It would be remiss indeed of Gadget Master not to mention the new Raspberry Pi Zero W, a wireless-enabled version of the almost cheap-as chips Zero.

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Antenova, the Hatfield antenna developer, is sampling an antenna, called Latona,  for the new Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) standard which was ratified last summer. The antenna measures 20 x 11 x 1.6mm, and is built to a novel design which allows it to perform well within a device, whilst being easy to integrate onto a …

Read full article: Antenova sampling antenna for NB-IOT

Semiconductor unit shipments totaled 868.8 billion in 2016 and are forecast to top one trillion units in 2018, says IC Insights.

Read full article: Semi units to hit a trillion next year

You can now configure custom domains for your APIs on Amazon API Gateway using SSL/TLS certificates provisioned and managed by AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). Now, you can request a certificate from ACM and associate it with your API in minutes using the API Gateway Console, APIs, and CLI/SDKs. Previously, you needed to procure and upload your own SSL certificates to API Gateway in order to configure a custom domain for your APIs.

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) can now automatically warm up your new dedicated IP addresses before you can send a high volume of emails. Dedicated IP addresses are Amazon SES IP addresses that are reserved exclusively for your email sending. 

AWS Trusted Advisor now provides checks for ten new Service Limits for various AWS services including Amazon RDS, AWS IAM, and AWS CloudFormation. Trusted Advisor Service Limit Checks provide visibility to your current level of AWS service utilization and service limits. Trusted Advisor now also provides a new check for Amazon Aurora DB Availability which checks that your Aurora DB cluster has both private and public instances to help you ensure that your deployments are fault-tolerant. Finally, Trusted Advisor now provides new checks for EC2 Windows for the EC2Config Agent and the EC2 Windows PV Driver version which helps to ensure your EC2 Windows instances have the latest versions installed.

Amazon EC2Rescue is a convenient, straightforward, GUI-based troubleshooting tool that can be run on your Amazon EC2 Windows Server instances to troubleshoot operating system-level issues and collect advanced logs and configuration files for further analysis. EC2Rescue provides capabilities that help you simplify and expedite the troubleshooting of EC2 Windows instances. You can use EC2Rescue in either Current Instance or Offline Instance Modes to perform a variety of diagnostic and troubleshooting tasks. EC2Rescue is available now. For more information on EC2Rescue visit our documentation page.

The desalination facility in Carlsbad, Calif., needs little in the way of introduction and has once again been recognized for excellence. 

The new chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is pulling no punches about changes in store for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Collection of books, etc. dealing with water issues.