You can now use upgraded versions of Apache Spark (1.6.1) , Apache Hadoop (2.7.2) , and an upgraded sandbox release of Presto (0.140) on Amazon EMR release 4.5.0 . Spark 1.6.1 was released in the community on March 9th, and it contains several bug fixes and updates to the Dataset API. Additionally, the EMR Filesystem (EMRFS) can now read objects from and write objects to Amazon S3 with S3 server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service keys (SSE-KMS) . Previously, EMRFS supported S3 server-side encryption with S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) and S3 client-side encryption with AWS KMS keys or custom keys .
Water technology partnership brings US and Denmark together
The aim of the cross-Atlantic partnership is to share knowledge and to develop water technology solutions targeting the current water crisis caused by climate change.
Putnam Water and Wastewater systems to be managed by Suez
SUEZ wins a contract with the American municipality of Putnam, CT to manage and operate its water and wastewater system for the next 10 years, with two five-year renewal options.
Texas reservoir reaches storage milestone
SAWS Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) reached its highest storage milestone ever this week, surpassing 100,000 acre-feet (about 33 billion gallons) of water available for future use.
FilterBoxx Water & Environmental announce large operations & maintenance contract
Transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for the week of April 4, 2016.
Intel Mobile Saga Takes A New Twist
Speculation swirls around the Wall Street Journal rumour that the exec in charge of Intel’s modem business, Aicha Evans, is to leave after under a year in the job. Having achieved a 1% share of the apps processor market in 2015, despite subsidising the mobile business to the tune of $4 billion a year, it …
O-S-D market to grow 5% this year, says IC Insights
After a soft 2015 for the optoelectronics, sensors, actuators, and discretes (O-S-D) market, 2016 is expected to be a year of stabilisation prior to a return to normal growth rates, reports IC Insights. IC Insights’ 2016 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, and Discretes sees combined O-S-D sales growing 5% in 2016 …
E-Ink to re-focus away from e-books
E-Ink is to de-emphasise its ambitions in the e-book market to focus on labelling, wearables, exterior displays, and auxiliary handset screens. E-ink had revenues of $414 million last year for a loss of $58 million attributable to the closing of its Korean subsidiary Hydis. It had licensing income of $100 million mostly from licensing its …
Acal BFi sells Tronics MEMS sensors in Europe
Acal BFi, has signed a distribution agreement with Tronics Microsystems and will sell the French supplier’s MEMS inertial sensors to the European markets. The Gypro series of inertial sensors has a bias stability (Allan variance) of 0.8°/hour. Power consumption can be as low as 25mA. Pascal Langlois, chief executive officer of Tronics, writes: “This collaboration …
Ofcom allocates spectrum for IoT
Ofcom is to allocate 10MHz of VHF spectrum in the 55-68MHz, 70.5-71.5MHz and 80.5-81.5MHz bands for the IoT. Currently, licence exempt devices including M2M can access spectrum in the 870-876MHz and 915-921MHz bands. Ofcom says that the low data rates of IoT applications don’t require more spectrum. Business radio licences will continue to be available …