Innovate UK is to invest up to £4m in new projects that help to speed up the use of compound semiconductors.

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Taiwanese e-paper display manufacturer Pervasive Displays has developed an e-paper display drive technology that dramatically reduces power consumption by only refreshing selected pixels and not the whole display. Instead of updating the entire display image when part of it changes, this partial update only refreshes the pixels that need to be changed. A partial update …

Read full article: Taiwanese firm cuts power in e-paper displays

Thanks to Trusted Reviews for this one. If LG’s FH4A8FDH2N washer/dryer has not got enough built in cleaning programmes, you can download more. Amazing. It looks like the downloadable programmes are via NFC and a phone. Says LG: Tag On lets users download new wash programs to a smartphone, such as Wool, Baby Care or Cold …

Read full article: The internet of washing machines

Q: What, in 1938, was Buckminster Fuller describing here? “A self-balancing, 28-jointed adapter-base biped; an electro-chemical reduction-plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries Jor subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries; millions of warning signal, railroad and conveyor systems; crushers and …

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Cree’s lighting division has created a range of high-end high-efficiency LED replacements for incandescent light bulbs. The 100W replacement, for example, achieves a highly creditable 100 lm/W – delivering 1,650 lm from 16.5W. What makes this remarkable this is the 2,700K (warm) white version, with a CRI of 85, and the bulb is dimmable – …

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Cree has essentially supplanted its entire SSL replacement lamp portfolio with new products that deliver a longer warranty and lifetime and generally higher-quality lighting.

Tunable LED lighting in resident rooms and in corridors delivered generally positive results in optimizing sleep/wake cycles for inhabitants of a senior living center located in Sacramento, CA.

Starting today, you can set access-level policies on AWS Service Catalog post-launch actions. Previously, users would have access either to any provisioned product in the account or only to those which they themselves launched. Now, you can customize the access level for each action, with support for user, role, and account levels. This feature allows users to be granted access to view, update, terminate, and manage provisioned products created under their role or the account to which they are logged in. For more information about policies for these actions, see the AWS Service Catalog documentation including the example policies .

Amazon Kinesis Agent is a pre-built Java application that offers an easy way to collect and ingest data into Amazon Kinesis services. The agent monitors log files you specify and continuously sends new data to Amazon Kinesis Streams and Amazon Kinesis Firehose.

Today, we are launching Earth on AWS, a new landing page that highlights large geospatial datasets made openly available in the cloud as AWS Public Datasets as well as resources to learn how to build planetary-scale applications in the cloud with open geospatial data. In addition to previously launched, Landsat, NEXRAD, and SpaceNet datasets, new datasets made up of high resolution aerial imagery, global event information, and global elevation data are now available. We are also opening a call for proposals from researchers to receive promotional Cloud Credits for Research to work with Earth observation data on AWS. Learn more at https://aws.amazon.com/earth.