Global Android smartphone shipments grew 5% from 552.2 million units in H1 2015 to 577.3 million in H1 2016, says Strategy Analytics.

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MIT researchers have fabricated an ion trap and optical waveguide together in a standard lithographic process creating a path for trapped-ion quantum computing. “Experiments so far have employed optical systems that are cumbersome to scale to even a few tens of qubits, ” say the researchers, “here we demonstrate lithographically defined nanophotonic waveguide devices for …

Read full article: MIT integrates ion trap and wave guide for quantum computing

In today’s LED business roundup, Feit plans to challenge the ITC Initial Determination in Cree IP-centric action, while Osram has added to its entertainment SSL portfolio through a deal with ADB TTV SAS, Lunux emerges from Hellux and Hella Industries, and ams acquires MAZeT.

Starting today, customers running Amazon WorkSpaces in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS region can use AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps to purchase pre-packaged applications on a monthly subscription basis.

You can now provision the following AWS resources using CloudFormation.

• AWS Certificate Manager: AWS Certificate Manager is a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services. Visit our documentation to learn more
• Application Auto Scaling: Application Auto Scaling is a general purpose Auto Scaling service for supported elastic AWS resources. Use it to enable Service Auto Scaling in Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS).
  • You can now set Service Auto Scaling policies in ECS and determine the target service you want to scale using CloudFormation

We are pleased to announce that you can now add cost allocation tags to your Amazon CloudFront distributions. Tags make it easier for you to allocate costs and optimize spending by categorizing and grouping AWS resources. For example, you can use tags to group resources by administrator, application name, cost center, or a specific project. 

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) region.

How safe is your drinking water? For most industrial countries, drinking water is very safe due to the efforts of municipal water agencies.

Over the years, ever-increasing environmental concerns and regulations have heightened the need for increased diligence and tighter restrictions on wastewater quality.

Riverside town receives relief from torturous flooding after the installation of new pumps dramatically improves stormwater pumping station