The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a UK-developed system that can detect and disable unwanted drones near airports. Known as AUDS (anti-(UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle)) defence system), it is the work of a trio of companies: Blighter Surveillance Systems, Chess Dynamics and Enterprise Control Systems, and will be supported in the US by Liteye Systems. …
Earth Comes First
Whatever his hard-driven employees may think of him, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is an interesting guy. “All heavy industry will be moved off Earth,” he told a meeting yesterday, “Earth will be zoned residential and light industrial.” From being a bookseller, Bezos has branched out into space travel among other things. He sees the reason …
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PCB-Pool sells DIY re-flow oven
It transpires that I am a bit behind the times here, in discovering that PCB-Pool – the company (also known as Beta Layout) that will make single pcbs and small batches of pcbs – also sells a low-cost re-flow oven so that small companies, hobbyists and makers can solder their own components. Like many such …
The Big IC Prize
Intel’s data centre boss evp Diane Bryant tells The Nikkei that the ARM-based server IC vendors cannot match Intel in resources for server chip design and process technology development. There are, says Bryant, 16 vendors of ARM-based data centre ICs. “We have over 20,000 silicon engineers designing those products, and we have over 20,000 process …
Specialists such as Swiss company Mivune emerge to make lights smart
As lighting connects to the Internet, “smart building” software can combine it with other systems and control it, as Zumtobel has discovered. It can help store the data, too.
AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Big Data & Analytics
We recognize how important it is for APN Partners to learn how AWS solutions can solve customer business needs. To this end, we’ve expanded our AWS Solutions Training for Partners with a second topic on Big Data & Analytics. This workshop is designed to help business professionals at APN Consulting Partner firms understand and address big data and analytics challenges faced by small-medium and enterprise businesses. We cover AWS best practices and case studies, and discuss how to address customer pain points with AWS big data and analytics solutions. This free, one day workshop compliments and extends concepts from the Big Data & Analytics e-learning and AWS Business Professional, which are both free, online courses available to all APN Partners via the APN Portal.
Alces Flight: Effortless HPC is Born (Finally)
Amazon RDS Now Supports MariaDB 10.1
Starting today, customers can launch MariaDB version 10.1 instances on Amazon RDS. They can also upgrade their existing Amazon RDS for MariaDB database instances from version 10.0 to 10.1 using either the console or API.
Standardized Architecture for NIST-based Assurance Frameworks on the AWS Cloud: Quick Start Reference Deployment
This major update to the NIST 800-53 Quick Start (published earlier this year) deploys a standardized environment that helps support additional NIST-based security requirements on the AWS cloud. Specifically, it helps organizations with workloads that fall in scope for any of the following:
- National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) SP 800-53 (Revision 4)
- NIST SP 800-171
- The OMB Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) Initiative – FedRAMP Overlay (pilot)
- The DoD Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (SRG)