Russian scientists have let two electrons loose in a system of quantum dots to create a quantum computer memory cell of a higher dimension than a quantum bit.

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US national security concerns nixed the earlier sale to China, so the Dutch company sells to a New York investment firm for about half the price in breaking LED business news.

Strategies in Light co-chair Bob Steele asks 2017 speaker Brent York of Tangenysys Consulting what opportunities and enhancements spatial tuning will bring to SSL applications and technology.

An SSL projector system can now dynamically bathe both the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and the American Falls in colored light on the Niagara River.

Tags can be used to categorize and track your AWS costs, but depend upon you being diligent about applying tags to your resources and making sure that they are enabled for cost allocation. To reduce this overhead, we are introducing an option to automatically mark your resources with the new Resource Created By tag. This tag includes information related to the resource creator depending on the authentication mechanism used, such as Account ID and IAM role. Even though the Resource Created By tag is specific to the Billing & Cost Management console, it functions exactly like the user-defined cost allocation tags within the Detailed Billing Report, Cost & Usage Report, Cost Explorer, and Budgets products.

The Oracle October 2016 Patch Set Updates (PSU) are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle. To create a new Oracle “11.2.0.4.v10” and “12.1.0.2.v6” DB instance with just a few clicks, use the “Launch DB Instance Wizard” in the AWS Management Console and select the appropriate DB engine version. To upgrade an existing database instance, use the “Modify” option in the AWS Management Console and select the appropriate DB engine version. Before you upgrade a production database instance, we recommend that you test the upgrade process on a snapshot restore of your production DB instance to verify the duration of the upgrade process as well as test your application with the new DB engine version.

To learn more about Oracle PSUs supported on RDS, visit the RDS patch update documentation .

US engineering, science and operations company Woodard & Curran has acquired consulting engineers RMC Water & Environment, after RMC initiated a process to find a buyer.

Region of Peel, Ontario, Canada, optimizes timing of its system upgrade with new membranes to ensure continued drinking water safety and reliability for residents.

Samsung is to brick the Note 7 making it impossible to charge or use the exploding phablet. Only 7% of the 1.9 million units sold have still not been returned under Samsung’s exchange programme. The bricking will be done by a mid-December software upgrade. The Note 7 was banned by so many airlines that Samsung …

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Subaru quickly brings its first hybrid vehicle to market using PXI for HIL testing

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