A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for January 30, 2017.

‘We’re all Trump-ites now,’ Ed confides to his diary, ‘the PM has returned from Washington all aglow and the word from No.10 is no more snide remarks about comb-overs, walls and pussy. The vicar’s daughter has, it seems, been bowled over by the charisma of the rough-hewn Yankee builder. We’re hearing from No.10 that she …

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Padre Dam, Helix, El Cajon and the County to develop new reliable, locally-controlled, drought proof drinking water supply.

Aquarius Technologies, LLC’s acquisition will include focus on its biological wastewater treatment technology.

 

The newly added 12 million gallons per day is enough water to supply 53,000 households.

Spin Transfer Technologies, the developer of Orthogonal Spin Transfer Magneto-Resistive Random Access Memory technology (OST-MRAM), is sampling fully functional ST-MRAM devices.

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I worked from home yesterday and had trouble accessing the mighty servers of Electronics Weekly. So I fired up a Raspberry Pi 3 and…     ….I still couldn’t connect with the servers. But I could do all the usual office-type tasks at full speed and with out any inconvenience. Web-browsing was slightly slow, maybe …

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Toshiba has announced the spin-off of its memory business. Market watcher DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, believes there are advantages in the long run that will benefit the Toshiba-Western Digital alliance in the forms of expansion in NAND flash production capacity and increased efficiency in storage product development. “Toshiba wants to put its memory business in a more stable …

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Harvard scientists Professor Isaac Silvera and Ranga Dias have made metallic hydrogen – a material which could have many applications including room temperature superconductors.

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Prime Minister Theresa May singled out robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in her blueprint for a ‘modern’ industrial strategy for the UK.

Read full article: UK robotics head welcomes May’s industrial blueprint