Findings come from Los Angeles Basin study, released by Bureau of Reclamation.

Veolia subsidiary VWS Westgarth has been awarded a contract to supply a flood water system for the Ngujima-Yin Floating Production Storage and Offloading facility…

Ever wondered how a city the size of London overcame enormous sanitation problems back in the mid-1800s? Thanks to an interactive slide slow from the Guardian, you can find out…

A $120 million loan has been approved by the Asian Development Bank to improve water supply services for over 260,000 inhabitants in the Kibray and Zangiota districts of Tashkent Province…

The problem with connecting billions of IoT devices to the internet is that currently this relies on 25-year-old digital radio technology. If driverless cars that are connected to the internet are to work reliably they will need radios that are dramatically more spectrum efficient; they will need to change frequency, bandwidth or radio standard in …

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LED streetlight firm Schréder has signed an agreement with Panasonic, to co-develop products and infrastructure for smart cities. Schréder is a multi-national, with a Brussels HQ and a design centre in the UK. According to a company spokesman, the UK design centre was responsible for Shuffle (pictured), an interactive street column, launched in 2015, that …

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Is Intel getting out of wearables? Well that is the conclusion being drawn as reports come in of lay-offs in the company’s New Devices Group (NDG) Two years Intel bought a company called Basis Science which made fitness bands called Basis Peak but these turned out to burn people and, earlier this year, Intel shut …

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With a software programming industry saturated with men it is believed that software companies could be losing out on gifted women coders. Inspiring women from a young age to enter the technology industry could see software development companies receiving a greater number of female applicants. However, according to data released by Coupfy, more than half (56%) of women in …

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The company behind the thermal simulation tool 6SigmaET has published a report,Heat is On, looking at some of the priorities of current electronics design.

Read full article: Survey: Electronics design engineers not feeling the heat

MACOM has bought AppliedMicro for $770 million – representing a 15% premium to its prior-acquisition market cap – but says it will dispose of AppliedMicro’s computer business within 100 days of the deal closing. MACOM thinks that Applied Micro’s connectivity business comprising OTN framers, MACsec Ethernet networking components and PAM4 platform is complementary. MACOM thinks …

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