On July 18, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 20.0.2, 17.0.8, 11.0.20, 8u381 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.

Amazon Connect now provides pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics, available via the GetMetricDataV2 API, enabling contact center managers to analyze aggregate contact quality and agent performance. These new metrics allow managers to understand how many times an agent interrupted a customer, the talk-time for a contact overall, by agent, or by customer, and how long it took for an agent to first greet the customer on chat. For example, using these metrics, customers can create custom dashboards to analyze if an agent’s average handle time is high due to higher than expected agent talk time, and if so, provide agent coaching to improve.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application, using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated natural language conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We are excited to announce the general availability of Analytics on Amazon Lex. Analytics gives access to rich insights and prebuilt dashboards related to Lex conversations, intents, slots, and utterances.

Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in Middle East (Dubai) and Europe (Zaragoza) regions. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database.

Today, AWS announces support for starting Amazon CodeCatalyst workflows based on pull request events in linked GitHub repositories. When a workflow is triggered by a GitHub-based pull request, users will also be able to see the name of the PR that triggered it in the CodeCatalyst workflows UI, and click a link that takes them directly to the pull request in GitHub.

We’re excited to announce significant improvements to the AWS Amplify JavaScript library, by reducing the bundle sizes for our Auth, Storage, Notifications, and Analytics categories. We’ve improved our codebase so that you get leaner bundles, resulting in faster load times and improved performance for your applications. You can benefit from these improvements by installing or updating to version 5.3.4 or beyond of the Amplify JavaScript library.

At the end of 2022, there were 167 semiconductor fabs processing 300mm wafers for the fabrication of ICs, including CMOS image sensors, and non-IC products such as power discretes, says Knometa Research. While the semiconductor market downturn persists, 13 new 300mm wafer fabs are still being brought online in 2023. These new fabs are mostly …

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The Wimbledon final might be the last when we see the rituals of a Djokovic appearance – the extensive pre-serve ball-bouncing, extended loo-breaks, time-wasting, racquet abuse, mind games and flashes of temper. The crowd, rightly IMHO, showed their displeasure at these antics. Djokovic was on the verge of equaling three records: Most consecutive Wimbledon titles …

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Orbital Composites, an in-space robotic manufacturing specialist, has won a $1.7m U.S. Space Force contract, to further “the development of In-space Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (ISAM) of antennas”. Collaborating with Axiom Space, Northrop Grumman, and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Orbital will be working on two applications: Satellite-Based Cellular Broadband (SBCB) and Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP). …

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SMIC chairman Gao Yonggang has resigned in a long line of departures, to be replaced by a vice chairman Liu Xunfeng (pictured). Gao, who was CFO before becoming chairman, had been in the job for 12 months. No reason was given for him leaving except that it was ‘a job adjustment’. The new chairman, Liu …

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