nPERT cells feature a conversion efficiency of 23.03%, certified by Fraunhofer ISE CalLab

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Last chance to enter! Courtesy of Microlease, a total solutions provider for electronic test equipment, we have five pairs of VIP weekend tickets to the Brands Hatch VIP Superbike Event. Entries close today.

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Toshiba has launched an integrated dual H-bridge DC brushed motor driver IC

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Benchmarking consortium EEMBC has created a tool to measure the combined energy consumption of an IoT edge node’s sensor interface, processor, and Bluetooth LE radio interface. Part of the IoTMark benchmarking suite, it is called IoTMark-BLE benchmark. IoTMark-BLE models a node consisting of an I²C sensor and a BLE – radio through sleep, advertise, and …

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The Swiss food giant tries an appetizer connecting floor lamps to heating and other systems. Will it move on to the next course?

South Mountain MicroFarm has seen a 60% increase in lettuce yield using LED lighting in an aquaponic greenhouse application, while Dutch lily grower Together2Grow is using LEDs to supplement HPS lighting and boost yield.

You can now enable deletion protection for your Amazon RDS database instances and Amazon Aurora database clusters. When a database instance or cluster is configured with deletion protection, the database cannot be deleted by any user. Deletion protection is available for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server database instances in all AWS Regions.

Deletion protection is now enabled by default when you select the “production” option for database instances created through the AWS Console. You can also turn on or off deletion protection for an existing database instance or cluster with a few clicks in the AWS Console or the AWS Command Line Interface. Deletion protection is enforced in the AWS Console, the CLI, and API.

When you request the deletion of a database instance with deletion protection in the AWS Console, you are blocked and may not continue without first modifying the instance and disabling deletion protection.

Amazon Aurora database clusters can also be enabled for deletion protection. You will get an error when you attempt to delete the final database instance attached to a protected database cluster in the AWS Console. You may not continue unless you modify the DB Cluster and disable deletion protection.

Read more in the Deleting a Database Instance section of the Amazon RDS User Guide or Amazon Aurora User Guide .

Today, AWS Amplify announces support for using the Vue.js framework to build cloud-powered web apps with JavaScript. Developers can use AWS Amplify’s new package for Vue.js to add cloud features – such as authentication, user storage, analytics, and chatbots – to their apps with just with a few lines of code.

Starting today, C5d instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. C5d instances were first introduced in May 2018 and delivers C5 instances equipped with local NVMe-based SSD block level storage physically connected to the host server. C5d instances provide high-performance block storage for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage like video encoding, image manipulation and other forms of media processing. It will also benefit applications that need temporary storage of data, such as batch and log processing and applications that need caches and scratch files.  

Notifications about changes to tags are now available via Amazon CloudWatch Events. This allows you to monitor tag states on your AWS resources.