We are pleased to announce the launch of our newest edge locations in Toronto and Montreal, our first edge locations in Canada. Adding locations in Canada has been frequently requested by our customers so we are excited to add these two locations to our global network. If you’re already using Amazon CloudFront, you don’t need to do anything to your applications as requests are automatically routed to these locations when appropriate.

We are excited to announce the release of Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.4, which includes 230 new improvements, fixes and features. Lumberyard Beta 1.4 introduces an integrated Lua editor and debugger, network encryption and profiling for more control when building multiplayer games. Read about the update in the GameDev Blog and the Lumberyard Beta 1.4 release notes .

The cocky Californian in the cargo shorts who came in last week has given me a clear idea of how we can exploit Brexit, Ed confides to his diary. We follow the model of the pre-1997 relationship between Hong Kong and China. We will be a lightly regulated, low tax, highly flexible economy operating off-shore …

Read full article: Ed Clocks An Opportunity

Nissan has produced a stunning-looking electric car which is being used at Rio to drive VIPs around. It was developed with the Williams F1 racing car team’s Williams Advanced Engineering centre. The electric car, called BladeGlider, has five 220kWh lithium-ion batteries. It can reach 62mph in five seconds from a standing start and has a …

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Thanks to Erik Milz of Cree for bringing this to my attention. The US Municipal Solid-state Street Lighting Consortium has produced a short but detailed review of the American Medical Association’s comments on LED street lighting. By MSSLC director Bruce Kinzey, of the US government’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the review is backed-up with links to science. …

Read full article: MSSLC reviews AMA led streetlamp report

Intel has recalled its Basis Peak watches because they overheat causing skin burns. Production of the smartwatch was halted in June when Intel told users a fix was underway. It didn’t materialise. Basis Peak was to have been one of Intel’s routes into wearables, with Intel buying Basis in 2014 for around $100 million. “On …

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Sony, which holds a 40% share of the image sensor market, is to switch its marketing focus for CMOS image sensors to the automobile, robot and medicare segments, says Digitimes Research. Sony’s current largest market for image sensor revenues is handsets but that market is only growing at 4% CAGR 2014-20. The market for image …

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The US semiconductor industry internationalised early. The first foreign plant was Fairchild’s Hong Kong assembly plant set up in 1963. “We took an old factory where they had been making rubber shoes on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong,” recalls Charlie Sporck, later CEO of National, but then running the manufacturing operation at Fairchild in …

Read full article: The First SE Asian Semiconductor Plant

Crystalline studies of cadmium telluride solar cells have established how selenium makes them better. Adding the optimum amount of selenium in the right places could help increase efficiency from the current mark of ~22% towards the theoretical limit of 30-33%. CdTe cells work in thin film form – they can absorb the same amount of …

Read full article: Cadmium telluride selenide solar cells get better

Audio Precision, the audio test specialists, have released the latest version of their Android audio test app, Smartphone Audio Test. Version 2.1 of the app supports Android versions 4, 5 and 6 (and also Android N Developer Preview 5).

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