A team of scientists from the UK and Australia has cut the growing time of wheat by 50% by using LED horticultural lighting.

Today, we are introducing volume-based tiered pricing for Vended logs in CloudWatch Logs, effective January 1, 2018. Vended logs are logs that are natively published by AWS services on behalf of the customer. VPC Flow logs is the first Vended log type that will benefit from this tiered model. However, more AWS Service log types will be added to Vended Logs in the future. 

We are excited to announce that Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs now support OpenGL 4.3. To activate OpenGL 4.3 support for existing Elastic GPUs, simply stop and start your instances, and a new driver will be automatically installed in your instance to support OpenGL 4.3. 

Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) region, increasing the number of AWS Regions where WorkSpaces is available to nine. This expansion into a new AWS Region allows you to provision WorkSpaces closer to your users and data in the cloud, providing a more responsive experience. You can quickly add or remove WorkSpaces to meet changing demand, without the added cost and complexity of on-premises VDI infrastructure.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into data stores and analytics tools. It can capture, transform, and load streaming data into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, and Splunk, enabling near real-time analytics with existing business intelligence tools you are already using today. 

Xilinx is making available an automotive qualified Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family, enabling development of safety critical ADAS and Autonomous Driving Systems. The family is qualified according to AEC-Q100 test specifications with full ISO 26262 ASIL-C level certification. The product integrates a  64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 and dual-core ARM Cortex-R5 based processing system (PS) and Xilinx …

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Huawei has been excluded from the US smartphone market. US politicians told the politically acquiescent FCC to lean on AT&T which had planned to sell Huawei phones in the US. The politicians said they had “long been concerned about Chinese espionage in general, and Huawei’s role in that espionage in particular”. Whether this is the …

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The Mouser Electronics-sponsored Dragon Racing team heads to Morocco for the Formula E Marrakesh E-Prix

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Ford is to spend $11 billion on EVs by 2022 with the aim of having 40 EV models – 16 all-electric and 24 hybrid – by then, reports Reuters. “We’re all in on this and we’re taking our mainstream vehicles, our most iconic vehicles, and we’re electrifying them,” says Chairman Bill Ford, “if we want …

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