A novel slot waveguide with tunable, two-dimensional electron gas could form the basis of a room temperature THz modulator

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Component distributor Mouser Electronics has added image-based browsing to its website, as well as by data sheets or by newest products.

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Over 50 years ago an IC designer wrote a short resignation letter: “I resign effective December 31 1965.” On the company’s Exit Interview form he wrote under the heading ‘Reason of Separation’: “I want to be RICH.” Asked what would keep him he replied: “$1 million tax free.” He added it was his goal to …

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HP has done something interesting by combining a PC with a loudspeaker So you only have one lump in the room, doing two jobs. Don;t get too excited unless you are prepared t spend a fair amount – th sis not a bargain basement PC. However, you get a 6th generation multi-core Core i3, i5 …

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A group in Barcelona has developed a I2S Sound Card specially designed to fit on practically all of the Raspberry Pi models. Called DACBerry ONE, it is compatible with many of the actual distributions for RPi, also working on 3rd party open source audiophile music players. Orion Sanchez from OSA Electronics, writes on Kickstarter: “After …

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You can now add tags to your Amazon DynamoDB tables for improved usage categorization and more granular cost reporting. Tags are simple, user-customizable key and value pairs that are supported by many AWS services. For example, you can tag DynamoDB tables for your different development environments — development, staging, and production — to see your spend for each. 

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is a fully managed, secure application streaming service that allows you to stream your desktop applications from AWS to any device running a web browser, without rewriting them. Available today, Image Builder makes it easy to import your applications to AppStream 2.0 so that you can publish them for users to access. You can import, install, and test your applications on an image builder instance, and then create images that are used on your streaming instances. You can add any application that installs and executes on the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system, without any modification or customization.

Amazon EC2 R4 instances are now available in the following regions: Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and EU (London). 

AWS CodeBuild is now available in the US East (Ohio) AWS region.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today announced that Amazon EC2 Spot Instances now support dedicated tenancy. Customers can now use Spot instances to run high scale workloads in a single-tenant manner on physically isolated hardware within a VPC. Using dedicated Spot instances, customers can satisfy security, privacy, or other compliance requirements for their high scale workloads while saving up to 90% off On-Demand pricing.