Utility Scottish Water has awarded Xylem a five-year framework services agreement to supply and install submersible and diesel pumps for all of its rental applications across the region…

The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality in South Africa will host a demonstration project using Hitachi’s RemixWaterseawater desalination and water reuse integrated system…

Fifteen months into its course, the WAYTOGO FAST EU R&D project for promoting FD-SOI has achieved some significant targets the European Nanoelectronics Forum in Rome today was told. . Boosters for 14 and 28 FD-SOI have been investigated and developed . SOl wafers: +20% nFET loff/leff tradeoff . STRASS technique: +1.6GPa demonstrated (stress level > …

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BBC TV programmes can be downloaded and viewed offline on your Raspberry Pi as high definition .MP4 files. For some time now there has been an open source utility program called get_iplayer which is a set of scripts that allow you to download BBC iPlayer content for offline viewing. Alex Eames from the RasPi.TV blog …

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Government plans for new investment in infrastructure and R&D in the Autumn Statement, will be good for the engineering and technology sectors, says the Royal Academy of Engineering. This follows the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s commitment of £2bn per year by 2020 for research and development funding and £1bn for digital infrastructure. Professor Dame Ann Dowling, President of the Royal Academy …

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Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond outlined in the Autumn Statement the creation of an National Productivity Investment Fund to invest in the nationals digital infrastructure. But it will also see £100m invested in the development of infrastructure for autonomous vehicles, the much talked about ‘driverless cars’. The Chancellor ear-marked £390m for transport technology, including £80m for charging infrastructure for electric vehicles …

Read full article: Autumn Statement: Chancellor bets on driverless car tech

That awful sight of the SUV swaying as it careers towards you with the driver chatting on the phone, or of cars weaving across lanes as the drivers compose text messages could be a thing of the past as US regulators start to get involved. If they do, laws may follow and, if laws follow …

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The European Nanoelectronics Forum 2016 in Rome today raised an issue which applies to the entire workings of the EU government – how do we explain to the general public the usefulness of what we do? “There is concern about what policy makers do without involving the general public,” said Ben Ruck, Chair of ECSEL, …

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Europe has the know-how to be the world leader in digital healthcare, Professor Shahid Ali of Salford University told the European Nanoelectronics Forum 2016.

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The EU R&D project CONNECT will develop carbon nanotube and metal-CNT composites for IC interconnect, the Nanoelectronics Forum was told today.

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