Cornell Dubilier shows considerable initiative in setting aluminium electrolytics against banks of wet tantalum capacitors in high-reliability long-life applications

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A great deal of blather was generated earlier this week by the particularly obtuse remarks of the head of O2 UK who said wireless would be a better way to deliver broadband than fibre. Obviously the guy’s talking his book but, even so, most people would be ashamed of expressing such a view. It’s an …

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Stanley has introduced a tiny screw and thread pair (known as a micro-fastener) for waterproof and vibration-proof wearables and portables.

Read full article: Stanley introduces fastener for waterproof handhelds and wearables

The LED-based smart lighting saves energy, but the real value comes from insights the IoT system provides on facility utilization at the headquarters for standards body NEN. It’s the data, stupid.

Amazon API Gateway now supports three new features that make it easy to integrate APIs with AWS Lambda and HTTP endpoints. Previously, you needed to define each method and its integration behavior in API Gateway in order to integrate with backend endpoints. Now, you can route all traffic to a specific backend endpoint without having to apply any request or response mappings and transformations.

You can now easily setup your AWS Lambda Lambda function with catch-all endpoints, which can respond to any method or resource using the catch-all methods/resources and pass-through mappings from Amazon API Gateway. Learn more here.  

You can now send email directly from your RDS for Oracle databases by using the UTL_Mail package. To enable UTL_Mail for your DB instance, you need to create a new option group, or copy or modify an existing option group and add the option Oracle UTL_MAIL to it. You then need to associate this option group to your DB instance either by selecting the option while creating a new instance or while modifying an existing instance. Right now, we only support single attachments up to 32KB in size and only ASCII and EBCDIC character encodings. Amazon RDS supports UTL_Mail for the Oracle version 12.1.0.2.v5 and later, 12.1.0.1.v6 and later and 11.2.0.4.v9 and later. These versions include the July 2016 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU).  

You can now easily enable encryption for data at-rest and in-transit for Apache Spark, Apache Tez , and Apache Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon EMR. For encryption at-rest , you can encrypt data stored in Amazon S3 with the EMR File System (EMRFS) and data stored on your Amazon EMR cluster in the local file system on each node and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). For encryption in-transit , Amazon EMR will enable the open-source encryption features for Apache Spark, Apache Tez, and Apache Hadoop MapReduce.

This automated deployment was created by AWS solutions architects from the Quick Start reference team to help you add Linux bastion functionality to your AWS Cloud environment swiftly and easily, in about 5 minutes.

While Latin America is one of the world’s richest regions in water resources, approximately 37 million people don’t have access to safe supply of drinking water and nearly 110 million people don’t have sanitation facilities. Could the lifting of sanctions in Cuba help drive change in the region?