AWS Trusted Advisor now helps all customers better secure their data by providing the S3 Bucket Permissions check for free!

Today, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is introducing support for using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service-linked roles , a new type of role that allows you to easily delegate permissions to AWS services. 

Starting today, Inter-Region Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peering is available in AWS EU (London), EU (Ireland), EU (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo) Regions in addition to AWS US East (Northern Virgina), US East (Ohio), US West (Northern California), US West (Oregon) Regions.

LED lighting is having a major impact on the way plants are grown commercially in greenhouses. As a result the horticultural lighting market reached almost $3.8bn in 2017, according to market data from Yole Développement. But changes to the horticultural LED lighting market indicate that greenhouse applications may only be the tip of the iceberg. …

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Samsung Says it has begun mass producing the industry’s largest capacity Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD) – the PM1643 – for use in next-generation enterprise storage systems. Leveraging Samsung’s 64-layer, 3-bit 512-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND chips, the 30.72 terabyte (TB) drive delivers twice the capacity and performance of the previous 15.36TB high-capacity lineup …

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Microchip’s MCP6411 operational amplifier can operate with a single supply voltage as low as 1.7V, while drawing 55μA quiescent current (max). Called MCP6411, input offset is ±1.0mV max, and both input and output operate rail-to-rail. Compensation means it is unity gain stable, and it has a gain bandwidth product of 1 MHz (typ). “The MCP6411 …

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Qualcomm has increased it offer for NXP to $127.50 per share representing a purchase price of $44 billion. Qualcomm’s previous bid was $110 per share worth $39 billion. Before the new offer NXP stock was trading at $118.50. Qualcomm has entered into binding agreements with nine NXP stockholders who collectively own more than 28% of …

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Amplicon’s product development plans for 2018 include the introduction of new Industrial computers every month. The first release is the Impact-R 156/157, a Mini-ITX embedded computer based on the Intel Q170 chipset, delivering support for both 6th and 7th generation Intel Core processors as well as offering increased bandwidth and functional expansion. The Mini-ITX embedded …

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Digi-Key Electronics has put a new library of nearly 1,000 common parts for use by the open source, KiCad schematic capture and printed circuit board tool on beta release on its website. The distributor has selected the most popular parts for users of KiCad and created a library that links the schematic symbols and printed …

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In 2017, Intel lost its 24 year position as the largest chip manufacturer, now it may have lost its leading position in chip manufacturing technology. Intel’s six-transistor SRAM cell made on its 10nm process measures 0.0312 sq micron. TSMC’s six-transistor SRAM cell made on its 7nm process measures 0.0272 sq micron. Samsung’s six transistor SRAM …

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