Amazon API Gateway now supports API usage plans. You can now easily define plans for third-party developers by associating them with individual API keys. This allows you to configure which APIs the caller can access as well as define throttling and request quota limits. You can also extract utilization data on a per API key basis to analyze API usage and generate billing documents. Usage plans allows you to easily manage and monetize your APIs for your API-based business. Read our documentation to learn more.

Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) now supports the Application Load Balancer for the Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service.

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Application Load Balancer for the Elastic Load Balancing service designed to improve flexibility and performance of real-time applications, microservices, container-based architectures, and streaming applications. This new load balancer, which also supports the WebSocket protocol and HTTP/2, operates at the application layer and provides content-based routing support. This allows the Application Load Balancer to route requests across multiple services or containers running on one or more Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, helping to reduce costs and simplify service discovery.

“Produced water to irrigation grade” achieved in a single modular system, now operating in Kern County near Bakersfield.

Evoqua’s Municipal Products and Services division will supply 10 new Envirex Series 400 RBC units arranged in two parallel flow trains.

High-Tech Harassment may have to go onto the Statute Book as an offence if a capability unveiled at the Las Vegas Def Con hacking conference becomes prevalent. In Las Vegas a couple of Kiwi hackers showed how they’d hacked a vibrator. This vibrator is made by a company called Standard Innovation and is branded We-Vibe …

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Rockchip, the telecom IC company, has licensed the CEVA-XM4 imaging and vision DSP to enhance the imaging and computer vision capabilities of its SoC product lines targeting smartphones, ADAS, drones, robotics and other smart camera devices.

Read full article: Rockchip and CEVA extend DSP licensing agreement

Rambus is to license its Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasures IP to Idaho Scientific to use in security IP Cores for FPGAs and defense ASICs.

Read full article: Rambus licenses Differential Power Analysis IP

How to build your own simple laser trip wire alarm. The author of ‘Arduino Project Handbook: 25 Practical Projects’ takes us through the steps.

Read full article: How to build a laser trip wire alarm with Arduino