Qualcomm, Telstra and Ericsson announce plans for interoperability testing and an over-the-air field trial based on the expected 5G NR (New Radio) specifications.

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Sometimes there is an obvious choice why you would choose one type, so let’s look at the pros and cons of each type of sleeving (Heatshrink and Neoprene).

Read full article: Only Connect: Heatshrink versus Neoprene sleeving

No doubt lighting engineers have long dreamed of being able to panel walls and ceilings with sheets of material, which at the touch of a switch would light up with an even glow, and the colour of which could be varied at the turn of a knob. Electroluminescence almost, but not quite, fulfils this dream. So, …

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Learn about data acquisition from sensors and remote control with Intel’s IoT Kit

Read full article: Intel – IoT Solutions Alliance

A driverless car was tested in London yesterday as Nissan put a modified Leaf on the streets of the East End. The car was said to have gone at speeds up to 50mph on local streets and main roads. The Leaf uses cameras, radar and lasers to figure out where it is in relation to …

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Mobile World Congress brought a demo of driverless cars controlled by 5G signals staged by Telefonica, Ericsson and Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology KTH. The companies showed how they could control driverless cars on a test track 70km away in Tarragona. Telefonica’s Javier Lorca said that, for the moment, using cellular signals to control driverless …

Read full article: MWC sees driverless car demo

With location-based services still stuck on the launchpad, the company’s new “Location Lab” reaches out to data and app developers. Meanwhile, Philips finally acknowledges that Bluetooth, not just VLC, can light the way.

AWS Organizations offers policy-based management for multiple AWS accounts and is now generally available for all customers. With Organizations, you can create groups of accounts and then apply policies to those groups. Organizations enables you to centrally manage policies across multiple accounts, without requiring custom scripts and manual processes.

Today, we are introducing a new EC2 Spot Advisor Console to guide customers in using Spot for common applications, and Health Checks for Spot fleet.

Amazon DynamoDB Time-to-Live (TTL) enables you to automatically delete expired items from your tables, at no additional cost. Now, you no longer need to deal with the complexity and cost of manually scanning your tables and deleting the items that you don’t want to retain. Instead, you can simply specify an attribute containing the timestamp when each item in your table should expire and DynamoDB will delete the items for you automatically. You can also view and archive items deleted via TTL using DynamoDB Streams .