Today, we are excited to announce the ability to roll back an EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh. EC2 Auto Scaling’s instance refresh feature allows you to replace instances in an Auto Scaling group on a rolling basis. With today’s launch, you can use rollback to undo changes an instance refresh made when it fails.

The son of a co-founder of a computer company invented an aerial camera and started a company to build and sell it. He then started an aircraft company to make aeroplanes to carry the cameras. He sold thousands of aeroplanes. He had 30 patents to his name including a carrier for fruit picking invented when …

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The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…

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Reporting by Aljazeera, Reuters and the Associated Press shows that efforts to send rescue teams, medical staff and other emergency personnel by non-EU countries even surpassed this effort, adding up to approximately 1,400 persons as of early Wednesday morning. While more than 40 countries and territories have sent or were preparing to send teams to …

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Chomerics has announced a thermal interface material with thermal cycling and high temperature  performance aimed at automotive components. Called ‘Gell 20’, it is a one-component material that requires no secondary cure and offers 2.4W/mK conductivity. Operation is over -55 to +200°C. “The material’s heavy paste-like consistency enables controlled dispensing, applied in variable thicknesses up to 4mm,” …

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Amphenol RF has introduced fixed-length cable assemblies with a straight SMA plug one one end and a right-angle SMP plug on the other. The right-angle SMP provides low mated height with no bend radius for low-headroom applications. The cable is Tflex 405 from Amphenol Times Microwave Systems, intended to be a flexible alternative to semi-rigid …

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Kyocera has introduced AEC-Q200 qualified supercapacitors for automotive use. To be found in the company’s SCC series, there are four capacitors (diameter x length): 35F 3V SCCU30E356SRBQ (16  x 30mm) 50F 3V SCCV40E506SRBQ (18 x 40mm ) 100F 2.7V SCCV60B107SRBQ (18 x 60mm) 100F 3V SCCV60E107SRBQ (18 x 60mm) where the final Q indicates AEC-Q200 …

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JEDEC has adopted a pair of top-side-cooled surface-mount packages created by Infineon for high-voltage mosfet. Dubbed QDPAK and DDPAK (in-use, below left), they are intended to replace through hole TO247 and TO220 (respectively) and “deliver equivalent thermal capabilities with improved electrical performance”, said Infineon. “JEDEC package registration, according to MO-354, serves as an enabler for …

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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has released a new wireless standard for the electronic shelf label (ESL) market – Bluetooth ESL – which it describes as scalable, ultra-low power and highly secure. Designed to replace proprietary wireless protocols, it is based on Bluetooth technology and was created with companies involved in the market, such …

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