Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now supports the Application Load Balancer for the Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service.

Amazon API Gateway now supports API usage plans. You can now easily define plans for third-party developers by associating them with individual API keys. This allows you to configure which APIs the caller can access as well as define throttling and request quota limits. You can also extract utilization data on a per API key basis to analyze API usage and generate billing documents. Usage plans allows you to easily manage and monetize your APIs for your API-based business. Read our documentation to learn more.

Evoqua’s Municipal Products and Services division will supply 10 new Envirex Series 400 RBC units arranged in two parallel flow trains.

“Produced water to irrigation grade” achieved in a single modular system, now operating in Kern County near Bakersfield.

How to build your own simple laser trip wire alarm. The author of ‘Arduino Project Handbook: 25 Practical Projects’ takes us through the steps.

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Rambus is to license its Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures IP to Idaho Scientific to use in security IP Cores for FPGAs and defense ASICs.

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Rockchip, the telecom IC company, has licensed the CEVA-XM4 imaging and vision DSP to enhance the imaging and computer vision capabilities of its SoC product lines targeting smartphones, ADAS, drones, robotics and other smart camera devices.

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High-Tech Harassment may have to go onto the Statute Book as an offence if a capability unveiled at the Las Vegas Def Con hacking conference becomes prevalent. In Las Vegas a couple of Kiwi hackers showed how they’d hacked a vibrator. This vibrator is made by a company called Standard Innovation and is branded We-Vibe …

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Linear Tech has launched a general-purpose power management solution for systems requiring multiple low voltage power supplies.

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As everyone knows unhackability doesn’t exist. You pay for the level of security which you can afford but no level of security is wholly secure. Def Con, the hacking conference, showed how universally this is true. Locks epitomise security but, in a talk called “Picking Bluetooth Low Energy Locks from a Quarter Mile Away” two …

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