AWS is announcing immediate availability of the new AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. The GovCloud (US-East) Region joins GovCloud (US-West) as the second AWS GovCloud Region in the US, and the 19th AWS Region worldwide. The AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region consists of three Availability Zones and with this launch, the AWS Global Infrastructure now offers a total of 57 Availability Zones worldwide, serving customers in over 190 countries.

Amazon Inspector now offers agentless network assessments with the ‘Network Reachability’ rules package that identifies ports and services on your Amazon EC2 instances that are accessible from outside your VPC. With just a few clicks in the Inspector console, you can analyze the network configuration of your AWS account to identify the resources accessible from the internet or private networks like VPN, Direct Connect, or a peered VPC.  

With AWS Elemental MediaLive, you can now switch a live channel between preconfigured inputs. This means assigned inputs for a running channel can be changed according to a defined schedule. Schedules can be created through the AWS Management Console or API. For more information, see the Input Switching Documentation .

Amazon Glacier is now available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Customers use Amazon Glacier to archive data for long term retention, for compliance, and to back up content that is infrequently accessed. Amazon Glacier can be used directly through the AWS Management Console; the AWS software development kits (SDKs) for Java, .NET, PHP, or Python; the Amazon Glacier API directly; or by using S3 Lifecycle policies to move existing objects stored in Amazon S3 to Amazon Glacier for archival storage. With this expansion, Amazon Glacier is now available in all AWS Regions.

Renesas has introduced a safety analysis tool intended to ease the integration of the firm’s products into safety-critical automotive systems “while increasing user confidence in system compliance to the latest safety standard”, it said. The failure mode effects and diagnostics analysis (FMEDA) software is optimized for ISO 26262, which addresses safety of electrical and electronic systems …

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55 years ago a scientist published a paper which showed how to make fibre which kept light moving down it instead of spilling out of the sides. The scientist did a lot of calculations to show how the fibre’s dimensions would affect the loss of light down the fibre. 27 years later, he told Electronics …

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A flexible sensor can map blood oxygen levels over large areas of skin, tissue and organs.

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MAX22190 is an IEC 61131-2 compliant industrial digital input device, which translates eight 24V current-sinking inputs to an SPI-compatible serial output that interfaces with 3V to 5.5V logic. A current setting resistor allows it to be configured for Type 1, Type 2, or Type 3 inputs. “Designed to reduce power, system cost, and size for …

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Development boards and system on modules (SoMs) from Trenz Electronic are now available from RS Components. The modules are based on Xilinx FPGAs and SoCs and are designed for engineers and researchers to begin work on parallel processing systems for data gathering and storage. Initially, the distributor will offer Trenz’s FPGA-based boards, including the Kintex-7 …

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British agri-tech start up Small Robot Company officially unveiled ‘Harry’, its digital planting robot, at Agri-Tech East’s REAP 2018 Conference in Cambridge. Harry is a prototype of what Small Robot claims will be the world’s first digital drilling robot for combinable crops, one of three smart robots called Tom, Dick and Harry robots that are …

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