You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create AWS Elemental MediaStore containers and policies (such as access control, CORS, and lifecycles) for those containers. This improvement enables you to use AWS CloudFormation to deploy MediaStore resources in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way.

Starting today, you can create Amazon RDS for MariaDB , Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL , database instances with up to 64 TiB of storage and provisioned I/O performance of up to 80,000 IOPS.

Copenhagen firm Soundboks produces Bluetooth speakers for folk who need a lot of sound in a portable rugged form. ‘Soundboks 2’ is its 66 x 43 x 32cm 15kg unit that includes 216Wrms worth of amplification and will run for eight hours at full volume (40h moderate volume) from its 12.8V 7.8Ah LiFePO4 battery – …

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PCIM – the power electronics exhibition in Nuremberg, is a fascinating place, accompanied by a vast amount of promotional activity – possibly more than the larger Embedded World show at the same venue. This promotion takes various forms, some useful and some not. Amongst this years crop, Infineon’s on-line ‘virtual booth’ really stood out as …

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The global smartphone production volume for 1Q19 totaled 311 million units, showing a YoY decrease of 9%, says TrendForce. The outlook for 2Q19 indicates that smartphone demand will stabilize, and the traditional busy season for stock-up activities will arrive in the latter half of the second quarter. So global smartphone production volume in 2Q19 is …

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Chemists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed an efficient water splitting catalyst. The catalyst comprises a double-helix semiconductor structure encased in carbon nitride. It is perfect for producing hydrogen economically and sustainably. An inorganic double-helix compound comprising the elements tin, iodine and phosphorus (SnIP) forms the core of the structure. It is …

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Intel replaced Samsung as the number one semiconductor supplier in 4Q18 after losing the lead spot to Samsung in 2Q17. While Samsung held the full-year number one ranking in 2017 and 2018, Intel is forecast to easily recapture the number one ranking for the full-year of 2019, a position it previously held from 1993 through …

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Raspberry Pi can be used as an Alexa or Amazon Echo type of home automation device thanks to a $29 kit from the Geek Shop. The Geek Shop calls the kit ‘The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle’. The bundle contains four courses which demonstrate how to make a range of home automation tools. …

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RSE of Muir and Ord  (previously Ross-shire Engineering) a subsidiary of Envoy & Partners which supplies engineering services to UK utilities, has bought a majority stake in  40 year-old Leeds switchboard and controls manufacturer Saftronics. Saftronics specialises in motor control centres, process control systems and low-voltage switchboards. It employs 110 people and operates from a 2,400m² …

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What are the most popular topics covered? There’s Android Auto, the US-China trade war, the BASPi series of building automation controllers powered by a Raspberry Pi, a 140GHz MIMO radar system from Imec and Huawei being on a black list…

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