You can now configure AWS IoT Rules to route device-generated data directly to Amazon Machine Learning, enabling you to create machine learning (ML) models without having to learn complex ML algorithms and technology. With Amazon Machine Learning integration, you will be able to generate billions of predictions daily, and serve those predictions in real-time and at high throughput.
WaterWorld Weekly Newscast, April 11, 2016
A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for the week of April 11, 2016.
USGS to award $4M to improve groundwater monitoring program
The USGS is working with the Federal Advisory Committee on Water Information’s (ACWI) Subcommittee on Ground Water (SOGW) to develop and administer the NGWMN.
FLINT: EPA Inspector General’s Office examining Agency’s response
EPA Office of Inspector General to speak with early complainants about Flint water.
Amazon CEO Responds To Workers’ Mistreatment Claims
Amazon has come under fire for the way it treats its people. Now it has responded to criticisms in a letter from founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, to shareholders. The New York Times reported that Amazon employees work at least 80 hours a week, are sent emails after midnight followed by texts if not answered, …
Sharp makes flexible OLED; investing $1.84bn
Sharp, now owned by Foxconn, is to invest $1.84 billion into OLED development and manufacturing over the next four years, reports the Nikkei. Sources have speculated that Apple encouraged, and possibly assisted, Foxconn in its takeover of Sharp because it sees OLED supply as vital to its iPhone and iPad product lines. Sharp has developed …
Intel IoT microcontroller on sale at Mouser
Intel’s internet of things (IoT) microcontroller, the Quark is now available from Mouser Electronics. The D2000 is aimed at applications that require long battery life, such as wearable sensors and RFID tags. The 32MHz, 32-bit microcontroller contains 32kbyte of flash and 8kbyte of SRAM and there are 25 general-purpose inputs and outputs (GPIOs). Designed to …
Cadence tie-up puts Oxford on the global verification stage
The University of Oxford has confirmed its place as a specialist in formal verification of IC designs with the naming of Dr. Ziyad Hanna, Cadence vice president of R&D, as a visiting professor in Oxford’s Department of Computer Science for the next three years. Oxford’s Automated Verification Group has an international reputation and the appointment …
Industrial IoT nodes get fast route to
Moxa, a supplier of industrial networking equipment, is proposing that sensors and other industrial IoT devices can be connected over over 4G LTE wireless networks. The company has coupled a data logger with built-in 4G LTE communications with a gateway that connects to most commercially-available PLCs and RTUs, and an I/O module to collect analogue …
Being A Guinea Pig
Although Sony was the first Japanese company to license the transistor, other, bigger companies, like Toshiba, soon out-produced them. Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka at first took umbrage when a magazine article described Sony as a ‘guinea pig’ in this respect, but soon appreciated that it was an unintended compliment. ”One of our most important jobs …