The first-known practical application of lasers has now been announced by Hughes Aircraft in Culver City, US. So, 55 years ago, starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 22nd 1961. The story continues: An experimental radar system weighing about 25 to 30lbs and named Colidar (coherent light detection and ranging) has been built. …

Practical Use For Lasers Found

Stage and architectural lighting developers get wider color range from newest LED Engin product while Lumileds roles rugged mid-power LED and Osram Opto targets outdoor applications.

Today we are excited to announce two new predefined commands for EC2 Run Command for your Windows instances. To learn more about how to use these new commands, please visit the user guide .

You can now use upgraded versions of Apache Spark (1.6.1) , Apache Hadoop (2.7.2) , and an upgraded sandbox release of Presto (0.140) on Amazon EMR release 4.5.0 . Spark 1.6.1 was released in the community on March 9th, and it contains several bug fixes and updates to the Dataset API. Additionally, the EMR Filesystem (EMRFS) can now read objects from and write objects to Amazon S3 with S3 server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service keys (SSE-KMS) . Previously, EMRFS supported S3 server-side encryption with S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) and S3 client-side encryption with AWS KMS keys or custom keys .

The aim of the cross-Atlantic partnership is to share knowledge and to develop water technology solutions targeting the current water crisis caused by climate change.

SUEZ wins a contract with the American municipality of Putnam, CT to manage and operate its water and wastewater system for the next 10 years, with two five-year renewal options.

SAWS Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) reached its highest storage milestone ever this week, surpassing 100,000 acre-feet (about 33 billion gallons) of water available for future use.

Transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for the week of April 4, 2016.

Speculation swirls around the Wall Street Journal rumour that the exec in charge of Intel’s modem business, Aicha Evans, is to leave after under a year in the job. Having achieved a 1% share of the apps processor market in 2015, despite subsidising the mobile business to the tune of $4 billion a year, it …

Intel Mobile Saga Takes A New Twist

After a soft 2015 for the optoelectronics, sensors, actuators, and discretes (O-S-D) market, 2016 is expected to be a year of stabilisation prior to a return to normal growth rates, reports IC Insights. IC Insights’ 2016 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes sees combined O-S-D sales growing 5% in 2016 …

O-S-D market to grow 5% this year, says IC Insights