This iFixit teardown covers the evolution of arguably the best-known headset – the Touch controller, added to the Oculus Rift system at the end of last year.

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Having advocated Arduinos for prototype PWM signal generation, I have just discovered a subtlety that might trip up the unwary (amongst which I count myself). The original idea was not to use Arduino with the Arduino programming language, which resilts in rather slow PWM outputs, but to use Arduino hardware and assembler-code the PWM bit which …

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Toshiba has appointed Goldman Sachs to help with the attempted sale of a 20-30% stake in its chip business. First bids are expected the week after next with a buyer to be selected by the end of March. Canon, Western Digital, Tokyo Electron and various private equity companies are said to have shown an interest, …

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The story of China’s biro makes you wonder if China’s $160 billion initiative to spawn a chip industry is doomed. Although a big biro manufacturer, it transpired that China was importing the tips, so reducing profitability, because it did not have the precision machinery or the quality of steel to make the tips itself. It …

Read full article: A Communist Dictatorship’s Route To IC-Making

The Wipperfürth Bluetooth-based light-to-smartphone system marks the first known deployment of Osram’s “Einstone” IoT technology.

Royal Philips and Philips Lighting announced Q4 and FY 2016 results with LED revenue growing, while Cree’s quarterly results beat expectations even while decreasing year over year and Forest Lighting faces a patent fight over LED tubes.

We are excited to announce the release of Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.7, which includes 403 new improvements, fixes, and features to Amazon’s free, cross-platform 3D engine that enables you to create the highest-quality games, connect games to the vast compute and storage of the AWS Cloud, and engage fans with Twitch.

We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in Munich, Germany for Amazon CloudFront. The Munich location is our third location in Germany (joining Frankfurt and Berlin), and our 7th edge location in Germany bringing the total number of worldwide edge locations to 69. To see a list of Amazon CloudFront global edge locations, please see our edge location list here.

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EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now offer native support for the IPv6 protocol worldwide. Last month, IPv6 in VPC was launched in the US East (Ohio) region. We now support IPv6 in all AWS regions, except regions in China.

You can now use blue/green deployments with AWS CodeDeploy. Now, you can choose from two deployment types when using CodeDeploy. The existing deployment type supported by CodeDeploy is now known as an in-place deployment .