Liquid-crystal lens technology enables SSL product to adapt the beam spread dynamically under the control of smartphones or other devices.

Today, we made available the new Resource Groups Tagging API, which makes it easier for you to use tags to centrally organize, discover, allocate costs, and control access to AWS resources. The API’s five operations enable you to programmatically tag and untag resources, list resources with a specific tag, and list unique tag keys across multiple AWS services. With this new API, you can now programmatically use AWS resource group and Tag Editor functionality. This makes it easier for you to implement automated tools to manage, search, and filter tags and resources across AWS services.

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Amazon Cloud Directory in the EU (London) Region. This allows your end users and applications to benefit from infrastructure located closer to them in London. Cloud Directory is now available in 7 regions worldwide. 

We are pleased to announce that starting today you can configure the read and keep-alive idle timeout values used by Amazon CloudFront when communicating with custom origins. You can increase or lower either of these values based on the needs of your applications. 

PUB aims to complete its 12,500 m3/d demonstration-scale plant for MBR systems for water reuse in mid-2017.

Water Planet is pioneering the use of true artificial intelligence, or machine learning, in the water treatment industry.

Infineon is adding to  its CoolMOS portfolio  with the 600 V CoolMO P7 and 600 V CoolMOS C7 Gold (G7) series. The product families are designed to operate at 600 V breakdown voltage and deliver improved superjunction MOSFET performance. The P7 is targeting applications such as chargers, adapters, lighting, TV, PC power, solar, server, telecom …

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IC Insights has raised its worldwide IC market growth forecast for 2017 to 11% – more than twice its original 5% outlook. The revision was necessary due to a substantial upgrade to the 2017 growth rates forecast for the DRAM and NAND flash memory markets. IC Insights currently expects DRAM sales to grow 39% and …

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Long-term skin damage following radiotherapy could be predicted using a LED-based scanner, according to The University of California Irvine Beckman Laser Institute (BLI). Radiotherapy is sometimes used to eradicate cancer cells that might have survived surgery or chemotherapy, in breast cancer patients, for example. A side-effect of this radiation is long-term damage in the skin. …

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Kionix KXTJ3 is a drop-in replacement for the earlier 2 x 2 x 0.9mm KXTJ2 (Kionix’s best selling accelerometer), with from better noise performance to extended range. Toys, wearables, remote controls, smart home and IoT are foreseen applications. “A common use case of accelerometers is for power savings, allowing the system to sleep when there …

Read full article: Tiny 3-axis accelerometer gets improved specs