AWS Transfer Family now supports configuring a client side externally accessible IP address on an FTPS/FTP server, allowing clients behind a firewall or a NAT router to connect to the server. Additionally, customers can now easily scale up their workloads by creating up to 50 servers within AWS Transfer Family in a single AWS account and region, a fivefold increase in the previously supported limit of 10 servers.

Starting today, AWS customers can use ED25519 keys to prove their identity when connecting to EC2 instances. ED25519 is an elliptic curve based public-key system commonly used for SSH authentication.

Angela Merkel’s reign is coming to an end after 16 years in office as the German chancellor is ending on September 26th. The 67-year-old steered the country through the financial crisis of 2008, the Fukushima disaster in 2011 (including its repercussions for atomic energy stronghold Germany) and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic as well as her government’s …

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ELECTRONIC data procesing, like other subjects, has its fashionable OK words. A short time ago the OK word was ‘time-sharing’.  Now it is ‘data transmission.’ So, 60 years ago, started an article in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18th 1961 written by the computer pioneer Sir Maurice Wilkes who led the creation in Cambridge of …

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Millions of qubits can have their spins synchronised at the same time, according to engineers from the University of New South Wales Sydney, who have developed a way to do it. The challenge is to control the spins of electrons on many quantum dots simultaneously using the magnetic field of a microwave signal. A wire …

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For dc motors up to 100A, Trinamic Motion Control has created a three-phase mosfet gate driver that integrates three bottom shunt amplifiers as well as several voltage regulators. “The integrated current sense and diagnostics features are key for enabling functional safety without adding complicated circuitry or additional components to any system’s design,” according to Trinamic …

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Silver nanowires can be drawn down to nanometre dimensions and are finding use in all sorts of chemical and bio-sensing applications, as well as transparent conductive films. They are flexible and the most conductive of the metallic nano-wires, according to the Terasaki Institute in Los Angeles, although they are prone to corrosion. “Silver nanowires have …

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The Starkrimson Streamer Ultra combines a DAC, streamer, and amplifier which perform the same functions that once required a rack full of components. It combines the company’s PecanPi DAC and Starkrimson Ultra amplifiers and GaN transistors. The design  is available with either Volumio or Roon end-point software installed. It is cntrolled with any smartphone, tablet, or …

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On Thursday August 19 the U.S. Air Force will be running the space technology accelerator programme known as SpaceWERX. The event will include a virtual Space Force Pitch Day, which will see awards – up to $34 million – being made to innovative startups competing for Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contracts. You can …

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Today the government is announcing a £105 million Hydrogen Strategy. the government has set a target of 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 – which could replace natural gas in powering around 3 million UK homes each year. The government thinks that the UK hydrogen economy could be worth £900 million and …

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