The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality confirmed contamination in the Doney Park Water Company supply.

The PM’s really fired up by Trump’s victory, Ed confides to his diary, is the vicar’s daughter titillated by the thought of cosying up to a rough-hewn Yankee builder? I don’t know, but in Cabinet she seems to go a shade pinker when he’s mentioned. Anyway, we’ve all been told to come up with ways …

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Imec and it’s subsidiary Holst Centre have developed a health patch which tracks physical and cardiac activity while monitoring bioelectrical impedance. The technology is available for licensing. “Since our entry in this space, we’ve advanced far beyond proof-of-concept to a patch that has attained a high level of technical maturity,” says Imec’s Ruben de Francisco, …

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Smartphone shipments are forecast to grow by 4% in 2016 to 1,490 million units after jumping by 13% to 1,430 million in 2015, says IC Insights, and to grow by 5% in 2017, reaching 1,565 million units. Overall, smartphone unit shipments are now forecast to grow at single-digit annual rates through 2020. Smartphones accounted for …

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Siemens could be announcing a decision to buy Mentor Graphics later today. It is reported that Siemens will pay between $4.5 billion and $4.6 billion in cash. Mentor, headed up by Wally Rhines (pictured), has been up against activist investor Elliott Management which has taken an 8% stake in the company and is pushing for …

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Xilinx is selling an FPGA acceleration stack including libraries, framework integrations, developer boards, and OpenStack support. Xilinx claims it provides the fastest path to realize 40x better compute efficiency with Xilinx FPGAs compared to x86 server CPUs and up to six times the compute efficiency over competitive FPGAs. Using dynamic reconfiguration, Xilinx enables silicon optimization …

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IQD’s new analogue ASIC-based temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) is tested using one frequency reading every two degrees centigrade over the full operating temperature range. “This, combined with a high order compensation circuit, delivers a frequency stability as tight as ±0.5ppm over -40 to +85°C,” said the firm. Called IQXT-274, it comes in a 3.2 x …

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At Electronica 2016, we caught up with Stewart Wilson, Business Manager at Keysight Technologies, to talk about power optimisation for autonomous IoT devices.

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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have used metal germanides at the metal-germanium interface, with suitable surface crystal planes, to improve contact resistance and device performance in germanium transistors. Germanium has high electron and hole mobilities, and has been demonstrated in MISFETs (metal-insulator-semiconductor FETs), but parasitic resistance and off-state leakage at the source-drain inhibit performance. …

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Two events this week could have significant implications for a global strategy to address climate change. On Wednesday the US voted in a new president and today the Eiffel Tower in Paris turned green, along with public buildings in Marrakesh, New Delhi, Sao Paulo and Adelaide. In a week when governments, including US, China, India and the …

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