CES 2017 is underway in Las Vegas and there has already been a lot of auto-related news, and here’s an an Android specific automotive angle from Panasonic.

Read full article: Panasonic adopts Android 7.0 for in-vehicle infotainment system

Once again my eye has been off the ball, as I have only just realised that CadSoft’s excellent schematic capture and PCB layout tool Eagle is now available to run on Linux and Mac OS X as well as Windows. The restricted maker version, Eagle Express, is available free for non-commercial use and, having used …

Read full article: Catching up: Eagle PCB now runs on Linux

Back in 1950, the US National Bureau of Standards initiated a Navy project called Tinkertoy aimed at producing smaller, automatically-assembled electronic systems. Silk screen printing techniques were used to form passive components on ceramic wafers 22 mm square and 1.5mm thick. The printed circuits on the wafers connected the components to riser wires leading to …

Read full article: Keeping Up

There was a demonstration of the first real-time, multi-target location tracking using the LoRaWAN low-power, wide-area network protocol at CES 2017 this week. A group of firms from the LoRA Alliance, promoting the wide-areas IoT wireless standard, including STMicroelectronics, myDevices and Senet, carried out the demonstration. It included LoRaWAN-supported radio technology and automotive-navigation chips from ST, custom application …

Read full article: CES: ST joins Senet for LoRa IoT network build

AWS Service Catalog allows organizations on AWS to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS resources. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS Service Catalog allows you to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services, and helps you to achieve consistent governance and meet your compliance requirements, while enabling users to quickly deploy only the approved IT services that they need.

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AWS Batch is now available for all customers. AWS Batch enables developers, scientists, and engineers to easily and efficiently run hundreds of thousands of batch computing jobs on AWS. AWS Batch dynamically provisions the optimal quantity and type of compute resources (e.g., CPU or memory optimized instances) based on the volume and specific resource requirements of the batch jobs submitted. With AWS Batch, there is no need to install and manage batch computing software or server clusters that run your jobs, allowing you to focus on analyzing results and solving problems. AWS Batch plans, schedules, and executes your batch computing workloads across the full range of AWS compute services and features, such as Amazon EC2 and Spot Instances.

There is no additional charge for AWS Batch. You only pay for the AWS resources (e.g. EC2 instances) you create to store and run your batch jobs. AWS Batch is available in the US East (N. Virginia) region.

To learn more, please visit the AWS Batch Product Page.

Israel – Russian transport company OTEKO has commissioned IDE Technologies to deliver a small scale desalination plant to help with coal dust suppression near the Black Sea…

Since 1979, FRC Systems has been an industry leader in dissolved air flotation (DAF) systems.

Projects recognized for outstanding design in precast/prestressed concrete construction honored with PCI Design Awards of Excellence.

The 100-year-old stone sewer line discharges about 12 million gallons of rainwater and sewage each year into the Ohio River.