Learn about data acquisition from sensors and remote control with Intel’s IoT Kit

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A driverless car was tested in London yesterday as Nissan put a modified Leaf on the streets of the East End. The car was said to have gone at speeds up to 50mph on local streets and main roads. The Leaf uses cameras, radar and lasers to figure out where it is in relation to …

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Mobile World Congress brought a demo of driverless cars controlled by 5G signals staged by Telefonica, Ericsson and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology KTH. The companies showed how they could control driverless cars on a test track 70km away in Tarragona. Telefonica’s Javier Lorca said that, for the moment, using cellular signals to control driverless …

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With location-based services still stuck on the launchpad, the company’s new “Location Lab” reaches out to data and app developers. Meanwhile, Philips finally acknowledges that Bluetooth, not just VLC, can light the way.

AWS Organizations offers policy-based management for multiple AWS accounts and is now generally available for all customers. With Organizations, you can create groups of accounts and then apply policies to those groups. Organizations enables you to centrally manage policies across multiple accounts, without requiring custom scripts and manual processes.

Today, we are introducing a new EC2 Spot Advisor Console to guide customers in using Spot for common applications, and Health Checks for Spot fleet.

Amazon DynamoDB Time-to-Live (TTL) enables you to automatically delete expired items from your tables, at no additional cost. Now, you no longer need to deal with the complexity and cost of manually scanning your tables and deleting the items that you don’t want to retain. Instead, you can simply specify an attribute containing the timestamp when each item in your table should expire and DynamoDB will delete the items for you automatically. You can also view and archive items deleted via TTL using DynamoDB Streams .

You can now use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to enforce encrypted connections between your client applications and your Amazon RDS DB instances running Microsoft SQL Server. SSL support is available in all AWS regions for all supported SQL Server editions. To see the supported editions and versions of Microsoft SQL Server, please visit our documentation page.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for February 27, 2017.

New Jersey American Water announces another round of investments in service areas.