We are reducing the On-Demand and Reserved Instance prices for Amazon EC2 H1 Instances in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland) Regions by 15%. These changes will take effect immediately.

I hope you saw our lead news item yesterday – EW BrightSparks 2018 receive awards at the IET. On a great, sunny day in Central London at the IET by the Thames we honoured the EW BrightSparks class of 2018. Thank you to all who attended, particularly the winners of 2017 who did show-and-tell demos …

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Coilcraft had introduced screened inductors intended to reduce losses in power converters running from 2 to 5MHz, and above, at high ripple current. “The use of high switching frequencies or high ripple current allows a corresponding lower inductance value, which results in a physically smaller part for the same electrical specs,” said the firm. “XEL50xx …

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Amplicon has introduced a range of rackmount consoles with dual or triple display outputs.                                                     The KwikDraw-A Multiscreen series are industrial computing 2U units with either two (opening left or …

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Three UK universities are to take part in a £11m programme for the development of nanotechnology for electronics. Imperial College London and the Universities of Southampton and Manchester, will work with industrial partners on the project to replace traditional transistors with memristors as the basis of electronic circuits. Today all ICs are built from vast …

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Cadence Design Systems has introduced design verification IP for three standard interfaces. These are CoaXPress for high-speed imaging, HyperRAM high-speed memory and the JEDEC Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 3.0 specification.  The three tool sets will be used for IP and system-on-chip (SoC) design verification specifically for automotive devices. The UFS 3.0 specification doubles the throughput …

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Arnold Weinstock dominated UK tech in the’80s and ‘90s and he did it as much by force of personality as anything else. In Stephen Aris’ book ‘Arnold Weinstock and the Making of GEC’, Sir Michael Bett describes life inside Stanhope Gate, GEC’s head office: “It was a bit like a court where Arnold was king …

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With speech recognition, Intel’s sparkling results, Apple calling the end of the memory boom, Xilinx’s search for UK engineers and ARM’s chinese connection all figuring prominently…

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For those wanting to try Linux on a RISC-V CPU, Microsemi and SiFive have created an evaluation board with a 1GHz 64bit RISC-V CPU – called HiFive Unleashed Expansion Board. “Plugged into HiFive Unleashed, developers can implement a full-fledged RISC-V personal computer by enabling standard PCI Express (PCIe) devices, USB and secure digital cards to connect …

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We have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, and 9.3.20 in AWS GovCloud (US). This release fixes three PostgreSQL security vulnerabilities and contains additional bug fixes and improvements.

With this update, we have also added support for the ‘orafce’ extension to emulate a subset of common functions and packages in version 9.6.6; and the ‘prefix’ extension to provide prefix range functions capability in version 9.6.6 .

To use the new versions, you can create a new Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instance with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console , or upgrade an existing instance using point-and-click upgrades. An upgrade operation involves a short period of unavailability for your database instance. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide .

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for regional availability.