Don’t call it an iWatch, and don’t call it Apple Watch ii. Instead, welcome the Apple Watch Series 2, announced at an Apple event in California this weekend.

Read full article: Gadget Watch: Time for the Apple Watch Series 2?

In an exclusive interview Naomi Climer, president of the IET, says she sees challenges but also opportunities in a post-Brexit tech sector

Read full article: Brexit may not be all bad news if we are careful, says IET president

After World War II the Americans occupying Japan decided to break up the zaibatsu – the industrial conglomerates which controlled Japan’s economy. The four biggest – Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and Yasuda – controlled a quarter of the country’s economy. In 1946, Konosuke Matsushita, who’d built his own company unlike most of these venerable organisations, was …

Read full article: Matsushita’s Scapegoat

Trident Energy has developed multi-kW linear electromagnetic generators for wave power. Electronics Weekly spoke to Trident CEO Steve Packard to find out how these monsters of the sea work, and what they can do. In principle, they are simple: the movement of a long cylindrical multi-pole magnet through a wound armature generates power every time …

Read full article: More on: PowerPod wave-to-grid energy transducer

With skills training and STEM education always a big issue, my eye was drawn to a report entitled “Kids in Engineering report”, which has just been published.

Read full article: How can we get more kids into engineering?

The top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with PiCapture, ARM, electric cars and Sigfox comms all figuring prominently…

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Spectrum has expanded its LXI-based digitizerNETBOX series with eight digitisers featuring from 24 to 48 synchronized channels.

Read full article: Spectrum digitiser has up to 48 16bit inputs

Philips says its ArenaVision LED stadium lighting system supports ultrahigh-definition TV broadcasts.

You can now monitor and automatically react to changes in your AWS CodeDeploy deployments using Amazon CloudWatch Events. This lets you detect changes in the state of an Amazon EC2 instance or deployment managed by CodeDeploy, and then invoke an action based on rules that you set. This is useful for building workflows and processes that are triggered by changes in your deployments. 

You can now use the Oracle Label Security (OLS) option to control access to individual table rows in your Amazon RDS DB instances running Oracle 12c. With the Oracle Label Security option, you can enforce regulatory compliance with a policy-based administration model, and ensure that an access to sensitive data is restricted to only users with the appropriate clearance level.