The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) has named 10 new board directors who will serve for two years from 2017 to 2019.
Black & Veatch provides design services for Missouri American Water
New Parkville Treatment Plant will increase water output and quality.
U of Arizona professor recognized for novel approaches to identifying drinking water contaminants
Agilent Technologies presents Thought Leader Award to Dr. Shane Snyder, influential water-quality researcher
Obama preparing semiconductor industry protection report for Donald Trump
Before President Obama hands over to Donald Trump on January 20th, the chief science adviser to the president, John Holdren, will produce a report on Chinese investment in the US semiconductor industry, reports the Wall Street Journal. The report is thought to be a guideline for the incoming president about protecting the US chip industry …
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CES: Small cell deployment on the agenda
5G mobile technology groups – Small Cell Forum (SCF) and 5G Americas – have worked together on tech papers to support the deployment of small cells. The reports, Small Cell Siting: Regulatory and Deployment Considerations and Multi-Operator and Neutral Host Small Cells: Drivers, Architectures, Planning and Regulation, are hoped to simplify the planning and regulatory issues associated with the dense Heterogeneous …
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CES: Autonomous cars and the sensors to make them safe
The technology for autonomous cars needs to progress before they become a practical reality, so let’s start with the countless sensors along with other technologies as V2X communications that autonomous vehicles will rely on to navigate safely, writes Davide Santo. Plenty of countries have now provided testing grounds for autonomous cars, from entire custom-built towns …
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Cree hits 2,500 lm from 5×5 leds
Cree has upped the power of its 5x5mm leds as it introduces the XHP50.2 range with up to 7% more lumens and 10% higher efficacy (see table below) compared with first generation XHP50. 2,500 lm is available from the 6mm (equiv dia) light emitting surface. “XHP50.2 LED has LM-80 data available immediately, reducing the time …
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Intel buys 15% stake in HERE
Intel has bought a 15% stake and the right to a supervisory board seat in HERE the mapping company which makes 3D digital maps of roads to centimetre-scale precision. Many technologists believe that this precision will be required to enable self-driving cars. Intel has agreements with BMW, Mobileye and Delphi to develop driverless technology and …
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Hexadecimal control switches exist, and they are made in the UK
Two-bit Gray-coded rotary switches (aka quarature encoders) are quite rightly widely available for setting values and controlling things. And I have seen small pcb-mount hexadecimal switches for pre-setting values. But are there proper chunky hexadecimal rotary switches for control purposes – for frequent changes rather than once-in-a-blue-moon adjustments? It transpires that they do exist, and …
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Bioinformatics figures among Queen’s New Year Honours list
The Queen’s New Year Honours list for 2017 has been announced, and bio-technology is a dominant theme among technology-related achievements (genetic profiling, bioinformatics, DNA sequencing). Leading the way is Sir Alec John Jeffreys, Emeritus Professor at Leicester University, who has been made Companion Of Honour (CH). A founding father of genetic profiling, he developed the …
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