Data on tap but it’s a tale of two technologies. Germany’s EDEKA goes for Philips’ VLC while France’s E.Leclerc taps Bluetooth from Zumtobel. Meanwhile, Philips spills the beans on its emerging fondness for Bluetooth. Wither VLC?

Seeking both to ensure a unified understanding of the meaning of human-centric lighting or HCL and guide deployment, LightingEurope and the International Association of Lighting Designers have defined expected benefits, typical enabling technologies, and potential applications.

You can now invoke AWS CodeBuild during the ‘Test Action’ of your software release pipelines modeled in AWS CodePipeline. This enables you to easily run unit tests against your code.

You can now use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor your Amazon AppStream 2.0 fleets. With CloudWatch metrics for AppStream 2.0, you can easily view the size and utilization of your fleet resources, and you can set alarms so that you can be notified when there is insufficient capacity to support your users, and react to changes in your fleet.

We’ve updated our Big Data on AWS instructor-led training course. This 3-day course introduces cloud-based big data solutions such as Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Kinesis, and now Amazon Athena. The course teaches you how to create big data environments, how to process data, and how to leverage best practices to design big data environments for security and cost-effectiveness.

Today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as AWS Microsoft AD, simplified on-premises user sign-in to the AWS Management Console. Now, you can enable your users to access and manage AWS resources by signing in to the AWS Management Console with their on-premises Active Directory (AD) credentials. This enables you to reuse your on-premises AD security policies such as password expiration and account lockout while still controlling access to the AWS Management Console and AWS resources. 

You can now use upgraded versions of Apache MXNet, TensorFlow, CNTK, and Caffe, on the AWS Deep Learning AMI v2.0 for Amazon Linux, including Keras, available in the AWS Marketplace .

We are pleased to announce the launch of our newest edge location in Prague, our first edge location in Czech Republic.  

You can now use upgraded versions of Apache HBase (1.3.0), Presto (0.166), Apache Zeppelin (0.7.0), Apache Phoenix (4.9.0), and Apache Flink (1.2.0) on Amazon EMR release 5.4.0 . These new versions of supported applications have various improvements and bug fixes. Additionally, you can now create Amazon EMR clusters with R4 instances, the next generation of Amazon EC2 Memory Optimized instances. Amazon EMR has also expanded support for M4 (General Purpose) and C4 (Compute Optimized) instances to AWS GovCloud.

Atlantic and Cape May Counties are the latest to get funding.