You can now use the AWS CLI to authenticate and register on-premises servers with AWS CodeDeploy using temporary credentials generated by the AWS Security Token Service . This method enables you to automate registering a large number of on-premises servers with CodeDeploy.  

The Hanover Township Public Works Department teamed with Oldcastle Precast to devise a unique stormwater solution using special reinforced concrete pipes.

As forecast, there has been a hike in wafer prices across the board. The Taiwan newspaper Commercial Times reports that contract prices for 12 inch wafers have been negotiated 10% higher for Q1 2017. The suppliers named are: GlobalWafers, Formosa Sumco Technology, distributor Topco Scientific, Shin-Etsu Handotai, Sumco and distributor Topco Scientific. The 10% hike …

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Electronics Weekly talks to Daniel Cooley, general manager of the IoT products business at Silicon Labs. I know you have IP for low power processors and sensor networks; what do you see as the big potential applications for these IoT technologies? Daniel Cooley: The range of Internet of Things end-node applications is virtually unlimited, extending …

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I love the story of the farmer’s wife in Cumbria who found her internet cut off so she installed her own fibre network and, what’s more, FTTH. It is in the good old tradition of country people who do stuff themselves rather than endure the often inordinately long wait for the regular suppliers to show …

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What a week for Toshiba shares – down 12% on Tuesday, 20% on Wednesday and 17% today. 40% down since the 26th. However Toshiba shares did very well in 2016 rising 70% in the year up to Dec 26. But Toshiba’ solvency is now being questioned and banks which have lent to Toshiba are seeing …

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At the end of 2016, there are 183 unicorns in the world ‘worth’ a collective $652 billion, reports CB Insights. Here is the list. Those joining the unicorn herd in December are: Huochebang China. Global Switch UK Careen Networks UAE JetSmarter USA Procore Technologies USA Companies which are predicted by CB Insights to join the …

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Forecasts for the 2017 semiconductor market are beginning to trickle in and, on the whole, they are much more positive than in the last three years. The last two years have shown no growth at all. Mike Cowan predicts 4.7% growth for 2017; WSTS predicts 3.3%; Bill McLean’s IC Insights predicts 4%; Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor …

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There was once a Auschwitz prisoner who was liberated by the US army who then enlisted as a soldier and applied himself to mechanical repair work. Later he started a machine repair business which morphed into a typewriter sales business, then into adding machines, calculators and, finally, computers. He based his computers on the 6502 …

Read full article: Fable: An Inspiration

PIRANHA will recycle heat captured from the hot water that is used in Andina’s brewing operations.