Floodlights are the elephant in the room in their new partnership at FirstEnergy Stadium, where the games will continue under existing fixtures. Bright new concourses for the fans, though.

You can now use time zones as part of time stamps in Amazon Redshift. The new TIMESTAMPTZ data type allows you to input timestamp values that include a time zone. Amazon Redshift automatically converts timestamps to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and stores the UTC values. Also, the COPY command now recognizes timestamp values with time zones in the source data and automatically converts them to UTC.  You can retrieve and display timestamps in Amazon Redshift by setting your preferred time zone at the session level , user level or client connection level.  

We are excited to announce the availability of P2 instances, a new instance type designed for compute-intensive applications that require high-performance GPU coprocessors and massive parallel floating point performance. P2 instances are ideal for deep learning, computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, molecular modeling, genomics, and rendering workloads. For graphics workloads requiring DirectX and OpenGL, you can continue to use G2 instances. 

Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert source media files into formats that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs. It manages all aspects of the media transcoding process for you transparently and automatically. There’s no need to administer software, scale hardware, tune performance, or otherwise manage transcoding infrastructure. You simply create a transcoding “job” specifying the location of your source media file and how you want it transcoded. Amazon Elastic Transcoder also provides transcoding presets for popular output formats, which means that you don’t need to guess about which settings work best on particular devices. All these features are available via service API, AWS SDKs and the AWS Management Console . 

Amazon Game Studios announced their new game, Breakaway, at TwitchCon this year. Breakaway is a mythological sport brawler built for fast action, teamwork, and live streaming. AGS also announced new upcoming features that are built for Twitch: Stream+, Twitch Metastream, Broadcaster Match Builder and Broadcaster Spotlight.

To learn about Breakaway and more, visit playbreakaway.com and follow @PlayBreakaway on Twitter .

Desalitech has won the IDA Industry Technology and Innovation Leader in Water Reuse and Conservation Award of Distinction, thanks in part to its work at Padre Dam Advanced Water Reclamation plant in Southern California.

Linear Technology is aiming at RF and microwaves with a log-responding RMS to DC converter chip which can achieve 1dB accuracy and 35dB dynamic range.

Read full article: Linear releases 100MHz to 40GHz log RMS power detector

Toshiba has added two new N-channel devices to its U-MOS IX-H family of high-efficiency, high-speed switching MOSFETs.

Read full article: Toshiba adds to n-channel MOSFETs

There have been bigger things printed, but few will be as tough as an excavator cab printed in carbon fibre. A student engineering team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won a design competition for the cab, and was on-hand to watched it being printed using carbon fibre-reinforced ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene). The cab is …

Read full article: 3D printing on a grand scale

Imagination Technologies Group, owners of PowerVR-brand graphics processors and MIPS-brand microprocessors, is to sell its Pure digital radio business.

Read full article: Imagination sells loss-making Pure