Today, Amazon WorkMail released two new features: an administrative SDK and AWS CloudTrail integration.

Today AWS Direct Connect has landed for the first time on the African continent with two new sites in Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa. In Cape Town, AWS Direct Connect is at the Teraco CT1 data center and in Johannesburg, at the Teraco JB1 data center. Both these AWS Direct Connect sites can be found under the EU West (Ireland) AWS region in the AWS Management Console. With global access enabled for AWS Direct Connect, these sites can reach AWS resources in any global AWS region. 

A task consists of a group of containers running together on a single host. You can now set a limit on the resources available to a task running on Amazon ECS. 

Converted Springfield Pumping Station to save the city $4.5 million annually in operating expenses.

Light made on CMOS chips using quantum tunnelling could be used for optical interconnect and chemical sensing

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A picture gallery from the after-show party, following the Elektra Awards 2017 dinner and awards presentation.

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Assuming no substantial rise in the volume of imports from Japan, America’s major competitor for US markets, the US electronics industry should break through the 10 billion dollar (£2,800 million) level of total business in 1961. So, 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s issue of April 5th 1961. The story continues: This …

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Delta and BMW i Ventures have made strategic investments in GaN Systems of Ottawa. GaN Systems plans to use the funding to expand global sales and accelerate product innovation. Today’s announcement follows previous investments from prominent backers including BMW i Ventures, BDC Capital, Chrysalix Venture Capital, Cycle Capital Management, RockPort Capital and Tsing Capital. “It’s …

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SEGGER has presented a new embOS port for the Open Source RISC-V CPU architecture. In addition to embOS, SEGGER offers emWin to construct user interfaces, emSSL, emSSH and emSecure to secure internet communications, cryprographic and security libraries for encryption, code signing and authentication (digital signatures), embOS/IP, emModbus, emUSB-Host and emUSB-Device communication stacks for Internet and …

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Sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will increase 35.6% to $55.9 billion in 2017, says SEMI, marking the first time that the semiconductor equipment market has exceeded the previous market high of  $47.7 billion set in 2000. In 2018, 7.5% growth is expected to result in sales of US$60.1 billion for the global semiconductor equipment …

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