Company expands into flow monitoring with acquisition

 

Researchers examined state-level spill data to characterize spills.

 

  CB Insights has come up with a methodology to determine who are the best VCs. The  factors taken into account are: An investor’s exits – the frequency/volume, size, and stage of entry Network centrality – connectivity to other investors. Think of it as akin to Google Pagerank. Consistency – stage, industry consistency of investments …

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In a move reminiscent of Facebook’s 2012 purchase of Israeli facial recognition company face.com, Apple is reported to have bought another Israeli facial recognition company called RealFace. The expectation with the Facebook purchase was that it would match it to its vast library of people photos to create a mobile phone killer app which would …

Read full article: Apple buys face recognition firm

Among the attractions at the National Schoolboys’ Own Exhibition at Olympia, which opened last Tuesday, is a simulated flight in an RAF jet transport. So, 56 years ago, opened a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 28th 1960. The story continues: Thirty-five boys at a time can be accommodated in a mock-up fuselage built …

Read full article: Flight Simulation For School Kids

As more businesses begin to dive into the Internet of Things, the lighting industry must tend to cybersecurity issues in order to exploit the full market potential of smart lighting, says Paul Jauregui.

Today, AWS Marketplace released new feature enhancements to the Seller Self-Service Listings feature, a web-based interface that lets AWS Marketplace software vendors manage their product listings through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Starting today, software vendors that have product listings in AWS Marketplace can use Self-Service Listings to make changes to their Amazon Machine Image (AMI)-based product listings, including updating product metadata, uploading new versions, making changes to instance types and pricing, and more. In addition, Self-Service Listings allows vendors to create new AMI-based or SaaS Subscriptions product listings.

Amazon CloudWatch introduces Alarms on Dashboards, a new feature that enables customers to bring metrics and alarms together on a dashboard. This new feature can help you stay better informed about important changes in your AWS resources and metrics with more informative dashboards that integrate alarm conditions.

Customers can now use Amazon Athena to query data stored in Apache AVRO. AVRO is a data serialization system with support for rich data structures, schemas and binary data format. Click here to learn more about using AVRO with Athena. We also added support for the OpenCSV Serde, which allows you to process CSV files with customized separator, quote and escape characters. 

Fibrek S.E.N.C. fined $125,000 for deposits in Mistassini and Ashuapmushuan rivers