Fourteen percent of over 60s learning to code are doing it for their current job, and 9% want to improve their future job prospects.

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Xilinx says its Virtex UltraScale+ FPGAs are available in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 instances which bring in extra servers to cope with heavy loads. The application provides programmable hardware acceleration with FPGAs and enables users to optimize their compute resources for the unique requirements of their workloads. F1 instances make it easy to …

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SeeedStudio – the prototype specialists behind such things as the BeagleBone Green Wireless – develops the Wio GPS Board, based on the MT2503 and Arduino M0 MCU.

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A team from Korea creates extra-flexible neural electrodes, using zinc oxide nanowires, that minimise tissue damage without losing signal fidelity.

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Microlease, test equipment distributor and rental firm, will now sell instruments from GW Instek in the UK, Ireland and Italy. Microlease, which is already a distributor of Keysight and Viavi instruments in the UK, will sell over 300 GW Instek instruments including oscilloscopes, signal sources, power supplies, and digital meters. Raffaele Gatta, European sales director at Microlease, writes: “This addition …

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53 years ago, a computer company made a momentous decision – to cut its product line down to one family. Before the single product family was introduced, it was just as complicated for a customer to move from one of the company’s computers to another company’s computers as it was to move between the different …

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US makers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment had $2.03 billion in billings in March, says SEMI. The March figure  is 2.6%  higher than February’s  $1.97 billion, and 69.2% higher than the March 2016 billings level of $1.20 billion. “March billings reached robust levels not seen since March 2001,” says SEMI’s Dan Tracy,  “the equipment industry is clearly …

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SCALE-2 IGBT gate drivers from Power Integrations include galvanic isolation, protection, and DC/DC conversion in a single module

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You can now attach or replace an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to your existing Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS GovCloud region. 

The AWS Service Delivery Program helps AWS customers find qualified APN Partners that have demonstrated the ability to provide expertise in a specific service or skill area. AWS Service Catalog partners help create catalogs of IT services that are approved by the customer’s organization for use on AWS. With AWS Service Catalog, customers and partners can centrally manage commonly deployed IT services to help achieve consistent governance and meet compliance requirements while enabling users to self-provision approved services.