The world’s most powerful X-ray machine, specifically designed for high-speed radiography in the metals industry, will be installed at the A.O. Smith Corp plant at Milwaukee next spring. So, 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 21st 1960 The story continues: The eight million electron volt linear accelerator is now …

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ST has appointed a head-hunter to find it a new CEO, reports Bloomberg. The contract of CEO Carlo Bozotti expires in May when he will be 64. The headhunter is said to be the London company SpencerStuart. They will have to deal with the problem that the French and Italian governments each own 14% of …

Read full article: ST said to appoint London headhunter to find a CEO

The University of Texas at Austin won the Beijing RoboCup 2016 competition beating the University of New South Wales Runswift by an comprehensive 7-3 in the the final. “We lost to a really good team,” said Jeremy Collette of the New South Wales team, “the American team was really good, they deserve to be the …

Read full article: University of Texas wins RoboCup 2016 final in Beijing

The LED lamp pioneer is returning to its roots. A brighter color bulb is coming, too.

Today, we are announcing support for DNS resolution of hostnames where instances have private IP address outside of the RFC 1918 space. With this support now available natively in EC2 DNS, customers do not have to run custom DNS servers if the CIDR range for their VPC is outside of the RFC 1918 range. Previously, private DNS hostname resolution was supported only for RFC-1918 assigned private address ranges (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, and 192.168.0.0/16).

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AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate on-premises workloads to AWS. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations. With the support of incremental replications, you can perform migrations faster while minimizing network bandwidth consumption and reducing server downtime.  

AWS Config is now available in the China (Beijing) region. AWS Config is a fully managed service that gives you an inventory of your AWS resources, notifies you when the configurations of your resources change, and lets you audit the history of the configurations for those resources to enable security and governance.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for October 24, 2016. 

Crews are looking to find areas where stormwater is seeping into the wastewater treatment plant from street, parking lot and building roof drains.