New study published at UN climate conference reveals companies are not moving fast enough to address water risk.

Report designed to help water utilities complete and update source water characterizations and implement source water protection practices.

ClearFlo MBC^x delivers greater than 90% clean water recovery and brine concentrations reaching 300,000 mg/l.

This month’s patent features the challenge of transaction checking and countering ‘man-in-the-middle’ and ‘man-in-the-browser’ attacks

Read full article: Electronics patent of the month: Transaction checking

Samsung Electronics has agreed to acquire US connected car technology firm Harman International Industries for around $8bn. Samsung said that connected vehicle technology was “a strategic priority” for the company and is expected to grow to more than $100bn by 2025. Harman claims to have more than 30 million vehicles equipped with its connected car and audio systems, including embedded infotainment, telematics, …

Read full article: Samsung pays $8bn for connected car tech firm

IBM and Nvidia have collaborated on a deep learning tool to “help train computers to think and learn in more human-like ways at a faster pace”, said IBM. In this case, ‘deep learning’ is being used to mean crunching through vast tracts of data to detect and rank its most important aspects. IBM sees it …

Read full article: IBM and Nvidia teach supercomputers to learn

Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, introduces a server processor with 24 ARM Cortex-A53 cores.

Read full article: Socionext makes 24-core ARM server processor

Tesla agrees to acquire Grohmann Engineering, a German company developing technologies for automated manufacturing.

Read full article: Tesla buys German firm in major European move

Zach Shelby, CEO of the micro:bit Foundation has replied on the issue of over-heating chips (and proposed mechanism here) on the BBC’s tiny computer – he says there will be changes in the next revision.   As with any other electronic PCB used outside a lab, micro:bits are susceptible to damage, including ESD. If a …

Read full article: Over-hot micro:bits – Foundation CEO replies

As Talleyrand said of the Bourbons “they learned nothing and forgot nothing” so it is with our Euro-elite. Jean-Claude Juncker’s insolent public reaction to the US election shows that he thinks the world is wrong, not him. “We will need to teach the president-elect what Europe is and how it works,” said Junker, “two years …

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