EPA orders Navajo Tribal Utility Authority to stop sewage spill, notify public.

The USA has 98 Unicorns which have raised a combined $67 billion and are worth a collective $372 billion, says CB Insights. Nine of the Unicorns are worth over $10 billion. The most valuable are Uber ($68 billion ), Airbnb ($30 billion), and Palantir ($20 billion), and all of them are located in California, the …

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Imec has joined the Google Cloud Platform for Startups programme which provides financial support for the coaching and training of entrepreneurs establishing tech businesses. Joining the Google programme expands the support the imec.istart program is able to provide to its startups and will further stimulate early stage startups to develop and market their innovative applications …

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Honda is talking to Google about teaming up with Google’s autonomous car unit, Waymo. Google put its autonomous car operation in a separate unit earlier this year after deciding not to pursue the development of its own autonomous car but continue with the development of driverless car technologies. In that respect it is hoping to …

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Samsung and TSMC have been hit by poor yields on their 10nm processes, reports Digitimes. With TSMC scheduled to begin 10nm production for Apple in Q1, this could be a problem for the Apple A10 and A11 processors processors required, respectively, for the new iPad generation an the iPhone 8. Production of the A11 is …

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ARM licensee Silicon Labs is confident that the change of ownership at the Cambridge-based processor firm earlier this year will not be a problem. In fact, ARM’s role in embedded low power microcontroller applications could become even stronger. Daniel Cooley, general manager of the IoT business at Silicon Labs expects the change of ownership at ARM to have a …

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Tom Watson senior, founder of IBM, wasn’t initially keen on the notion of electronic computing – it was Tom Watson junior who pushed that – but the old boy knew how to sell it. He put the machine, called the Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (SSEC), in the lobby of IBM’s HQ at 590 Madison Ave …

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Here’s a video going the rounds – Intel’s boss is told his modem is a screw-up: Wishing everyone many more laughs over the holidays and a Very Merry Christmas

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Amazon Elasticsearch Service now provides built-in integration with the Phonetic Analysis plugin, which allows you to run “sounds-like” queries on your data. With this plugin, you can easily account for misspellings and common phonetic variants of search terms, and return more comprehensive query results. The Phonetic Analysis plugin is pre-installed and ready to use on all Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains running Elasticsearch version 2.3. To use this feature, simply update your Elasticsearch field mappings using the Elasticsearch API to indicate which fields you would like to include for phonetic analysis and the type of analyzer to use. You can then run your queries as you normally do, and Amazon Elasticsearch Service will return results including those that match similar sounding terms, without the need for you to write any custom code. 

Now it is possible to use on-premises Active Directory (AD) user accounts with AWS applications such as Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition by using AD interforest trusts in AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also called Microsoft AD. New Microsoft AD interforest trust features simplify directory service configuration to use on-premises AD user accounts, simplify the end-user login experience, and enable simultaneous use of AWS applications and Windows workloads with Microsoft AD.