An SSL projector system can now dynamically bathe both the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and the American Falls in colored light on the Niagara River.

Strategies in Light co-chair Bob Steele asks 2017 speaker Brent York of Tangenysys Consulting what opportunities and enhancements spatial tuning will bring to SSL applications and technology.

The Oracle October 2016 Patch Set Updates (PSU) are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle. To create a new Oracle “11.2.0.4.v10” and “12.1.0.2.v6” DB instance with just a few clicks, use the “Launch DB Instance Wizard” in the AWS Management Console and select the appropriate DB engine version. To upgrade an existing database instance, use the “Modify” option in the AWS Management Console and select the appropriate DB engine version. Before you upgrade a production database instance, we recommend that you test the upgrade process on a snapshot restore of your production DB instance to verify the duration of the upgrade process as well as test your application with the new DB engine version.

To learn more about Oracle PSUs supported on RDS, visit the RDS patch update documentation .

Tags can be used to categorize and track your AWS costs, but depend upon you being diligent about applying tags to your resources and making sure that they are enabled for cost allocation. To reduce this overhead, we are introducing an option to automatically mark your resources with the new Resource Created By tag. This tag includes information related to the resource creator depending on the authentication mechanism used, such as Account ID and IAM role. Even though the Resource Created By tag is specific to the Billing & Cost Management console, it functions exactly like the user-defined cost allocation tags within the Detailed Billing Report, Cost & Usage Report, Cost Explorer, and Budgets products.

US engineering, science and operations company Woodard & Curran has acquired consulting engineers RMC Water & Environment, after RMC initiated a process to find a buyer.

Region of Peel, Ontario, Canada, optimizes timing of its system upgrade with new membranes to ensure continued drinking water safety and reliability for residents.

Samsung is to brick the Note 7 making it impossible to charge or use the exploding phablet. Only 7% of the 1.9 million units sold have still not been returned under Samsung’s exchange programme. The bricking will be done by a mid-December software upgrade. The Note 7 was banned by so many airlines that Samsung …

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Foxconn and Sharp are to set up a $6.95 billion LCD plant in China, reports the Nikkei. One site for it is Guangzho but Foxconn is said the be talking other cities in China to get the best deal. Foxconn owns, or has a controlling interest in, three LCD companies – Sharp, Innolux of Taiwan …

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Subaru quickly brings its first hybrid vehicle to market using PXI for HIL testing

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Three power firms are bidding to re-define power supply design in software. Murata Power Solutions, CUI and Ericsson Power Modules explain the motivations and aims of the AMP project.

Read full article: Software defined power control saves energy, say power firms