Fibre reinforced polymer wind turbine blades are impossible, or at least expensive, to recycle, according to German research organisation Fraunhofer IWU. Which is why it is having a go at making steel ones, of which 90% can be recycled. “In smaller installations, the greater weight of the steel blades is inconsequential. As installations get larger, …

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Roll-up glass is being developed for organic electronics. The bendable flexible material can be transferred directly from the melt to a roller for storage

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With Apple, ARM, Arduino and Amazon all figuring prominently, along with RISC-V and semiconductors Soviet-Style…

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Here’s a good one for a Friday afternoon. Watch a maker try and build his own DIY iPhone 6s 16GB.

Read full article: Video: DIY iPhone construction

1985 was a tough year for the US chip industry. Japan ate its lunch in memory and all but two – TI and Micron – of the US DRAM manufacturers got out of the business. Intel was luckier than most. Although, in 1986, it was to record its first loss for 15 years, Intel had …

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Check out the latest Arduino MKR board, combining a Zero with SigFox low-power comms connectivity ideal for IoT designs.

Read full article: DevBoard Watch: Arduino MKR adds SigFox for IoT comms

You can use the new Amazon Redshift query monitoring rules  feature to set metrics-based performance boundaries for workload management (WLM) queues, and specify what action to take when a query goes beyond those boundaries. For example, for a queue that’s dedicated to short running queries, you might create a rule that aborts queries that run for more than 60 seconds. To track poorly designed queries, you might have another rule that logs queries that contain nested loops. We also provide pre-defined rule templates in the Amazon Redshift management console to get you started.

This new Quick Start automatically deploys a Microsoft SQL Server 2014 environment that receives its storage and data management capabilities from a NetApp ONTAP Cloud system running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now allows you to enable Internet access for your image builder and fleet instances without the need for advanced network configuration. Providing Internet access to your instances allows your applications to access online resources such as application updates and licensing services, and your users to access documents, tutorials, and other information from the Internet.

We are excited to announce a new edge location for Amazon CloudFront in Atlanta, Georgia. Each new edge location helps improve performance and availability for end users of your application. This is our third edge location in the Atlanta area, bringing the total number of CloudFront locations to 85 (including 74 points of presence and 11 regional edge cache locations). To see a full list of all Amazon CloudFront locations, please visit our website here. Meet with the CloudFront team at one of our upcoming webinars.