The small “bridge” can reside either inside or outside a fixture to wirelessly control dimming, color temperature, and other things in a mesh scheme.

Amazon RDS Performance Insights, an advanced database performance monitoring feature that makes it easy to diagnose and solve performance challenges on Amazon RDS databases, is now generally available on Amazon RDS for MySQL 5.6 release 5.6.41 and higher. It offers a free tier with 7 days of data retention and a paid long-term data retention option.

AWS Marketplace, which lists over 4,200 software listings from more than 1,400 Independent Software Vendors, has announced a new pricing option that enables you to pay-as-you-go if you need additional usage from your original contract. With this new feature, you can combine the discounts from committed usage and the flexibility of on-demand usage. You can select the SaaS product you need in AWS Marketplace, configure the usage and duration you’ve estimated, and review the rate you will pay if your usage goes over the contracted terms.

You can now deliver a consistently high-quality video viewing experience while reducing overall distribution bitrates by using Quality-Defined Variable Bitrate (QVBR) encoding with AWS Elemental MediaLive. QVBR is a video compression technique that automatically adjusts output bitrates to the complexity of source content and will only use the bits required to maintain a defined level of quality. This means by using QVBR encoding, you can save on distribution costs, while maintaining, or increasing video quality for your viewers.

The Amazon VPC Container Networking Interface (CNI) plugin version 1.2.1 is now available. All new clusters managed by Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) now launch with CNI plugin version 1.2.1.

Renesas has announced its Connected Car Software Development Tools

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Wafer shipments expected to eclipse the all-time market high set in 2017

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Google complies with the recent antitrust ruling against its handling of Android

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Human interaction with technology through voice control is more convenient than touchscreens but difficult to achieve

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