Some vendors think the brand new “Bluetooth mesh” standard will kick off a commercial smart lighting bonanza.

Lambda@Edge is now generally available for all customers. You can use this new AWS Lambda feature to run Node.js functions across AWS locations globally without provisioning or managing servers, allowing you to deliver richer, more personalized content with low latency to your customers. 

New water filtration system selected to ease cooling challenges.

Grant to North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to enforce requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Two Southern California plastic product manufacturers to resolve federal Clean Water Act violations.

Once completed, the projects will collectively increase sustainability and protect property and life in the area.

An Enigma cryptography machine has been bought in a Romanian street market for €100 and later sold at a Bucharest auction for €45,000. Enigma machines were distributed in Romania by Germany when Romania was on Germany’s side in WWII. Later it switched to the allies. It is assumed there may be other machines undiscovered in …

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Lloyds, which has a 20-25% share of the cyber insurance market, says that a major cyber attack could cause over $120 billion of potential losses and that many organisations are under-insured. In a report co-authored with risk-modeller Cyence, Lloyds finds that: The WannaCry ransomware attack in May cost $8 billion across 100 countries, says Lloyds. …

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Qualcomm has ben grabbing China market share, reports Digitimes, getting its Snapdragon processors into handsets at MediaTek customers Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Meizu. MediaTek’s response is reported to be a move to TSMC’s 12nm process in Q4. It is said that MediaTek’s lack of a Cat 10 modem has reduced both its market share and …

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French semiconductor lab Leti has used deep etching to created micro injection needles for Swiss firm Debiotech.

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