Teachers from several schools win grants from Cash for Classrooms to drive new and exciting water education.

Recipients are Drexel University and Purdue University.

Consulting and technology services provider gets $12M Human Health Risk Assessment contract from EPA Office of Water.

Gartner and IDC have completed their PC unit shipment data for 2016.

Read full article: 2016 PC unit numbers down

Beta Gallium Oxide has potential as a wide band-gap semiconductor, says Purdue University, delivering ultra-efficient switches for power electronics applications

Read full article: Beta Gallium Oxide delivers ultra-wide band-gap GOOI

On 12th January 2017 the Candidate SVHC list increased by 4 to 173. This is the list change that was expected in December. For more details see https://echa.europa.eu/candidate-list-table Directive Decoder – Peter Wheeldon, Head of Global Product Compliance, Farnell element14 See also: REACH SVHC List changed See also: REACH – Notification of SVHC’s

Read full article: Candidate SVHC list increases

The latest monthly split of Android platform share has been released by Google, for January 2017. As always, it’s based on active devices interacting with Google Play over the period of a week.

Read full article: Android platform stats: So, farewell then, Froyo…

According to Digitimes, Tsinghua is planning to build two more fabs in addition to the one it is building at its subsidiary Yangtze River Storage.

Read full article: Tsinghua plans $70bn fab spend

Zytronic signs a worldwide distribution agreement with Future Electronics for its ZyBrid p-cap touch sensors and display modules.

Read full article: Touch display firm Zytronic signs global deal with Future

The market for non-military hybrid and pure electric ships and boats will rise to over $20bn worldwide in 2027

Read full article: Electric ships market $20bn by 2027