You can now use upgraded versions of Apache HBase (1.3.0), Presto (0.166), Apache Zeppelin (0.7.0), Apache Phoenix (4.9.0), and Apache Flink (1.2.0) on Amazon EMR release 5.4.0 . These new versions of supported applications have various improvements and bug fixes. Additionally, you can now create Amazon EMR clusters with R4 instances, the next generation of Amazon EC2 Memory Optimized instances. Amazon EMR has also expanded support for M4 (General Purpose) and C4 (Compute Optimized) instances to AWS GovCloud.

Atlantic and Cape May Counties are the latest to get funding.

 

Drainage engineers in London and the Thames Valley are being sent into an Igloo before they can go down a sewer…

 

The Town of Onoway said that the bright color was caused by routine flushing and should not cause concern. 

 

French company SUEZ will acquire GE Water for €3.2 billion…

 

Flint water treatment plant expected by 2019.

 

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The average distance a Google query travels is 2400km, says a new book called Silicon Photonics by Daryl Innis and Roy Rubenstein. It’s a sensational illustration of the fabulous demands being put on data transport. With those demands getting heavier and Moore’s Law limping, how can the networks cope? Optical transport is one answer, and …

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Fab equipment spending will reach a record $46 billion this year, says SEMI. Next year SEMI expects the record to be broken again. These record-busting years are part of three consecutive years of growth (2016, 2017 and 2018), which has not occurred since the mid-1990s. Eleven fabs are expected to spend over $1 billion each …

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Thanks to IC Insights for this one – the top ten pure-play foundries:

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