We are excited to announce a new edge location in Atlanta, Georgia for Amazon CloudFront. This is the second edge location for Atlanta and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 60. 

Amazon EC2 Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports container logging to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to monitor and troubleshoot your applications that run in containers. You can send each container’s log output to CloudWatch Logs and monitor these logs in near real-time. 

A new potable water supply system has been inaugurated for nearly 14,000 people in Haiti as part of a United Nations mission…

Saudi Arabia continues to lead the race for installed desalination capacity with a new report suggesting it now contributes 18% globally…

I love Brexit, Ed confides to his diary, because no one knows what it is, which means it can be anything. As Baron Shoreditch Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, people seem to think I have inside knowledge about what Brexit is. In other words I can make it up as …

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A UK company specialising in enabling the manufacture of synthetic diamond-based electronics receives £750K of new funding.

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Littelfuse has introduced two series of transient voltage suppressor (TVS) diodes designed specifically to protect electronic equipment in vehicles from ‘load dump’, and other voltage spikes – load dump is the high energy transient created when a vehicle battery is disconnected while the alternator is running. AEC-Q101 qualified TP1.5KE and TP5KP offer a choice of …

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Li-ion cells in some Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones have been over-heating, and Samsung wants people to return them. It looks like folk are reluctant to do this as, according to Phandroid, Samsung may be planning to remotely turn-off Note 7 phones that are still out in the wild. If owners don’t return the defective …

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“In light of recent incidents and concerns raised by Samsung about its Galaxy Note 7 devices, the Federal Aviation Administration strongly advises passengers not to turn on or charge these devices on board aircraft and not to stow them in any checked baggage,” the US FAA says. We have been here before. Back in October …

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