You can now visualize the results of your Amazon Athena queries in Amazon QuickSight . Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Connecting to Athena from QuickSight is a 1-click process. There’s no need to provide endpoints, username and password. Simply select Athena as your data source, select the database and tables you want to analyze and start visualizing in QuickSight. Check out the AWS Big Data blog post to learn more about how you can leverage QuickSight with Athena. 

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports application version lifecycle management and CloudWatch Logs streaming.

Atlantium Provides Non-Chemical Biofouling Control Solution of Invasive Mussels to FirstLight Power Resources

The city of Clovis won its more than three-month-long civil trial against Shell Oil Co.

The Uber financials are the strangest ever seen. Of course no one outside Uber has seen them but that hasn’t stopped a leak tsunami. In the first half Uber was reported to have lost $1.4 billion, losing $580 million in Q1, well over $800 million in Q2 and $800 million in Q3. The expectation is …

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The semiconductor market will grow at 8% next year, says Semiconductor Intelligence. After 11.6% growth in Q3, companies are expecting a flattish Q4. For 2016 the outlook is flat, just as it was in 2015. Q4 looks weak based on the guidance from the above companies. Six companies projected declines in Q4 revenue based on …

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Infineon is shipping volume quantities of its first radiation hardened MOSFETs based on the proprietary N-channel R9 technology platform. Compared to previous technologies it is offering size, weight and power improvements. This is significant in systems such as high-throughput satellites, where the cost-per-bit-ratio can be significantly reduced. The 100 V, 35 A MOSFETs are ideally …

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Valencell, a biometric data sensor technology developer, and ST have launched a kit for biometric wearables that includes ST’s SensorTile multi-sensor module integrated with Valencell’s Benchmark biometric sensor system. SensorTile is an IoT module, measuring 13.5 square millimeters, which incorporates an STM32L4 microcontroller, a Bluetooth Low Energy chipset, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, …

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Antenova, the Hatfield antenna specialist, is launching a series of tools and resources to help product designers successfully integrate antennas onto new PCB designs, with the aim of making antenna integration simpler and faster for all designers. From today, the company is offering a free Antenna Transmission Line Calculator tool to help designers calculate the …

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Hynix is capitalising on the shortage and rising ASP of NAND by investing $2.7 billion in NAND fabs in Korea and China. “In order to grow further, it is important to secure production facilities in advance to deal with NAND Flash market growth to be led by 3D NAND solutions,” says Hynix. $1.8 billion will …

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