The Big Bang Fair is looking for companies, education institutions and show organisers to play their part in next year’s Fair, taking place at the NEC in Birmingham, 15-18 March 2017. The Big Bang UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair brings together the STEM community in a collective effort to inspire over 70,000 young people, …

Big Bang Fair wants firms to get involved in STEM promo

Imagination Technologies has teamed up with Eindhoven chip security firm Intrinsic-ID to add a ‘physically un-cloneable function’ (PUF) to MIPS cores – initially the M5150 CPU – for authentication and anti-cloning. “With growing connectivity across nearly every product category from consumer to automotive to industrial and beyond, security is an ever increasing challenge, and the massive …

Imagination increases security on MIPS processors

Thanks to SEPAM for suggesting this Fable. 25 years ago this year, three Japanese companies, inspired by an abandoned attempt by IBM, built a computer based on a technology which had been conceived 24 years before by a Brit who won the Nobel Prize for his idea. After three years, the three companies succeeded in …

Fable: The Persistent Idea

Our LED business news covers Current, powered by GE adding six more ecosystem partners in its intelligent LED lighting initiative, while Nualight sells the Lumotech LED driver line to Fulham; and Philips Lighting signs a deal to light the playing surface at the Amsterdam Arena.

Although Nichia is an LED manufacturer, the company has targeted lighting manufacturer Feit, major US retailer Lowes, and distributors in legal actions seeking damages based on SSL products sold with integrated LEDs that infringe a long-standing patent.

Form 990 is the form used by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to gather financial information about nonprofit organizations. Data from over 1,000,000 IRS 990 electronic filings are now available for anyone to use via Amazon S3. Electronic filings from 2011 to the present are currently available, and the IRS will add new 990 filing data each month.

This new Quick Start deploys a standardized environment that helps organizations meet the following requirements: 

You can now quickly create cross-region read replicas for your unencrypted Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL database instances with just a few clicks on the AWS Management Console. You can use this feature to reduce read latency for your customers in different geographic locations, to create a backup of your primary database for disaster recovery purposes, or quickly migrate your database to a different AWS Region. 

AWS CodeDeploy is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region.

The company was noted for Most Disruptive Technology at BlueTech Forum for self-claning filter.