Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to dynamically get the latest ECS-optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID when creating a cluster made up of EC2 instances.

AWS Glue updated its Apache Spark infrastructure to support Apache Spark 2.2.1. This allows you to take advantage of stability fixes and new features available in this version of Apache Spark.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) now supports AWS PrivateLink. This feature helps to protect your messages from internet traffic by enabling you to use Amazon SNS inside your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

AWS CloudFormation StackSets now allows you to create multiple roles in which your users can perform stack set operations in target accounts. This allows you to restrict specific sets of users from using stack set operations such as creating or updating stack sets in specific target accounts. Please see the documentation to learn more about creating multiple roles.

One year-old lithium-ion diagnostic startup Akkurate of Turku Finland, which specialises in the testing, optimising, and analysing of lithium batteries, has raised €500,000. Investors include Finnish Lifeline Ventures, Suffice International from Hong Kong and the Lappeenranta University of Technology investment company Green Campus Innovations.  The start-up was born out of Microsoft’s takeover of Nokia. “The …

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Toshiba’s new boss has an interesting dilemma. Should Toshiba stick to its word and flog its memory unit to Bain/Hynix for $18 billion? Or should it kick Bain/Hynix into the long grass on the legalistic pretext that the China competition guys  didn’t OK the deal by March 31st which was a contractual condition for the …

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The FPBB rail filter from Schurter is a 25 mm wide double-stage, single phase filter.  Space can be a scarce commodity on a panel, particularly panel designs in control cabinets for industrial machinery.  Densely populated interference generating components, such as switching power supplies or inverters, can further complicate design when high performance filters are required …

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Patent filings suggest there could be foldable smartphones from half a dozen or more vendors this year, reports Digitimes Research. According to Strategy Analytics, unit  shipments of foldable smartphones are expected to be 700,000 units in 2019, 30.4 million in 2021 and 50.1 million in 2023. Samsung, LG, Apple, Lenovo, ZTE and Oppo are all reported …

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NOISE  in transistors is a far more complex problem than in thermionic devices. So, 58 years ago, a story started in Electronics Weekly’s edition of November 2nd 1960. The story continues: Mullard Ltd. are working on the problem of specifying noise and identify ing it by parameters. “There is need for a relatively simple system …

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The EFLX4K eFPGA  FlexLogix IP core, both the Logic and DSP versions, have been fully validated on TSMC16FFC. Evaluation boards are available now that integrate the EFLX200K validation chip (a 7×7 array of EFLX 4K cores: 182K LUT4, 560 MACs, 1.4Mbit attached SRAM, PLL & PVT) for customers to test their RTL on real silicon. …

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