This new Quick Start helps you deploy web applications written with the Swift programming language on the AWS Cloud.  

We’re announcing the availability of an Amazon Linux container image through Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR) and Docker Hub. The Amazon Linux container image is built from the same software components included in the Amazon Linux AMI, but is now publicly available for use in any environment as a base image for Docker workloads. We’re excited to be able to provide the security and performance of the Amazon Linux AMI to applications that run in containers.

Today, AWS Marketplace , which offers more than 2,700 software listings from more than 925 independent software vendors, announced Product Support Connection (PSC), a new program that lets AWS Marketplace customers share contact details with software vendors through the AWS Marketplace web site to access and receive timely, more seamless product support. For products that support PSC, AWS Marketplace customers can choose to share contact details such as name, telephone number, organization, and email address with the vendor during or after a product subscription.  

GE has confirmed that it is exploring options to sell its Water and Process Technologies unit.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for October 31, 2016.

Company expands footprint in the Sunbelt region of the U.S., adding to recent acquisitions in North Carolina and Georgia.

Advanced treatment to reduce discharges, provide sustainable water source.

Following the announcement of a proposed combination of GE’s Oil & Gas business with Baker Hughes, GE has confirmed it is exploring options for selling the Water & Process Technologies business. 

By switching to zinc-coated, V-Bio encased ductile iron pipe, WSSC expects to put that pipe in the ground and not come back to replace it for 100 years or more.

Graphcore, a Bristol-based AI start-up headed by Nigel Toon formerly of Icera, picoChip and XMOS, has raised $30 million in VC money. Backers include Samsung, Bosch and Hermann Hauser. Graphcore is developing processors specifically for machine learning – an approach which, it says, will deliver up to 100x more performance than off-the-shelf GPUs. Graphcore calls …

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