Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), which provides simple and scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud, now allows you to access your file data from on-premises datacenters. On-premises servers can now move file data to and from your Amazon EFS file systems when connected to your Amazon VPC with AWS Direct Connect, allowing you to migrate data sets to EFS, enable cloud bursting scenarios, or backup your on-premises data to EFS. 

Your Amazon RDS for Oracle Database Instance can now send emails using utl_smtp package and communicate with external Web Servers and TCP/IP-based servers using utl_http and utl_tcp packages. To learn more about using this feature, refer to Amazon RDS for Oracle documentation .

Two scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have been recognised for the development of a novel thin film composite hollow fibre membrane…

The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development will loan US$115.5 to help with the funding of a seawater desalination plant for the city of Port Said…

As HM Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, and particularly as Baron Shoreditch, I feel I should be creating some energy down in Shoreditch at Tech City – Silicon Roundabout as it used to be called. “Fix me half a dozen appointments and a town hall at Tech City,” I order my PPS. …

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Fujitsu has developed an ‘exquisitely’ sensitive gas sensor based on a new principle that using graphene. This development paves the way for compact instruments that can measure specific gas components with speed and sensitivity, for detecting atmospheric pollution or testing for organically derived gases in a person’s breath. Fujitsu’s graphene gas sensor replaces the gate …

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Korea’s ETRI has developed a high performance processor for autonomous vehicles called Aldebaran.

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There are many terms and acronyms we have to get our heads around and this week I am going to introduce you to the terminology around wire crimping.

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Check out this freshly produced video from the night, at the Grosvenor Hotel in London, to give a good flavour of the Elektra Awards 2016.

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Panasonic is in talks to buy Austrian automotive LED manufacturer ZKW, reports the Nikkei. Panasonic’s automotive business currently focuses on batteries and navigation systems. ZKW would add LED headlights and lighting modules to the product portfolio. ZKW had sales of $949 million last year and it is thought the purchase price will be around $1 …

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