Starting today, you can create AWS Auto Scaling scaling plans using AWS CloudFormation, a service that allows you to easily provision and update a set of related AWS resources in an orderly and predictable fashion.

Over 11,000 Aibos – Sony’s robot  dog – have been sold since its January launch which is quite a lot for something costing $1,800. Sony may be trying to promote a Tamagotchi-type craze for Aibo because it is on restricted supply and only sold by a lottery process at Sony stores in Japan. Though Sony now …

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The IGBT market will grow 150% by 2021 as EV production ramps up, says Digitimes Research. 40-50% of the cost of an EV is the battery cost, say the researchers, and the second highest cost – representing 15-20% of the cost of an EV –  is the driving  system. As IGBTs account for half of …

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Panasonic believes the growth of IoT will depend on two wireless technologies, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, writes Pascal Meier.

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Kyocera has licensed its haptic feedback technology to Bosch for use in automotive applications. Kyocera has pursuing  haptic feedback R&D for a decade. Its  HAPTIVITY technology enables a real touch sensation on any human-machine interface.  Kyocera has introduced its HAPTIVITY devices in Japanese, U.S. and European tradeshows, and holds patents on this technology in multiple …

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The latest Raspberry Pi can best be summed up by the old adage of more of the same, writes consultant Tam Hanna.

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ON Semiconductor has bought SensL Technologies of Cork – the specialist in Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM), Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) and LiDAR sensing products for automotive, medical, industrial and consumer markets. The acquisition extends ON’s position in automotive sensing applications for ADAS and autonomous driving with expanded capabilities in imaging, radar and LiDAR. By combining …

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Diodes has introduced a 10+10W stereo Class-D audio Amplifier with an anti-clipping circuit to avoid distortion at high volume settings and output spectrum-spreading to improve EMC. Called PAM8106, the amplifier is aimed at wireless loudspeakers, LCD TVs, portable stereos, and game machines. Operation is from 4.5 to 15V and efficiency of up to 92%, the last of which …

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Achieve the right balance between reliability, suitability and cost for connectors.

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A law is only as effective as its means of enforcement and the means of enforcement of GDPR looks ineffective,. If enforcement were in the hands of some pro-active, massively funded EC agency like the Competition Commission then  it would be fearsome. As it is, GDPR is being left to national governments to enforce and …

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