The toughest UK university to get into to do computer science is Cambridge, says the Complete University Guide. To get to Cambridge to read computer science requires an average of 646 UCAS points. Imperial College is next hardest requiring 545 points followed, at No.3, by Durham with 517, UCL at No.4 with 511, St Andrews …

Toughest Universities For Computer Science

According to Publitek, Arrow Electronics, the distributor, is about to buy EE Times. This seems a strange move because it will, on the face of it, imperil the paper’s reputation for impartial judgment. Andy Grove, when CEO of Intel, once had the notion of buying a trade press title but was dissuaded from doing so …

Arrow Said To Be Buying EETimes

Due to popular demand, the entry deadline for the Elektra Awards 2016 has been extended by two weeks. You now have until Friday 17 June to enter.

Elektra Awards 2016: Deadline extended

2015 industrial semiconductor revenues rose, but by less than 1%, says IHS. The market was worth $41.9 billion. In 2014, the market grew 11.5% and in 2013 it grew 9.8% in 2013. While the gradual acceleration in the US economy continued to lift industrial equipment demand in 2015. Broad-based growth in industrial electronics gained momentum …

Industrial semiconductor market grew in 2015

French finance minister Michel Sapin says that France will not “do deals like Britain” with Google on tax. Sapin says that Google will have to pay its full tax liability on its 2014 French revenues of €225.4 million. Apparently Google has paid only €5 million tax on the 2014 figure. France reckons Google owes €1.6 …

France won’t do UK-style tax deal with Google, says finance minister

It hopes to widen its connected street lighting beyond the central business district in the coastal metropolis of over 15 million people.

Amazon VPC Flow Logs is now available in the Beijing (China) region. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from your VPC. Once enabled for a particular VPC, VPC subnet or Elastic Network Interface (ENI), relevant network traffic will be logged to CloudWatch Logs for storage and analysis by your own applications or third-party tools. Additionally, metrics can be created to identify trends and patterns. 

You can now choose AWS OpsWorks as a deployment provider in your software release pipelines modeled in AWS CodePipeline. This lets you automate the release of updated application code and Chef cookbooks to your applications and instances running in OpsWorks. 

Starting today, you can now use the new Amazon EC2 Spot Jenkins plug-in to help you save up to 90% off Jenkins infrastructure costs, compared to when running them on Amazon EC2. This plug-in makes it easier to save money with EC2 Spot instances, by allowing you to configure Jenkins to automatically scale a fleet of Spot instances up or down depending on the number jobs to be completed. To learn more and get started, download the plug-in .  

Data Warehousing on AWS is a new three-day course that is designed for database architects, database administrators, database developers, and data analysts/scientists. It introduces you to concepts, strategies, and best practices for designing a cloud-based data warehousing solution using Amazon Redshift. This course demonstrates how to collect, store, and prepare data for the data warehouse by using other AWS services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EMR, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon S3. Additionally, this course demonstrates how you can use business intelligence tools to perform analysis on your data. Organizations who are looking to get more out of their data by implementing a Data Warehousing solution or expanding their current Data Warehousing practice are encouraged to sign up.