With Brexit in the offing in 2019, the Chancellor Philip Hammond has just presented his Budget to Parliament for 2018.

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Texas Instruments has announced ready-to-use 600V gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors with built-in driver stages. The 50 and 70mΩ devices are intended for applications from 100W up to 10kW. While GaN transistor have the potential to increase the efficiency and shrink the size of power supplies, their high speed and somewhat fussy characterisitcs mean that …

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The transition to IoT lighting continues to come at a cost. There were bright spots in Signify’s third-quarter results, but sales and earnings fell.

The primary lighting in new London-area Crossrail stations will rely on custom, high-output, uplight SSL fixtures that indirectly illuminate the space via reflective surfaces on walls and ceilings, creating a sense of spaciousness.

When building a power supply using a microcontroller, has it ever frustrated you that most mosfet gate driver chips are only specified to work down to 4.5V. There might be one or two that create a suitable rail for the top mosfet using a bootstrap circuit, but these cease to work at either 0% or …

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Having been to Nepal recently, I was amazed how many wires folk can manage to string off a single telegraph pole. Mostly the power at the top gets left alone, and then it appears telecoms cables are added when as and when required, by anyone with a ladder – at least I saw guys with …

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Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. The Translate API is now an AWS HIPAA Eligible Service. If you have a Business Associate Addendum (BAA) in place with AWS, you can immediately start using Amazon Translate to translate texts containing protected health information (PHI). If you do not have a BAA in place with AWS or have any other questions about running HIPAA-regulated workloads on AWS, please contact us .

Amazon WorkDocs Drive is now available for macOS users. You can use Amazon WorkDocs Drive as a user drive to access to all of your files on-demand. You can also easily access any file on Amazon WorkDocs through your Mac Finder. All of your files are available on-demand from your device without consuming valuable disk space.

With Amazon WorkDocs Drive, many of the capabilities of WorkDocs are accessible without opening your browser. You can now share, mark favorites, and see real-time status icons from your Mac Finder. All changes that you make with Amazon WorkDocs Drive are automatically synced with your Amazon WorkDocs site and can be accessed from any device or offline.

You can download Amazon WorkDocs Drive for Mac here . Amazon WorkDocs Drive for Mac is supported in all AWS regions where Amazon WorkDocs is available, and it is compatible with macOS version 10.11 or later. Please visit Amazon WorkDocs to learn more .

You can now reserve Amazon EC2 capacity for any duration with On-Demand Capacity Reservations. Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of instance types as well as over 50 global Availability Zones where you can run your applications. Some customers however have very specific requirements for portions of their applications around instance type, size, and capability, as well as the Availability Zone the instance needs to run in, and need very high levels of assurance that they will always be able to launch that specific capacity. Previously in order to achieve a capacity reservation, customers had to leverage Zonal Reserved Instances and commit to that capacity for a minimum of one year. Now with On-Demand Capacity Reservations, customers can reserve the exact capacity they need, in the location they need, and can keep it only for as long as they need it.

On-Demand Capacity Reservations are activated as soon as they are requested, and they stay active until cancelled. A Capacity Reservation is tied to a specific Availability Zone and, by default automatically utilized by running instances in that Availability Zone. Instances you have placed Capacity Reservations for are charged at the normal instance rate for as long as you maintain the reservation. Should you no longer need them, you can cancel your Capacity Reservation at any time to stop paying.

If you have Regional RI discounts, they will automatically apply to any matching Capacity Reservation. This gives you the flexibility to selectively add capacity reservations and still get the Regional RI discounts for that usage.

To get started, you can create an On-Demand Capacity Reservation by simply choosing an Availability Zone and quantity (number of instances) along with other instance specifications such as instance type and tenancy. Once created, the Capacity Reservation will ensure that you will always be able to launch that specific EC2 configuration.

On-Demand Capacity Reservations are now available in all public Regions. You can create and manage Capacity Reservations through the AWS Management Console , AWS SDK and CLI. To learn more about Capacity Reservations and how to use them, visit FAQs , Linux or Windows technical documentations.

Starting today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory , also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, makes it easier for you to monitor and analyze security events of your directory. Now, you can forward security event logs from your directory to Amazon CloudWatch Logs . This helps you to meet your security monitoring, audit, and log retention policy requirements by providing transparency of the security events in your directory.