EBS Recycle Bin is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validated endpoints to protect sensitive information. 

Inflation is pushing working people to strike to protect their wages and pushing housewives to skimp to stay solvent, but inflation has a mega-beneficiary – government. Governments are seeing their debts being whittled away through the currency depreciation caused by inflation. The combined debt of the USA and Europe fell by $4.5 trillion in 2021 and …

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Blueshift’s thermal insulation tape for extreme temperature environments, is being stocked by Digi-Key Electronics. The online distributor has announced it now sells a selection of RockeTape, which it describes as “a one-of-a-kind structured air thermal insulation tape for the world’s hottest and coolest spots”. This is through its Fulfilled by Digi-Key programme. The aerogel tape …

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Here is the letter Elon. Musk’s lawyer sent to Twitter saying why Musk is not legally obliged to go through with the purchase of Twitter. Dear Ms. Gadde (Twitter’s lawyer): We write on behalf of X Holdings I, Inc. and X Holdings II, Inc. (the “Musk Parties”) to provide an additional notice of termination of …

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Virgin Media O2, NEC and Rakuten Symphony have announced that multi-vendor O-RAN is being deployed in Virgin Media O2’s network and is now operational and handling  commercial traffic. The first deployments are in macro-sites in the Northamptonshire region. “The successful activation of Virgin Media O2’s first UK macro-sites demonstrates the potential of the multi-vendor Open …

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Four big deals prop up the 2022 semiconductor M&A total, says IC Insights, and without any more of them this year’s value of planned acquisitions will probably fall short of the annual average. After slowing significantly in the last half of 2021, the pace of megadeals for semiconductor mergers and acquisitions regained momentum in the …

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Kyocera AVX has introduced a series of pouch-style supercapacitors for decreasing current surges in batteries. Called the SCP Series and branded PrizmaCap, they “can be used on their own as system power backup devices, replacing batteries in some cases, or they can be used in conjunction with primary or secondary batteries”, according to distributor Anglia, …

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Renesas is buying Steradian Semiconductors, a fabless semiconductor company based in Bengaluru, India, specialising in 4D imaging radar. The acquisition of Steradian’s radar technology will enable Renesas to extend its reach in the radar market and boost its automotive and industrial sensing solution offerings. With the advancements of ADAS in the automotive market, automotive sensor …

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Toshiba has introduced a smart gate drive photo-coupler with automatic recovery from some fault conditions. Capable of driving ±2.5A into an IGBT or mosfet gate, it is called TLP5222, and is a partner to the TLP5212 announced earlier this month, which needs a signal on the primary side to initiate recovery from fault conditions. “TLP5222 …

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Led lighting certification body Zhaga has announced the first products that have met its ‘Book 24’ definition of luminaires that can be programmed over NFC (near-field communications). “Tridonic is the first company that has earned Zhaga-NFC certification for a number of their LED drivers [right],” according to Zhaga, and they can now carry the Zhaga-NFC …

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