Strategies in Light keynote speaker Nancy Clanton links early SSL encounters with technology improvements that support designers’ goals for high-performance lighting which elevates the human experience.

Vineyards and grain farms can scan grapes and cereals with an infrared LED-equipped smartphone to analyze food, water, and sugar content, using spectroscopy.

AWS is announcing the immediate availability of the new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region. The Stockholm Region joins Frankfurt, Ireland, London and Paris as the fifth AWS Region in Europe, and the 20th AWS Region worldwide. The AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region consists of three Availability Zones and with this launch, the AWS Global Infrastructure now offers 60 Availability Zones worldwide, serving customers in over 190 countries. The new AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region adds to the existing infrastructure AWS already has in the Nordics, which includes three Edge Network Locations in Sweden, and one each in Finland, Denmark and Norway, for customers looking to deliver websites, applications, and content to end users with low latency.

AWS Storage Gateway released various feature enhancements to File Gateway, including increased performance, the option to selectively refresh portions of the gateway’s cache, and the ability to configure DNS and NTP settings.

Starting today, you can use AWS Batch with workloads running on C5n instance types.

You can now set a lifecycle policy to delete objects from AWS Elemental MediaStore containers after a minimum of one day. This lets you automatically delete the video segments that make up your live streams after a period of time that you define, helping optimize your storage footprint and minimize cost.

Amazon Redshift  is now available in the EU (Stockholm) AWS Region.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. 

The  UK & Ireland electronic component market will grow between 3.4% and 8.5% in 2019, forecasts afdec, which is part of  the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn), with a mid-point of 5.9%. The 2018 market is likely to have grown by 9.2% in 2018,  with distribution taking 41% of the TAM. The afdec/ecsn consensus opinion is that …

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Mouser has signed the data acquisition products specialist MonoDAQ to a global distribution agreement. The MonoDAQ product line  includes four data acquisition products. The MonoDAQ-U-X data acquisition tool is designed to help engineers with daily measurement tasks, serving as any of several discrete tools, such as a strain gauge amplifier, thermocouple interface, and voltage input, with …

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