With the immminent ratification of the Bluetooth 5 standard, Nordic Semiconductor has announced its Bluetooth 5 ready nRF52840 SoC.

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Vicor has added a number of power converter modules in its ChiP package range. The supplier has added four 30V input nominal modules (9-50V range) in a 3623 Chip package (1.52 x 0.90 x 0.29 in). These isolated, regulated DC-DC converters have output voltages of 5, 24, 28, and 48 V, and power levels up to 160 …

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PCBs are rigid plates to connect electronic circuitry while the most common basic characteristic of the human body is its flexibility. Mixing the two in wearable medical devices will need rigid-flex PCB designs, writes Mark Forbes Printed circuit boards (PCBs) used in most electronic products are basically rigid plates to connect circuitry. But demand for flexible …

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), which provides simple and scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud, now allows you to access your file data from on-premises datacenters. On-premises servers can now move file data to and from your Amazon EFS file systems when connected to your Amazon VPC with AWS Direct Connect, allowing you to migrate data sets to EFS, enable cloud bursting scenarios, or backup your on-premises data to EFS. 

The AWS Quick Start for JIRA now includes support for JIRA Service Desk Data Center. You can use the updated Quick Start to deploy one of the following JIRA products on AWS:
• JIRA Software Data Center, which is a software development tool that is used by agile teams. This tool helps development teams create and estimate projects, build a sprint backlog, identify team commitments and velocity, visualize team activity, and report on progress.
• JIRA Service Desk Data Center, which provides IT service management software with high availability and performance at scale on AWS. JIRA Service Desk is easy to use, simple to set up, and has everything you need for IT support and customer service. Teams can link JIRA Service Desk tickets to JIRA Software issues and keep development and IT connected for fast issue resolution.  

As part of AWS’ continued focus on security of information, DMS now supports SSL enabled endpoints for Oracle database engines. This is an addition to our existing support for SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MySQL, and MariaDB. Coupled with the existing encryption offered by a VPN or AWS Direct Connect, customers can provide security for their data.

Your Amazon RDS for Oracle Database Instance can now send emails using utl_smtp package and communicate with external Web Servers and TCP/IP-based servers using utl_http and utl_tcp packages. To learn more about using this feature, refer to Amazon RDS for Oracle documentation .

Two scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have been recognised for the development of a novel thin film composite hollow fibre membrane…

The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development will loan US$115.5 to help with the funding of a seawater desalination plant for the city of Port Said…

As HM Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, and particularly as Baron Shoreditch, I feel I should be creating some energy down in Shoreditch at Tech City – Silicon Roundabout as it used to be called. “Fix me half a dozen appointments and a town hall at Tech City,” I order my PPS. …

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