Generation-2 D-Series LEDs hit efficacy of 160 lm/W and include a variety of options in color performance and CCT including Samsung’s Vivid technology.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports creation and management of custom platforms to provide you with greater control over your Elastic Beanstalk instance and environment configurations. 

You can now monitor and track the time that records spend in Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB streams before being processed by your AWS Lambda functions. Using the new IteratorAge metric, you can easily detect delays in stream processing and create alarms that help you efficiently monitor your stream-based operation’s health and performance. The IteratorAge metric is now available as a default metric which is free of charge. It is viewable in the Lambda console’s monitoring tab. 

We are excited to announce the release of Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.8, which includes 234 new improvements, fixes, and features to Amazon’s free, cross-platform 3D engine that enables you to create the highest-quality games, connect games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans with Twitch. 

Globalfoundries announces the availability of PDKs for its 45nm RF SOI to support next mmWave beam forming applications in future 5G base stations and smartphones.

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Connecting millions of electronic devices is creating significant security risks, and designing in security from day one is becoming ever-more crucial.

Read full article: Secure Systems Summit 2017 – Designing in security

Ultrahaptics, announces a collaboration with HARMAN to incorporate mid-air gesture haptic feedback technology into a range of infotainment and audio systems.

Read full article: Ultrahaptics teams up with HARMAN for automotive haptic-touch

Here they are – The Top Ten Tech Villains Of 2016: Lithium-Ion Hackers Fake News Inflated Claims Mobile Network Connectivity Value-Destructive M&A Predatory China Decline In Blue-Skies R&D IPO Dearth Cost Of Scaling

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A friend brought me a neat book: Quantum Mechanics (A Ladybird Expert Book), written by physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili. While it is never going to teach you anything analytical, it will give you some about what the subject is, who the pioneers of quantum theory were, and how they interacted. I had no idea that …

Read full article: Book review: Ladybird book of Quantum Mechanics

The next killer App will be holding up your phone to a face in a crowd and being told who it is. Would you object to that? Would you use that? Has your attitude to it changed in recent years? Back in 2012, when Facebook bought Israeli face recognition firm face.com, there was a widespread …

Read full article: A Face In A Crowd