Topics such as horticulture, floriculture, vertical farming, light recipes, and plant response to light will be explored in depth with speakers from academia, research centers, commercial growers, and SSL manufacturers at the Oct. 12 Horticultural Lighting Conference.

You can now use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to create WAV outputs with PCM audio. The WAV format primarily stores raw and uncompressed audio and is ideal for use in editing workflows and for archival. You can try out this format by using the newly available system presets.

To learn more, please consult the Elastic Transcoder Developer Guide .

AWS Mobile Hub now allows you to set the AWS region where you would like your project’s AWS resources to be provisioned. These include – US East (N Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). Simply login to the AWS Mobile Hub console , create a new project and set the region you would like your resources for that project to be created in. Mobile Hub then uses this setting to provision AWS resources as you enable features like Cloud Logic, NoSQL database and User Data Storage in that region. Additionally, if a particular AWS service needed by a feature is not available in a region that you have provisioned, Mobile Hub will provision services in the nearest region where that AWS service is available.

Start today by visiting AWS Mobile Hub console .

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly newscast for the week of July 18, 2016.

EPA’s contractor will continue work through October 2016.

Relationship further expands Nalco Water’s total water management solutions.

Processor IP firm Ceva will unveil technology for next-generation silicon chipsets for LTE-Advanced Pro and  5G smartphones later this month at the Linley Mobile & Wearables Conference in Santa Clara, California. Linley Gwennap, principal analyst of the Linley Group, writes: “Ceva has a long and successful heritage in DSP IP for LTE, and in fact, powered …

Ceva unveils IP for first 5G smartphone chips

Cambridge Medical Robotics is developing a medical robotics system which it claims can make surgery less invasive and open the way for universal keyhole techniques. The medical device firm started first clinical cadaveric trials last month and has now secured $20.3m venture funding to help commercialise its medical robotics technology. It also plans a recruitment programme. …

Cambridge firm has medical robotics success

The most notable thing to record this month is Android Marshmallow increasing more than 30% (statistics, statistics – it’s only from 10.1% to 13.3%).

Android Marshmallow share expands slowly

The proposed $32bn ARM takeover by Japanese firm SoftBank has caught the semiconductor market by surprise. Most observers believe that the processor IP which is the main ARM business was so important to so many chip makers that ARM’s independence was too strategically important to the market to be broken. As a result it was …

Comment: IoT made ARM takeover inevitable