2487734, which aims to improve the detection accuracy of Answer Machine Detection systems.

Read full article: Electronics patent of the month: Improving Answer Machine Detection systems

Ultrahaptics, the mid-air touchless haptic technology specialist, has signed an agreement with EBV Elektronik, an Avnet company, to distribute and market Ultrahaptics’ TOUCH Development Kit (UHDK5) and related microprocessors under itsnn EBVchips program. The UHDK5 development platform uses ultrasound to provide touch feedback in mid-air – enabling users to ‘feel’ virtual buttons, switches, dials and …

Read full article: Ultrahaptics signs EBV

Known as AS9100 in the USA, the accreditation is supported by major aeronautics manufacturers worldwide, says Harwin.

Read full article: Harwin increases aerospace focus

Orange Pi, the competitor to Raspberry Pi from Chinese firm Shenzhen Xunlong Software has created a design app store in partnership with Canonical. The Orange Pi compute module is based on a quad-core 64 bit ARM Cortex A7 Allwinner SoC. It is available in several models from the entry level Orange Pi Zero to the 2Gb …

Read full article: Raspberry Pi competitor taps Ubuntu community

Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems has teamed up with online distributor element14  to launch a research project competition for people detection designs using the supplier’s infrared sensor arrays. Designs will combine IR sensors with Bluetooth wireless systems and software for IR detection of people and objects on one board. The projects will be assessed by Panasonic and …

Read full article: Panasonic and element14 look for the best IR detector design