The LSC computer-aided product development tool from Future Lighting Solutions now enables developers of solid-state lighting products to automatically trade off temperature and current settings relative to LED count while also adding flexibility in light source choices.

Strategies in Light (SIL) conference co-chair and Strategies Unlimited research director Philip Smallwood unveils the drivers and trends that led to creating an SIL track that questions the value of connected lighting and IoT in the lighting market.

Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that makes it simple and cost-effective to deploy, operate, and scale session-based multiplayer game servers in the cloud. GameLift has expanded regional availability to a total of 9 regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU Central (Frankfurt), EU West (Ireland), Asia Pacific South (Mumbai), Asia Pacific Northeast (Seoul and Tokyo), Asia Pacific Southeast (Singapore) and South America East (São Paulo). This expansion helps game developers launch game servers closer to their players to provide even lower latency and a better gameplay experience. 

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for December 5, 2016.

Continuing our Elektra party theme, here is another picture gallery of Elektra Awards guests, this time from he dinner itself. Can you spot yourself – or your colleagues and friends – among this year’s attendees? More pictures to follow shortly. The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2016 were presented at a Gala Dinner at the …

Read full article: Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2016 Attendees – The awards dinner (II)

  A 5-inch HDMI touchscreen display for use with Raspberry Pi is available from Winstar. With a resolution of 800 x 480 the display is available with resistive and capacitive touch options. It comes with a control board with HDMI interface and a 40 pin connector for connecting to a Raspberry Pi. According to the supplier, the TFT’s 800 x 480 resolution …

Read full article: Raspberry Pi gets a 5-inch HDMI touch screen

Check out our final gallery of Elektra Awards guests, featuring the after show party – can you spot yourself or your colleagues? The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2016 were presented at a Gala Dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel, and here is picture gallery from after the awards ceremony. Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2016 – …

Read full article: Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2016 Attendees – The after-party (III)

An alternative to batteries which could give electric cars the same range as petrol cars and the same re-charge time as filling a tank of petrol, has been developed by Augmented Optics and Surrey University. The researchers developed new polymers based on large organic molecules composed of many repeated sub-units and bonded together to form …

Read full article: Surrey University develops super-supercapacitor

Q3 semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached $11 billion, says SEMI, which is 5% higher than Q2 and 14% higher than Q3 2015. Q3 semiconductor equipment bookings were $11.3 billion which is 30% higher than Q3 2015?the same quarter a year ago and 5% lower than Q2. The Q3 billings figure by region in billions of …

Read full article: Taiwan leads semiconductor equipment purchases

The joint alliance made between the De la Rue company and the French Cie. Des Machines Bull in 1959 is now marketing all and types of punched cards and computers, and reports a year of successful progress. So, 55 years ago, starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 14th 1961. The story continues: …

Read full article: De La Rue Bull to expand from Europe to the Commonwealth