IoT lighting continues to evolve. This project is in the early stages.

AWS Service Catalog , used by enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS, is announcing the AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow. The connector allows you to use your existing AWS Service Catalog configuration, including curated products, portfolios, constraints, and tagging, and expose this to your ServiceNow administrators and users.

You can now record configuration changes to AWS X-Ray using AWS Config.

AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production-level distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are functioning to identify and troubleshoot performance issues and errors.

We have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, and 9.3.20 in AWS GovCloud (US). This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains additional bug fixes and improvements.

With this update, we have also added support for the ‘orafce’ extension to emulate a subset of common functions and packages in version 9.6.6; and the ‘prefix’ extension to provide prefix range functions capability in version 9.6.6 .

To use the new versions, you can create a new Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instance with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console , or upgrade an existing instance using point-and-click upgrades. An upgrade operation involves a short period of unavailability for your database instance. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide .

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for regional availability.

Amazon DynamoDB global tables is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. With global tables, you can give massively scaled, global applications local access to an Amazon DynamoDB table for fast read and write performance. You can also use global tables to replicate DynamoDB table data to additional AWS Regions for higher availability.

SmartBird is an ornithopter drone, inspired by the herring gull. Built by German automation firm Festo, it can fly, glide, take off and land using only its wings driven by on-board power. The drone’s wings span 2m and it weighs 480g including battery. Flying at its design speed of 5m/s, its wings are flapping at …

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MagnaChip Semiconductor has launched a third-generation 40nm OLED display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) for the next wave of OLED smartphone displays. The new rigid OLED DDIC supports various configurations such as FHDto FHD++, a wide aspect ratio up to 21:9 and bezel-less, edge type, and notch-type OLED displays. The 40nm mobile OLED DDIC already has …

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The memory boom could be over. At Apple’s results meeting, CFO Luca Maestri, said: “On the memory front, we feel that for NAND we’re going to be turning the corner very soon. For DRAM, we also think that we are near the peak, possibly at the end of this year.” TrendForce reckons that Q2 contract …

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Q1 semiconsuctor sales were $111 billion says the SIA, up 20% on Q1 2017 and down 2,5% on Q4. March sales were $37 billion, an increase of 20% compared to the March 2017 total of $30.8 billion and 0.7 percent more than the February 2018 total of $36.8 billion  “The global semiconductor market has demonstrated impressive …

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Anglia is organising two conference and exhibition events in June focusing on medical electronics. The events will be held at Cambourne near Cambridge on 12th June at The Oxford Belfry, Milton Common near Oxford on 27th June. The Wisbech-based distributor is working with suppliers ST, Advantech, Analog Devices, Panasonic, Renesas, Rohm, Varta and Omron which …

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