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Autonomous vehicles are to be insured under normal policies in the UK. This was one of the government proposals announced in the Queen’s Speech. According to the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), this is an important step forward which will ultimately improve road safety and reduce congestion. But the IET warned the Government that …

Autonomous vehicles get insurance boost in the UK

Digi-Key Electronics has expanded its distribution partnership with ARM to include all of Asia. In addition to expanding the reach of the partnership, ARM’s latest Keil MDK Version 5.20 software development kit for ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers is also available through Digi-Key. Keil MDK includes the µVision IDE, C/C++ compiler, debugger, Software Component management, and the CMSIS …

Digi-Key circles the world with ARM’s processor tools

Imagination is working with the Debian Project to accelerate development of the open source Debian operating system for its 64-bit MIPS processors. As part of its work with the project, Imagination is providing the project several MIPS64 processor based platforms, its calls SDNA-7130, for development and evaluation purposes. The SDNA-7130 (Software Defined Network Appliance) platforms …

Imagination goes with Debian OS for MIPS64 processors

ARM today announced the first multicore, 64-bit ARMv8-A processor test chip based on TSMC’s 10FinFET process technology. Simulation benchmarks show impressive power and efficiency gains relative to TSMC’s 16FinFET+ process technology, which is currently used to implement chips powering many of today’s leading premium smartphones. The successful validation of the test chip (tape out completed …

ARM multi-core v8 test chip fabbed on TSMC 10nm finfet process

IRT Nanoelec in Grenoble has integrated a III-V/silicon laser and silicon Mach Zehnder modulator to transmit at 25Gbit/s down a single 10km optical fibre, claiming this to be a first. “This transmission rate usually is achieved using an external source, over a 10km single-mode fibre,” said the R&D organisation, which is predicting increased bandwidth and reliability …

MEMS photonic integration opens door to 25Gbit/s

mindSHIFT Technologies says the intelligence in the Cisco/Cree PoE system will cut electricity consumption far more than ordinary LEDs would.

Starting today, you can use tags to manage and track your Amazon WorkSpaces. Tags let you categorize your Amazon WorkSpaces so you can easily identify their purpose and track costs accordingly. For example, you could use tags to identify all the Amazon WorkSpaces for a particular department, project, application, vendor, or use case. Once you have tagged your Amazon WorkSpaces, you can use the AWS Tag Editor console (starting in June 2016) to filter and search by specific tags, and obtain usage and cost details for particular tags by signing up to get your AWS account bill with tag key values included.

Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) can now automatically scale container-based applications by dynamically growing and shrinking the number of tasks run by an Amazon ECS service.

Starting today, you can share your Amazon Aurora snapshots with another AWS account, or make your snapshots publicly available. You can privately share your database snapshots with up to 20 AWS accounts by selecting “Share Snapshots” on the RDS console and choosing the “Private” option. You can also make your snapshot available to all AWS users by selecting the “Public” option. Access to the publically or privately shared snapshots can be revoked by you at any time. Recipient of a shared snapshot can copy it to their account, or restore it directly to an Aurora cluster.