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Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, has launched a range of dual-die magnetic latch and switch sensors aimed at automotive applications like transmission, power steering, braking and locks/latches, represent a major advance in magnetic sensing technology. By integrating two ICs into a single package, Melexis can provide the redundant operation that is crucial to meet …
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Too much can be a negative. Look at Caligula doing crazier and crazier stuff to find a new thrill. Today’s Emperors – Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and Google co-founder Sergey Brin are building, respectively, the world’s biggest plane and the world’s biggest airship. Allen’s twin fuselage, six-engine ‘Stratolaunch’ is 238 feet long, 50 feet tall …
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Snapchat, the messaging app, is to sell its camera-equipped glasses in Europe. After the demise of Google Glass it was thought people found the idea of glasses which record video and post it on-line were too intrusive to be popular. Snapchat, now re-naming itself as simply ‘Snap’, thinks differently and is putting them on sale …
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An Intel-sponsored study has made some multi-trillion dollar forecasts for the driverless car industry. The industry will be worth $7 trillion in annual revenues by 2050, says the report. 43% of that – $3 trillion -.is expected to come from business use of mobility-as-service. 55% of that – $3.7 trillion – would come from consumer …
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The billionaire backer behind EV maker Faraday Future, Jia Yueting, is feeling the pinch, leaving the company to try and raise alternative cash. Faraday plans to raise $1 billion, reports Bloomberg, and is targetting sovereign wealth funds. The company built what it claims is the world’s fastest EV – the 1050 hp FF91. Faraday is …
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It’s time for an overhaul, from sales and marketing to internal systems to end user relations, an Osram specialist says.
Your analytics and search applications can now benefit from support for Elasticsearch 5.3 and Kibana 5.3 in Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Elasticsearch is a popular search and analytics engine for log analytics, full text search, application monitoring, and more. Amazon Elasticsearch Service delivers Elasticsearch’s easy-to-use APIs and real-time capabilities along with the availability, scalability, and security required by production workloads.
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) has introduced AWS X-Ray support. You can now configure the X-Ray tracing mode for your Lambda functions within your SAM template. X-Ray helps you analyze and debug distributed applications. With X-Ray, you can identify the root cause of performance issues and errors in your Lambda functions. Learn more in our documentation .
Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server now allows you to easily stop and start your database instances. This makes it easy and affordable to use databases for development and test purposes, where the database is not required to be running all of the time.
AWS has expanded its HIPAA Compliance Program to include Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration , AWS WAF, and AWS Shield as HIPAA eligible Services. If you have an executed Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with AWS, you can now use Amazon CloudFront to accelerate the delivery of protected health information (PHI), Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration for faster transfers of PHI to and from Amazon S3, AWS WAF to protect your web applications from common web exploits, and AWS Shield to safeguard your web applications running on AWS from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Information on HIPAA eligible services on AWS can be found at our HIPAA Compliance page.