Determine the destination of an Elektra 2016 Award. For the Consumer Product Innovation category we are looking to readers to express their choice.

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In January 1980, after six years and three months of very hard graft developing CCDs, Sony started a CCD production line. To call the yield lousy would be complimentary – only one chip per several hundred was usable. “It’s more like an occurrence rate than a yield rate,” said the fab managers. It took 12 …

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While it’s a Raspberry Pi dominated list, other topics also covered include an Arduino plant monitor, Bluetooth devkits, smart ice cubes and a teardown of the new Apple watch…

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X-FAB Silicon Foundries has today announced that it will acquire the assets of Altis Semiconductor, a specialty stand-alone foundry located in the Greater Paris area, out of insolvency proceedings.

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Floodlights are the elephant in the room in their new partnership at FirstEnergy Stadium, where the games will continue under existing fixtures. Bright new concourses for the fans, though.

We are excited to announce the availability of P2 instances, a new instance type designed for compute-intensive applications that require high-performance GPU coprocessors and massive parallel floating point performance. P2 instances are ideal for deep learning, computational fluid dynamics, computational finance, seismic analysis, molecular modeling, genomics, and rendering workloads. For graphics workloads requiring DirectX and OpenGL, you can continue to use G2 instances. 

You can now use time zones as part of time stamps in Amazon Redshift. The new TIMESTAMPTZ data type allows you to input timestamp values that include a time zone. Amazon Redshift automatically converts timestamps to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and stores the UTC values. Also, the COPY command now recognizes timestamp values with time zones in the source data and automatically converts them to UTC.  You can retrieve and display timestamps in Amazon Redshift by setting your preferred time zone at the session level , user level or client connection level.  

Amazon Game Studios announced their new game, Breakaway, at TwitchCon this year. Breakaway is a mythological sport brawler built for fast action, teamwork, and live streaming. AGS also announced new upcoming features that are built for Twitch: Stream+, Twitch Metastream, Broadcaster Match Builder and Broadcaster Spotlight.

To learn about Breakaway and more, visit playbreakaway.com and follow @PlayBreakaway on Twitter .

Amazon Elastic Transcoder lets you convert source media files into formats that will playback on devices like smartphones, tablets and PCs. It manages all aspects of the media transcoding process for you transparently and automatically. There’s no need to administer software, scale hardware, tune performance, or otherwise manage transcoding infrastructure. You simply create a transcoding “job” specifying the location of your source media file and how you want it transcoded. Amazon Elastic Transcoder also provides transcoding presets for popular output formats, which means that you don’t need to guess about which settings work best on particular devices. All these features are available via service API, AWS SDKs and the AWS Management Console .