Europe has the know-how to be the world leader in digital healthcare, Professor Shahid Ali of Salford University told the European Nanoelectronics Forum 2016.

Read full article: NANO16: Europe can be world leader in digital healthcare

The European Nanoelectronics Forum 2016 in Rome today raised an issue which applies to the entire workings of the EU government – how do we explain to the general public the usefulness of what we do? “There is concern about what policy makers do without involving the general public,” said Ben Ruck, Chair of ECSEL, …

Read full article: NANO16: EU Angst At Communicating Achievements

That awful sight of the SUV swaying as it careers towards you with the driver chatting on the phone, or of cars weaving across lanes as the drivers compose text messages could be a thing of the past as US regulators start to get involved. If they do, laws may follow and, if laws follow …

Read full article: Stopping The Motorist Texters And Chatterers

Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond outlined in the Autumn Statement the creation of an National Productivity Investment Fund to invest in the nationals digital infrastructure. But it will also see £100m invested in the development of infrastructure for autonomous vehicles, the much talked about ‘driverless cars’. The Chancellor ear-marked £390m for transport technology, including £80m for charging infrastructure for electric vehicles …

Read full article: Autumn Statement: Chancellor bets on driverless car tech

Plessey has added to its Orion family of beam forming modules with +/-7.5° and +/-25° (15° and 50° FWHM) options.

Read full article: LuxLive: Wider and narrower Orion beams from Plessey

The smart lighting startup hands over IoT hardware and software to three vendors, with more to follow soon. Gooee-enabled products are expected to hit the market in 2017.

Today we are announcing the SaaS Connectors feature for AWS Mobile Hub. SaaS Connectors make it easy to securely access data in 3rd party enterprise SaaS applications from your mobile apps.

Starting today you can launch t2.medium instances when using Amazon Aurora in addition to the R3 class instances previously available. Using t2.medium instances of Amazon Aurora will be a cost effective option for your smaller workloads like dev/test, still giving you the option to use larger R3 class instances for production deployment.  

You can now use Managed Updates for your single-instance environments in AWS Elastic Beanstalk. With Managed Updates, Elastic Beanstalk automatically updates your environment to the latest version of the underlying platform running your application during specified maintenance windows. Previously, you could only use Managed Updates for Load Balanced, auto scaling environments. To get started, you must enable Managed Updates using the Elastic Beanstalk console, EB CLI, or API.

We are excited to announce new edge locations in the cities of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Berlin, Germany. We have also added a fourth edge location in London, England.