Thanks to IC Insights for this one – the top 14 smartphone manufacturers:

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For our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2017, we highlight Emilio Mistretta, who is studying as a PhD Researcher at the University of Hertfordshire.

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Developing flying taxis is becoming quite a crowded area. We’ve seen human carrying drone developments from the likes of Ehang of China and Airbus with the aim of selling fleets of them to taxi operators. Now, Volocopter of Germany, says it’s had $30 million from Daimler to develop a five-seater VTOL flying EV for taxi …

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The Luxeon V packaged LED can be driven at just under 5A and targets high-lumen applications including high- and low-bay luminaires, sports field lighting, and outdoor area lighting.

AWS CodeDeploy now supports using multiple tag groups to identify groups of EC2 instances to be included in a deployment group. This new feature allows greater flexibility and more granular control over which instances are included in your deployment groups. If you use a single tag group, any instance identified by at least one tag in the group is included in the deployment group. If you use multiple tag groups, only instances that are identified by at least one tag in each of the tag groups are included. For example, you can define a deployment group that contains only instances tagged with both ‘Application: Frontend’ and ‘Environment: Prod’. For more information, see Tagging Instances for Deployment Groups in AWS CodeDeploy

We’re excited to announce the availability of Lumberyard Beta 1.10, the biggest release to date for Amazon’s free AAA game engine. This release contains over 545 features, fixes, and enhancements. Some highlights include:

• Order-independent Transparency – correctly display overlapping transparent surfaces (i.e. wine glasses or ice sculptures) in your games with greater ease
• Temporal Anti-Aliasing – smooth out jagged edges and other imperfections caused by real-time rendering, getting you closer to achieving film-like quality in your games
• Component entity workflows – 35 improvements to help speed up your iteration time
• Cloud Gems – Over 50 improvements to help you better manage your player community
• Plus much more, including a brand new docking system for customizing the editor, performance enhancements to the material editor, and new cinematic features

Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) now includes the ability to track open and click events, as well as the ability to publish email sending events to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS).

A transcript of the WaterWorld  Weekly Newscast for July 31, 2017.

National study says most consumers unaware of local water quality report.

The Nutrient Sensor Action Challenge is a collaboration between federal agencies to work at the local level.