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The YouTube shooter turns out to be a 39 year-old woman of Iranian descent, Nasim Aghdam (pictured) who was a vegan body-builder who had complained about YouTube doctoring her videos. “There is no equal growth opportunity on YouTube or any other video sharing site,” Aghdam wrote about YouTube on her own web-site. Aghdam shot and …

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US consumer groups are calling for stricter safety standards on driverless cars being tested on public roads. The AV START Act, currently before the US Senate, could be used to incorporate standards says consumer group Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. It is proposed that there should be performance standards set up, that there should …

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Toshiba will sell its chip unit to a consortium headed up by Bain and Hynix if it gets Chinese regulatory approval, but not if it doesn’t. This seems to be the stance of new CEO Nobuaki Kurumatani. “We will maintain our stance and wait unless drastic changes occur,” says Kurumatani. Asked what he meant by …

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LM-80 LED test reports from the Citizen Electronics Laboratory are no longer being accepted for market transformation programs at Energy Star and DLC after Citizen was found to have falsified some test data.

Fans have experienced an early start to the 2018 MLB season, and those in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Kansas City are experiencing LED field lighting for the first time; and two teams will square off under SSL in a May series in Mexico.

You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using Node.js v8.10. In addition to the leveraging new features in Node.js v8.10 such as the new V8 6.0 engine, Lambda functions written in Node.js 8.10 can now use the async/await pattern to specify error or return values for the function execution. 

You can now tag your Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Snapshots at the time of creation. You can do this from the Amazon EC2 console or through the CreateSnapshot API. By tagging resources at the time of creation, you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging scripts after resource creation.

SpaceX has got FCC approval to launch 4,425 low-orbit satellites to provide low-cost internet connectivity. Because they fly low, the satellites will deliver faster connections than geo-stationary satellites. The FCC said SpaceX has been given permission to use frequencies in the Ka (20/30 GHz) and Ku (11/14 GHz) bands “This is an important step toward …

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BELL Telephone Laboratories in the USA have a heavy research effort going into the development of  epitaxial transistors. So, 58 years ago,  started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of November 2nd 1960 The story continues: This family of devices was announced by Bell recently. The transistor is expected by many in the industry to …

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