Enterprise Support customers will now have access to self-paced training labs provided through an AWS training partner. These labs provide a hands-on learning environment based on real-world scenarios.

Thanks to the MIT Technology Review for this – the 20 smartest companies in 2016: Amazon Baidu Illumina Tesla Motors Aquion Energy MobileMe 23andMe Alphabet Spark Therapeutics Huawei First Solar Nvidia Cellectis Enlisting Facebook SpaceX Toyota Airware IDE Technologies TenCent

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The Raspberry Pi foundation celebrates a 10 million sales landmark by launching a premium Starter Kit

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Murata has created an energy storage component specifically for wireless sensor nodes powered by energy harvesting.

Read full article: Tiny energy storage cell for IoT nodes lasts for years

ARM has become one of the world’s most impressive technology success stories of the last 25 years, David Manners considers what its future may be under new ownership.

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We talk to Paul Hide, director of operations and private sector programmes, techUK, about challenges and opportunities facing the UK tech sector in the light of the Brexit vote

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I have a water meter. Because it is in the back garden, the water company fitter a wireless reading head. The meter is about 60cm underground, and it is at the bottom of a plastic tube (~20cm dia) buried in the earth. The transmit head is located (ish, see below) near the top of this …

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Did Intel management fall for that decades old Techno-Ponzi scheme – phase change memory. A hilarious piece in Semiaccurate points out that on launch in July 2015 the claim for 3D XPoint was: 1000x faster than NAND, 1000x the endurance of NAND, and 10x denser than DRAM. Intel’s Xpoint is pretty much broken By IDF …

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Texas Instruments has announced a microcontroller with radios for both sub-GHz and Bluetooth low energy, claiming it to be the lowest power dual-band MCU yet. Called the CC1350 wireless MCU, it offers a range of up to 20km on a coin cell for building automation, factory automation, alarms, security, smart grid, asset tracking and wireless …

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If you thought the self-ordering Internet Fridge was the ne plus ultra of fanciful IoT technology, how about a self-ordering smart ice cube?

Read full article: Smart ice cube finds money at the bottom of a glass