Egil, ARM’s next Mali video processor due later in the year, has been designed to optimise performance between the various IP blocks through use of bandwidth saving technologies such as ARM Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC), writes ARM’s Roger Barker. AFBC can be implemented across the entire range of multimedia IP within an SoC and, depending …

Egil about to land

LED lighting in grocery cases can degrade milk, according to researchers in Cornell’s Department of Food Science, with exposure times as short as four hours impacting product quality.

Amazon SES can now include the original email headers in the bounce, complaint, and delivery notifications it provides through Amazon SNS. This feature enables you to more easily match a notification to the specific email that triggered it, because the notification can contain the email headers that you used when you passed the email to Amazon SES. Previously, when you wanted to match a notification to a specific sent email, you needed to store a mapping between the email and the message ID that Amazon SES returned when you sent the message. Now, you can add a custom header to the email and then retrieve that custom header from the notification, without storing the message ID on your side. You can include any other custom headers that might be useful to you. For example, resellers can now add client identifiers for improved tracking.

AWS Config Rules is a set of governance capabilities that allow IT Administrators to define guidelines for provisioning and configuring AWS resources and then continuously monitor compliance with those guidelines. You can choose from a collection of AWS managed rules, which are predefined, customizable rules that are based on common best practices. AWS Config now offers a new managed rule that checks Amazon EC2 instances for a specified tenancy (host, dedicated or default). You can provide an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID to check EC2 instances launched only from that AMI and also specify an EC2 Dedicated Host ID to check whether your EC2 instances are launched on that EC2 dedicated host. This rule enables you to assess compliance with your server-bound software licenses by checking whether your EC2 instances are launched on a physical server dedicated to your use.  

In December, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) released service last accessed data , which shows the time when an IAM entity (a user, group, or role) last accessed an AWS service. This provided a powerful tool to help you grant least-privilege permissions. Starting today, it’s easier to identify where permissions can be reduced based on additional service last accessed data. With this release, you have access to the following for IAM entities and policies:

We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in New Delhi, India for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53.  The New Delhi location is our third edge location in India (joining Mumbai and Chennai), and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 56. 

Saudi Arabia is to increase the proportion of desalinated water produced by private operators from 16 to 52 per cent by 2020.

Retrofits to continuously monitor and adaptively control stormwater flows.

Datwyler of Switzerland is to buy Premier Farnell for £792 million. “Both companies share very similar strategic values and are highly complementary in terms of product range, distribution channels and geographic footprint,” says Premier Farnell. The combined group is expected to have £1.3 billion revenues. The two companies employ 4,900 people. Datwyler, with a market …

Premier Farnell sold to Datwyler

The Weightless SIG is partnering with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). In a move to consolidate the LPWAN space the Weightless SIG will offer its Weightless-N standards activities into the ETSI LTN initiative within TG28, ensuring that all those interested in UNB solutions are represented in a single forum. ETSI is a globally accepted …

Weightless SIG joins ETSI