Today, AWS Marketplace released new feature enhancements to the Seller Self-Service Listings feature, a web-based interface that lets AWS Marketplace software vendors manage their product listings through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Starting today, software vendors that have product listings in AWS Marketplace can use Self-Service Listings to make changes to their Amazon Machine Image (AMI)-based product listings, including updating product metadata, uploading new versions, making changes to instance types and pricing, and more. In addition, Self-Service Listings allows vendors to create new AMI-based or SaaS Subscriptions product listings.

Customers can now use Amazon Athena to query data stored in Apache AVRO. AVRO is a data serialization system with support for rich data structures, schemas and binary data format. Click here to learn more about using AVRO with Athena. We also added support for the OpenCSV Serde, which allows you to process CSV files with customized separator, quote and escape characters. 

Fibrek S.E.N.C. fined $125,000 for deposits in Mistassini and Ashuapmushuan rivers

 

Acquisition reinforces Triwater Holdings’ Water Treatment Solutions division as a leader in the North American industrial marketplace

.My Hedgie chum has proposed a wheeze, Ed confides to his diary, it has become apparent, though not yet public, that some of the government contracts managed by private companies have been delinquent. A couple of these are public companies and the Hedgie, an old university pal, asked me the other day over lunch what …

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  Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, the Walther-Meißner-Institute (WMI) and Kyoto University have demonstrated the transport of spin information at room temperature. In their experiment, they demonstrated the production, transport and detection of electronic spins in the boundary layer between the materials lanthanum-aluminate (LaAlO2) and strontium-titanate (SrTiO3). What makes this material system unique …

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Smiths Connectors has created a high pressure high temperature connector series for the oil and gas industry. Called Vortex, the single-way connectors are designed for logging-while-drilling (LWD), measurement-while-drilling (LWD) and wire-line applications. With a mating boot and Hypertac  hyperboloid contacts, they work at 200°C, 35,000PSI, 500gravity shock and 10gravity vibration while mated. “The series provides exceptional …

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Semcon, the Swedish product development company, has developed a software upgrade for cars which pre-activates windscreen when a heavy splash of water is about to hit the windscreen. 61% of US drivers feel uncomfortable when overtaking heavy vehicles in wet conditions, says Semcon. Half of these say it is because an encounter with or takeover …

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President of SPTS, Kevin Crofton, has been appointed chairman of the Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult. “I look forward to helping to guide the Catapult’s vital contribution to the compound semiconductor industry in the UK,” says Crofton, “we expect the Catapult to bridge some of the primary research, development and test challenges that exist in the …

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China silicon foundry Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC) is considering whether to adopt FD-SOI reports Digitimes. HLMC, owned by the Shanghai local government, has a CMOS development programme with Imec and makes ICs for MediaTek. It views FD-SOI as a low-cost alternative to finfet. Consumer applications, where China fabless design companies typically focus, are often more …

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