SSL street light trends are clearly moving toward better quality of light and elimination of uplight and glare, and the Cree project, in conjunction with LightSmart Energy Consulting, delivers those benefits in Newburyport, MA.

Analysts Philip Smallwood and Martin Shih discuss driving factors and challenges in the packaged LED market in advance of the upcoming global packaged LED market report and presentation at Strategies in Light.

We are excited to announce the availability of our beta for the new AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty exam and free, digital, self-paced training. Beta candidates have the opportunity to take the newest exams first for 150 USD. Be among the first to verify your knowledge and skills in Alexa Skill Building.

The Renesas RX65N System on Chip (SoC) is now qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. You can take advantage of Amazon FreeRTOS features and benefits using the Renesas Starter Kit+ for RX65N-2MB available from Renesas.

Researcher Rob Baker uses a tunable SSL system to accelerate seed production across many Brassica rapa strains at the Miami University Department of Biology, leveraging horticultural lighting to learn how environmental stress factors impact gene expression.

AWS has published a service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon EFS, which provides availability guarantees for Amazon EFS file systems.

Jeff Bezos made more money than anyone else last year and Mark Zuckerberg lost more than anyone else, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire’s Index. Bezos was $24 billion richer at the end of 2018 than he was at the end of 2017 and Zuckerberg was $20 billion poorer. Bezos now has $123 billion dwarfing Zuckerberg’s …

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The universities of Sheffield, Birmingham, Leeds and Bristol have received a government grant of £26.6 million to develop micro-robots (pictured) which will run through underground pipes to find and mend cracks.  “While for now we can only dream of a world without roadworks disrupting our lives, these pipe-repairing robots herald the start of technology that …

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