Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, high-performance container orchestration service that supports Docker containers and allows you to easily run and scale containerized applications on AWS. Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully-managed Docker container registry that makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images.

You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions. This increases the number of AWS Regions where AppStream 2.0 available to six. This expansion into two new AWS Regions enables you to deploy AppStream 2.0 closer to your users, providing them with a more responsive experience.

Suez and Thiess have filed a writ against Siemens in the Victorian Supreme Court, Australia, over the failure of a gas-insulated switchgear at the Victorian Desalination Plant (VDP), reports Victorian news outlet Herald Sun.

Saudi Arabia has an ambitious $530 million programme to build nine new desalination plants on the Red Sea coast within 18 months, the minister of environment, water and agriculture Abdulrahman Al-Fadhli has revealed.

Mmusi Maimane, leader of South Africa’s opposition party the Democratic Alliance, has slammed the national ministry of water and sanitation for failing in its duties, pointing out the high cost of building desalination plants.

Veolia has investment capacity of $200 million for power and water projects across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for 2018, regional chief executive Xavier Joseph has told Emirati news outlet The National.

 Israeli startup, Kado and South Korea’s Dongyang have teamed up to develop the world’s thinnest laptop charger. Kado is contributing its thin charging technology and collaborating with Dongyang to complete the development of laptop chargers, which will also become the world’s first foldable charger for laptops, says Kado. The joint work will take place at …

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TSMC is expected to break ground this week for the construction of its $15.7 billion 5nm fab in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), reports Digitimes. TSMC plans to run trial 5nm silicon in Q1 2019 and start volume production in 2020. In 2020, TSMC intends to break ground on a $25 billion 3nm fab, …

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Qualcomm has filed an application with Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) to pay its $782 million fine in instalments. The Taiwan FTC  imposed the fine on Qualcomm in October  for anti-trust violations aimed at preventing competition in the smartphone market. In what is seen as a quid pro quo for the fine, Qualcomm has broken off …

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Research by ABI Research predicts the spread of smart city technology will more than double from $25 billion in 2017 to $62 billion in 2026 and at an average growth rate of 11%. ABI Research identifies 12 key smart city technologies and verticals, led by smart meters and video surveillance and EV charging stations, micro-grids, …

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