Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Management Agent (OMA) for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Cloud Control 13c1 and 13c2. OEM 13c  offers web-based tools to monitor and manage your Oracle databases. Amazon RDS for Oracle installs OMA, which then communicates with your Oracle Management Service (OMS) to provide monitoring information.

You can now choose from two types of API endpoints when creating REST APIs and custom domains with Amazon API Gateway. A regional API endpoint is a new type of endpoint that is accessed from the same AWS region in which your REST API is deployed. This helps you reduce request latency when API requests originate from the same region as your REST API. Additionally, you can now choose to associate your own Amazon CloudFront distribution with the regional API endpoint. The second type of API endpoint is the edge-optimized API. Edge-optimized APIs are endpoints that are accessed through a CloudFront distribution that is created and managed by API Gateway. Previously, edge-optimized APIs were the default option for creating APIs with API Gateway.

Amazon Kinesis Analytics allows you to detect anomalies on streaming data in real time . Today, we launched two new features that provide explanations of the anomalies, making it easy for you to perform root cause analysis. You can learn which fields in your data lead to high anomaly scores and identify trends associated with the anomaly.

The International Desalination Association (IDA) has appointed officers for the 2017 to 2019 term, to support new president Miguel Angel Sanz, and Shannon McCarthy, secretary general.

Water and Electricity Company (WEC) of Saudi Arabia has requested expressions of interest on two new mega seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant projects.

Halma businesses Hanovia and Berson have together launched a new low-pressure ultraviolet (UV) disinfection system for treating municipal, reuse, and wastewater.

Italmatch Chemicals has acquired Sudamfos Do Brasil, a leading Brazilian distributor of phosphonate, phosphates, and other speciality chemical products, through new company Italmatch Do Basail Partipicoes.

According to ten famous sources, Bitcoin is: “a techno tour de force” Bill Gates. “an Enron in the making,” Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, “a fraud,” Jamie Dimon “a remarkable cryptographic achievement,” Eric Schmidt “a mirage,” Warren Buffett. “evil,” Paul Krugman “a huge, gigantic scam,’ Jordan Belfort (the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’) ‘pretty cool,” …

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SiFive is teaming up with Flex Logix to make EFLX eFPGA available for the SiFive Freedom Platform as part of the DesignShare program. The availability of Flex Logix IP through DesignShare eases time to market and removes traditional barriers to entry that have blocked smaller companies from developing custom silicon. “The addition of Flex Logix’s …

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Alibaba filed for more Taiwan patents in Q3 than any other foreign company, says the island’s Ministry of Economic Affairs. It is the third quarter in a row that Alibaba has been the top patent applicant. Second was Qualcomm with 135 applications and third was Intel with 110. Applied Materials Inc was fourth with 108 …

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