Amazon Elasticsearch Service is now HIPAA Eligible. You can now use Amazon Elasticsearch Service to store and analyze protected health information (PHI) and build HIPAA compliant applications. 

Amazon RDS now includes enhancements to the Auto Minor Version Upgrade feature for Amazon RDS database instances. Auto Minor Version Upgrade is a feature that you can enable to have your database automatically upgraded when a new minor database engine version is available.

You can now easily see when a minor version upgrade is scheduled to be applied to your database instance in the AWS Console or through the DescribePendingMaintenanceActions API. You can also choose to apply an available minor version upgrade immediately with a few clicks or via the ApplyPendingMaintenanceAction API.

San Diego has added to it LED street-light portfolio and to sensor-enabled wireless controllers for a variety of public service applications, while a coalition of municipalities in the so-called Inland Empire have struck a unique financial deal to purchase street light assets from utilities and migrate to SSL.

Can you spot yourself or your colleagues among this year’s party people?

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The RISC-V Summit was held in Santa Clara, California, USA this week (3 – 6 December). The industry looked ahead to the potential of the open architecture and was a platform for the providers of core IP and development tools that make up its ecosystem. There were two announcements from IAR Systems in support of …

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Polydimethylglutarimide (PMGI) is the key to positioning sensors made from 2D materials permanently onto curved surfaces, according to Rice University in Texas. Its research team was seeking a sacrificial layer – one on which 2D materials could be made, then used as a carrier film for transport to the target surface, while disappearing once the …

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Room-temperature fluorine-ion batteries are possible, according to computer simulations by a team of scientist in the US – potentially leading to an anion-based rechargeable battery to trump cation-based technology like Li-ion. “Fluoride-based battery electrodes can store more ions per site than typical lithium-ion electrodes, which means that this technology has the capability to be much more …

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“There is little doubt that luck plays a role in the VC business,” says Tom Perkins of  Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers in his book ‘Valley Boy’. Perkins tells the story of one of his investments which was in  the satellite business. ‘The management had acquired, for ten million dollars, a channel on a satellite …

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With lots of confusion over how to change 3D printer settings, a little rest from learning more on how to use the software seemed in order. So option 4 from yesterday seemed a good idea – print something that would reveal what else about my simple cheap printer needs attention. A 3DBenchy from Thingyverse seemed …

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The company around Bloodhound, the car being built in the UK to attempt 1,000mph, has gone bust. This is sad news for a brilliant team of engineers, but maybe it is for the better. After all, an earlier version of the team already holds the world land speed record with supersonic Thrust SSC and, however …

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