Philips, Sylvania claim LED lamps are just as warm. Are they? And in a cat-and-mouse game, UK retailers hoard halogens.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service last accessed data is now available for the newly launched Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Service last accessed data helps you identify overly permissive policies attached to an IAM entity (a user, group, or role). With this release, you can view the date when an IAM entity last accessed an AWS service in this region.

Weightless-P hardware and an SDK in the Weightless Ignition Pack deliver Weightless-P network and IoT connectivity out of the box.

Read full article: Weightless SIG Ignition Pack gives out-of-the-box IoT connectivity

Japan wants the the EU-UK negotiations for Brexit to to be conducted in the open so that Japanese business can be aware of how they are panning out.

Read full article: Japan helpful on Brexit

London-based embedded design skills initiative, Hardware Academy has a scored a major coup by teaming with Intel to run a design challenge for IoT developers. Hardware Academy was founded in 2015 by David Bellisario and Fabiano Bellisario with the aim of providing professional training for IoT developers through workshops and seminars. The training sessions introduce …

Read full article: Hardware Academy teams with Intel for IoT

Vishay has up-graded its traditional analogue switch and analogue multiplexer lines using a new silicon process.

Read full article: Vishay upgrades analogue switch and mutiplexer line

The mixing of art and artificial intelligence at Tate Britain art caught my eye last week – an AI programme compares up-to-the-minute photo journalism from Reuters with British art from the Tate collection.

Read full article: Recognition AI system sorts art from news

With the TTIP US-EU trade deal negotiations allegedly in trouble, and with talk that a post-Brexit UK-EU deal may take ten years to negotiate, Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Alibaba, may have a great solution. International trade deals should be left to business people to negotiate, Ma tells CNBC. Of course the deals would …

Read full article: Trade Deals Should Be Negotiated By Business People, Jack Ma Tells G20

This week I bring you my guide to medical connectors. Even if you don’t work in the medical field I hope this is still worth a read as many technologies used are transferable qualities.

Read full article: Only connect: A guide to medical connectors

Allo has sent Electronics Weekly its Vana Hi-Fi system to try. Consisting of boards that sit top of a Raspberry Pi or Allo’s own Sparky single board computer, the boards do everything needed to make deliver dozens of watts to loudspeakers include re-clocking – which is what high-end Hi-Fi folk do to remove clock-based jitter …

Read full article: Hi-Fi system for Raspberry Pi and clones arrives at EW Towers