Innovate UK is to invest up to £4m in new projects that help to speed up the use of compound semiconductors.

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Scientists have seen inside avalanches for the first time, using a novel radar created by University College London which can reach where optical techniques fail “By penetrating the powder cloud, you can observe the nature and direction of the flow of the 90% of snow that otherwise remains invisible,” said project leader Professor Paul Brennan of …

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Cree’s lighting division has created a range of high-end high-efficiency LED replacements for incandescent light bulbs. The 100W replacement, for example, achieves a highly creditable 100 lm/W – delivering 1,650 lm from 16.5W. What makes this remarkable this is the 2,700K (warm) white version, with a CRI of 85, and the bulb is dimmable – …

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Q: What, in 1938, was Buckminster Fuller describing here? “A self-balancing, 28-jointed adapter-base biped; an electro-chemical reduction-plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries Jor subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries; millions of warning signal, railroad and conveyor systems; crushers and …

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Cree has essentially supplanted its entire SSL replacement lamp portfolio with new products that deliver a longer warranty and lifetime and generally higher-quality lighting.

Tunable LED lighting in resident rooms and in corridors delivered generally positive results in optimizing sleep/wake cycles for inhabitants of a senior living center located in Sacramento, CA.

Starting today, you can set access-level policies on AWS Service Catalog post-launch actions. Previously, users would have access either to any provisioned product in the account or only to those which they themselves launched. Now, you can customize the access level for each action, with support for user, role, and account levels. This feature allows users to be granted access to view, update, terminate, and manage provisioned products created under their role or the account to which they are logged in. For more information about policies for these actions, see the AWS Service Catalog documentation including the example policies .

You can now use Amazon Redshift’s Enhanced VPC Routing to force all of your COPY and UNLOAD  traffic to go through your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) .  Enhanced VPC Routing supports the use of standard VPC features such as VPC Endpoints, security groups, network ACLs, managed NAT and internet gateways, enabling you to tightly manage the flow of data between your Amazon Redshift cluster and all of your data sources. In particular, when your Amazon Redshift cluster is on a private subnet and you enable Enhanced VPC Routing, all the COPY and UNLOAD traffic between your cluster and Amazon S3 will be restricted to your VPC. You can also add a policy to your VPC endpoint to restrict unloading data only to a specific S3 bucket in your account, and monitor all COPY and UNLOAD traffic using VPC flow logs. 

You can now monitor and automatically react to changes in your AWS CodeDeploy deployments using Amazon CloudWatch alarms. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service for AWS cloud resources and the applications you run on AWS. Using CloudWatch with CodeDeploy, you can monitor metrics for Amazon EC2 instances or Auto Scaling groups being managed by CodeDeploy and then invoke an action if the metric you are tracking crosses a certain threshold for a defined period of time. You can monitor metrics such as instance CPU utilization. If the alarm is activated, CloudWatch initiates actions such as sending a notification to Amazon Simple Notification Service, stopping a CodeDeploy deployment, or changing the state of an instance (e.g. reboot, terminate, recover).

Today, we are launching Earth on AWS, a new landing page that highlights large geospatial datasets made openly available in the cloud as AWS Public Datasets as well as resources to learn how to build planetary-scale applications in the cloud with open geospatial data. In addition to previously launched, Landsat, NEXRAD, and SpaceNet datasets, new datasets made up of high resolution aerial imagery, global event information, and global elevation data are now available. We are also opening a call for proposals from researchers to receive promotional Cloud Credits for Research to work with Earth observation data on AWS. Learn more at https://aws.amazon.com/earth.