When, in 1993, Shuji Nakamura invented the blue LED, for which he won the 2014 Nobel Prize for physics, his first thought was to show it to the greatest name in the Japanese semiconductor industry who had pioneered LEDs in the country, Jun’ichi Nichizawa. Nichizawa had tried to develop a blue LED ten years before …

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Daintree’s LED-centric network-management platform will serve as a frontend to the Predix analytics platform that Current, Powered by GE is targeting as the key to the industrial Internet.

Amazon VPC Flow Logs is now available in the Sao Paulo region. VPC Flow Logs is a feature that enables you to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from your VPC. Once enabled for a particular VPC, VPC subnet or Elastic Network Interface (ENI), relevant network traffic will be logged to CloudWatch Logs for storage and analysis by your own applications or third-party tools. Additionally, metrics can be created to identify trends and patterns. 

You can now use Apache HBase 1.2 on Amazon EMR release 4.6.0 . Apache HBase is a massively scalable, distributed big data store in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It is an open-source, non-relational, versioned database which runs on top of the Hadoop Distributed Filesystem (HDFS), and it is built for random, strictly consistent realtime access for tables with billions of rows and millions of columns. It has tight integration with Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive , and Apache Pig , so you can easily combine massively parallel analytics with fast data access. Apache HBase’s data model, throughput, and fault tolerance are a good match for workloads in ad tech, web analytics, financial services, applications using time-series data, and many more.

The Amazon CloudWatch Events service is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region.

AWS CloudTrail, a service that captures specific API calls and delivers log files to an Amazon S3 bucket, now includes logging for the AWS Support API. This allows you to track API calls made from the AWS Support console or from your code to the AWS Support APIs. Log information includes the API action, the date and time of the request, and the IP address and user name of the requester. For more information, see Logging AWS Support API Calls with AWS CloudTrail .

Amazon CloudWatch Events is now supported in AWS CloudFormation templates. 

Two state regulators and a Flint employee will be charge for wrongdoing related to the city’s lead-tainted water crisis.

Zurn is the only company in the plumbing products category to be included in the report.

The scholarship is an annual award of $5,000 presented to a graduate level student to assist with the development of professionals interested in service to the water industry.