These two new Quick Starts automatically deploy Consul and Vault, which are two popular DevOps tools from HashiCorp, Inc. , on the AWS Cloud. The Quick Starts were created by AWS solutions architects in partnership with HashiCorp, to integrate solutions and services from both companies.
Drinking water system in Arizona tests positive for E. coli
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality confirmed contamination in the Doney Park Water Company supply.
Chicago water plant trespasser released, vanishes
A man discovered trespassing in a Chicago water plant has vanished after being charged with trespassing early last week.
Siemens in the frame to buy Mentor
Siemens could be announcing a decision to buy Mentor Graphics later today. It is reported that Siemens will pay between $4.5 billion and $4.6 billion in cash. Mentor, headed up by Wally Rhines (pictured), has been up against activist investor Elliott Management which has taken an 8% stake in the company and is pushing for …
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Smartphones growing but total cellphone falling, says IC Insights
Smartphone shipments are forecast to grow by 4% in 2016 to 1,490 million units after jumping by 13% to 1,430 million in 2015, says IC Insights, and to grow by 5% in 2017, reaching 1,565 million units. Overall, smartphone unit shipments are now forecast to grow at single-digit annual rates through 2020. Smartphones accounted for …
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Multi-functional health patch from Imec
Imec and it’s subsidiary Holst Centre have developed a health patch which tracks physical and cardiac activity while monitoring bioelectrical impedance. The technology is available for licensing. “Since our entry in this space, we’ve advanced far beyond proof-of-concept to a patch that has attained a high level of technical maturity,” says Imec’s Ruben de Francisco, …
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Ed Joins The Trump Love-Fest
The PM’s really fired up by Trump’s victory, Ed confides to his diary, is the vicar’s daughter titillated by the thought of cosying up to a rough-hewn Yankee builder? I don’t know, but in Cabinet she seems to go a shade pinker when he’s mentioned. Anyway, we’ve all been told to come up with ways …
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Xilinx offers FPGA acceleration stack
Xilinx is selling an FPGA acceleration stack including libraries, framework integrations, developer boards, and OpenStack support. Xilinx claims it provides the fastest path to realize 40x better compute efficiency with Xilinx FPGAs compared to x86 server CPUs and up to six times the compute efficiency over competitive FPGAs. Using dynamic reconfiguration, Xilinx enables silicon optimization …
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Germanium transistors show promise again
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have used metal germanides at the metal-germanium interface, with suitable surface crystal planes, to improve contact resistance and device performance in germanium transistors. Germanium has high electron and hole mobilities, and has been demonstrated in MISFETs (metal-insulator-semiconductor FETs), but parasitic resistance and off-state leakage at the source-drain inhibit performance. …
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Electronica: Video Interview – Keysight on power optimisation for autonomous IoT devices
At Electronica 2016, we caught up with Stewart Wilson, Business Manager at Keysight Technologies, to talk about power optimisation for autonomous IoT devices.
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