Amazon EC2 Systems Manager now supports parameter hierarchy, tagging, and notifications, available through the Parameter Store capability.

AWS CodeBuild now provides notifications when your software builds change their state (start, succeed, or fail). This makes it easy for you to track the status of your builds eliminating the need to set up API polls. Now, you can integrate the notifications with Amazon Simple Notification Service and Amazon Cloud Watch enabling you to easily monitor, log, and set alarms for these notifications. Learn how to configure CodeBuild notifications by visiting here .

Water reuse is growing rapidly as part of the water management mix, and now we want your views of this fast-growing sector.

Engie has bought 40 per cent of National Central Cooling Company PJSC (Tabreed) from Mubadala Investment Company, becoming its key shareholder alongside Mubadala, which retains 42 per cent.

Silego, the configurable mixed signal specialist, has brought out a single-input, dual-output power splitter with 130V surge protection. It is designed for mid- and high-end smartphones and tablet PCs. In these applications, system-level, over-voltage protection (OVP) has become a standard requirement. Its  OVP response time protects sensitive downstream components from possible damage. Even though designed …

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Intel is to sponsor the Olympics in a bid to promote VR which will probably cost Intel around $100 million. “We’ll allow people online to feel like they are there,” said Intel CEO Brian Krzanich (pictured)!0. The Olympics have their own internet-based Olympic Channel and the IOC has been keen to make it mire appealing …

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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has revealed plans to recruit 1,000 electronics and software engineers as part of a huge recruitment drive.

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4DS Memory, the Australian ReRAM specialist, says it has improved its ReRAM through architectural changes which now make its read times comparable to DRAM. 4DS calls its memory Interface Switching ReRAM and claims it needs minimal error correction. That delivers the faster read speed. 4DS has scaled its technology to 40nm and is now focussed …

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Harting has developed a way to mix electrical and compressed air up to 10bar in the same connector, aiming it at production lines. The pneumatic module (‘Pneumatic Module Metal’) is rated to be plugged and unplugged at least 10,000 times. “It means that users can exploit the benefits of compressed air technology in frequently converted production …

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With the LPC84x family of 30MHz ARM Cortex M0+ processors, NXP is pitching for entry-level IoT design-ins. “Upon power-up, its ‘fast access initialisation memory’allows the clocks to be started in a low frequency mode, keeping start-up current consumption to a minimum. Additionally, its input and output ports can come up immediately and in its desired …

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