Moore’s Law has been declared dead before. Progress may be slowing, but can new materials save it?

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Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to add or drop Linux capabilities to containers through the use of Docker’s cap-add and cap-drop flags. Linux capabilities give fine grained access control to processes without granting them root access to a system. 

The Amazon CloudFront team is excited to announce the expansion of their Edge locations into a new city, Boston, MA! In addition to this new city, a third Edge location is now live in Seattle, Washington. Both of these new Edge locations continue to improve CloudFront’s performance making your end user’s experience faster and more reliable. 

The 12-inch valve will regulate wastewater pouring from the Gold King Mine in Colorado.

The SEMI billings report for August showed sales of $2.18 billion which was 3.9% down on July’s $2.27 billion and 27.7% better  than the August 2016 level if $1.71 billion. “Equipment billings in August declined relative to July, signaling a pause in this year’s extraordinary growth,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI, “nonetheless …

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The EU has come up with three ways to tax the US tech giants: a tax on sales; a levy on ads; a withholding tax on payments to the companies. The EU is now looking at imposing one of these three options unilaterally instead of in agreement with other countries. “The EU must prepare to …

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Newport Wafer Fab, which started in 1982 as Inmos’ UK volume production fab, has been sold as a going concern.

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The technology driving the move towards autonomous vehicles will change more than just cars and lorries, writes Richard Wilson. The government’s ambitious plan to explore the running of convoys of semi-autonomous lorries on UK motorways took everyone by surprise. Not least because autonomous vehicle technology is still very much in the development phase. So can …

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The new Apple iPhones include some clever new tech that serves no purpose at all, believes Josh Brooks.

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Moortec, the developer of silicon IP for monitoring chip performance, has opened a new UK headquarters on the Plymouth Science Park. Moortec’s IP monitors on-chip parameters such as process, voltage and temperature (PVT) in CMOS devices fabbed on 40nm down to 7nm process technologies. In this way designers can optimise chip performance. Ramsay Allen, v-p …

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