Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports container logging to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor and troubleshoot your applications that run in containers. You can send each container’s log output to CloudWatch Logs and monitor these logs in near real-time. 

We are excited to announce a new edge location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location for Atlanta and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 60. 

Saudi Arabia continues to lead the race for installed desalination capacity with a new report suggesting it now contributes 18% globally…

A new potable water supply system has been inaugurated for nearly 14,000 people in Haiti as part of a United Nations mission…

Littelfuse has introduced two series of transient voltage suppressor (TVS) diodes designed specifically to protect electronic equipment in vehicles from ‘load dump’, and other voltage spikes – load dump is the high energy transient created when a vehicle battery is disconnected while the alternator is running. AEC-Q101 qualified TP1.5KE and TP5KP offer a choice of …

Read full article: 1.5kW and 5kW transient suppressors get AEC-Q101 qualified

A UK company specialising in enabling the manufacture of synthetic diamond-based electronics receives £750K of new funding.

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View National Instrument’s oscilloscope range and see how they can help you

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I love Brexit, Ed confides to his diary, because no one knows what it is, which means it can be anything. As Baron Shoreditch Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, people seem to think I have inside knowledge about what Brexit is. In other words I can make it up as …

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Toshiba has made available an “Easy Prototyping” service that allows reuse of the design assets required to develop large scale custom SoC with FPGA prototyping. Adoption dramatically shortens the development time from FPGA prototyping to custom SoC development, says Toshiba. Easy Prototyping is available on Toshiba’s ASIC and FFSA platforms. In conventional FPGA prototyping, SoC …

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With an analog sensor that detects moisture levels, you’ll set up a plant monitor with a light and sound alarm system to tell you when your plant needs watering.

Read full article: How to build a plant monitor with Arduino