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The world population is expected to increase to 9.1 Billion by 2050 and with that, the demand for food is expected to grow by 70% by 2050. As of today agriculture productivity is stalling. Given the enormous challenges that farmers face every day with respect to unexpected environmental changes, economic downturns, and many other associated risk factors, the food...

In another example of how solar power could help address the mess created by fossil fuel use, researchers have unveiled a new process for the solar-driven electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide into fuel components. Scientists at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have constructed the first “earth-abundant” and low-cost catalytic system for splitting CO2 into CO (carbon monoxide)...

The Internet is an ever-evolving service that has become the necessity of the current times. It has become so important that schools are teaching the basics of the internet to the high-school grade children. With the world moving to a realm of digital future, many negative elements of the society have been using it to their deeds, which has...

The internet of things (IoT) is transforming the health care industry by redefining how applications, devices and people interact and connect with each other in delivering healthcare solutions. IoT is offering new tools as well as efficiencies that make up an integrated health care system with the view of ensuring patients are cared for better, health care costs are reduced...

Last week, workers switched on a solar energy plant capable of producing 40 megawatts of power, which floats on a manmade lake in China’s Anhui province near the city of Huainan, reports Sarah Zheng at the South China Morning Post. The array is the largest floating solar project in the world, though at the brisk pace China is building...

MUMBAI: A safety device to alert a company when its women employees reach home using the company cars is just one of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices that Tata Communications is working on. Others include a tracker that will alert a fast-moving consumer goods firm if its coolers used by retailers to keep products at a certain temperature are...

Before the advent of sensors in cars, phones, thermostats, refrigerators and factory-floor devices, information technology and operational technology were two different worlds. The Internet of Things is changing that. Now, as a sea of data is sucked in to all kinds of devices in all sorts of places, there is an increasing need to merge IT and OT in order...

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.  today announced the offering and pricing of $500.0 million of its 3.450% Senior Notes due 2027. Maxim Integrated intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated is sole active book-running manager for the offering, which is expected to close on June 15, 2017.  A...

Allegro MicroSystems, LLC announces the release of a new micropower LED driver IC that features an integrated Hall-effect switch. The APS13568 enables compact, elegant, reliable, and fault-tolerant LED lighting with minimal electrical engineering and low component-count and cost. A single silicon chip integrates: a micropower regulator, a Hall plate, a small-signal amplifier, chopper stabilization, a Schmitt trigger, open drain...

BOSTON, Mass. and WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following rapid growth across the industry in 2016, the United States solar market added 2,044 megawatts of new capacity in the first quarter of 2017. As installations grow, prices continue to fall to new lows, with utility-scale system prices dropping below the $1 per watt barrier for the first time, according to GTM...