The Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) command line interface (CLI) is now available as version 1.0.0. 

Aquam Corporation has secured $26 million in growth capital that will go toward further product development and geographic expansion of the company’s key businesses.

Unique, pure form of lignin works as an abundantly available raw material for making high-quality activated carbons.

Apple’s planned billion dollar Irish data centre is under question. The Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar (pictured)  says Tim Cook will no longer commit to it. Varadkar says his government will do whatever’s necessary to get it built. However planning permission has proved hard to get. The data centre was to have been built on the …

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TSMC’s annual sports day saw its 38,000,employees share US$15 million in bonuses. Last year they shared $13 million between 36,000 which worked out at $400 each. The traditional  sports day cash gift is in addition to year-end and quarterly bonuses. Morris Chang told the sports day participants that their energy gave him faith in the …

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Marvell is reported to be in ‘advanced talks’ to buy Cavium. The price is said to be around $14 billion. Cavium has a market cap of around $4.5 billion; Marvell’s market cap is $9 billion. Last year, Cavium lost $146 million on sales of $603 million and Marvell lost $811 million on sales of $2.7 …

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In five years time, Honda hopes to have a car which will charge in 15 minutes, reports the Nikkei. Currently, even using high-speed chargers, EVs take at least half an hour to reach an 80% charge rate. Honda’s plan is to launch, in 2022, cars which can go 240km on a 15 minute charges. Japanese …

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Infineon has available a five output Point of Load (POL) digital voltage regulator for FPGAs, ASICs, and other multi-rail power systems. The IRPS5401has been developed as a fully integrated PMIC solution that replaces multiple regulators with a single device in a compact 7 mm x 7 mm 56 pin QFN package. It is suitable for current and future …

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Readers of the Gadget Master blog are welcome to vote on this one – it’s the Consumer Product Innovation category in the Elektra 2017 Awards.

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We have three TI DLP LightCrafter Display 2000 Evaluation Modules to give away

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