Researchers at the University of Georgia and at Ben-Gurion University in Israel claim to have demonstrated how nanoscale electronic components can be made from single DNA molecules. According to the study’s lead author, Bingqian Xu, an associate professor in the UGA College of Engineering: “For 50 years, we have been able to place more and …

US researchers make ‘smallest’ diode from DNA molecules

Intel is restructuring – away from PC processors and towards server and mobile chips. “The data centre and IoT businesses are Intel’s primary growth engines, with memory and FPGAs accelerating these opportunities,” said the firm. Electronics Weekly looked into likely Intel job cuts two days ago These changes will result in 12,000 employees losing their jobs – which …

Intel confirms 12,000 job cuts and restructuring

The light-guide-based RSW LED street light family now includes models that extend to 210W and 23,000 lm while the packaged LED business within Cree has rolled out the third-generation of the XP-G LED family.

Leading into LightFair International, there has been a flurry of activity in the network and control area for LED-based lighting led by Lutron’s introduction of the new Vive platform, and new partnerships among a number of industry stalwarts.

Starting today, you can save up to 50% on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) by launching Amazon EC2 instances and Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) clusters with two new EBS volumes, Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) and Cold HDD (sc1). These new volume types offer better price performance, improved performance consistency, and higher throughput compared to our existing EBS Magnetic offering. Both are designed for throughput-intensive and big data workloads, which are characterized by having large data sets, large I/O sizes, and sequential I/O patterns. Examples of these workloads include MapReduce, Kafka, log processing, data warehouse, and ETL.

Amazon Kinesis Firehose, the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS, now supports Amazon Elasticsearch Service as a data delivery destination. You can now use Amazon Kinesis Firehose to stream data to your Amazon Elasticsearch domains continuously and in near real time. Amazon Kinesis Firehose automatically scales to match the throughput of your data and handles all the underlying stream management. For more information, see the Amazon Kinesis Firehose website and developer guide .

You can now use Cognito Identity to easily and securely add user sign-up and sign-in to your mobile and web apps. Cognito Identity can scale to support hundreds of millions of users, and is fully managed so you don’t have to worry about building, securing, and scaling a solution to handle user management and authentication.

You can now use AWS Device Farm for manual tasks like debugging new functionality, running manual tests, and reproducing customer issues. Simply choose an Android device and swipe, gesture, and interact with it from your web browser. 

Amazon Kinesis Streams enables you to build custom applications that process or analyze streaming data for specialized needs. Today we are adding two new features, time-based shard iterators and shard-level metrics, to make it easy to replay and manage your Amazon Kinesis streams. 

You can now choose to have your AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments automatically update to the latest version of the underlying platform running your application during a specified maintenance window. Elastic Beanstalk regularly releases new versions of supported platforms (i.e., Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python, .NET, Go, and Docker) with operating system, web & application server, and language & framework updates. Previously, you had to manually initiate updates to your Elastic Beanstalk environments using the Elastic Beanstalk console, command line interface (CLI), or API. Now, you can simply select a weekly maintenance window and have Elastic Beanstalk automatically update the platform version of your environment during that window.