Today, AWS Backup is announcing expanded regional coverage for cross-account backups in AWS Regions Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE). Using cross-account backups, customers can copy backups across accounts within their AWS Organizations.

Today, we are excited to announce the integration of Amazon SageMaker Model Cards and Amazon SageMaker Model Registry, allowing you to associate a SageMaker Model Card with a specific model version in SageMaker Model Registry. This enables you to establish a single source of truth for your registered model versions, with comprehensive, centralized, and standardized documentation across all stages of the model’s journey on SageMaker, facilitating discoverability and promoting governance, compliance, and accountability throughout the model lifecycle.

Today, Amazon DynamoDB local , a local downloadable version of Amazon DynamoDB, has migrated to use the jakarta.* namespace. This latest version allows Java developers to use DynamoDB local to work with Spring Boot 3 and frameworks such as Spring Framework 6 and Micronaut Framework 4 to build modernized, simplified, and lightweight cloud native applications.

Amazon CloudWatch now supports Service Quotas in Cross-Account observability allowing customers to track and visualize resource utilization and limits across various AWS services from multiple AWS accounts within a region using a central monitoring account.

When industry asks for government money, the key question is: How can government money help? In the semiconductor industry that’s a particularly difficult question to answer. There are plenty of VCs around who will support a good idea for an IC. If a good idea for an IC transforms into a designed product then there …

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Q2 notebook shipments will increase by 15.7% to 40.45 million units after six consecutive quarters of decline, says TrendForce, which expects Q3 shipments  to grow 6.5% to 43.08 million units. Q2 shipments are still down by 11.6% YoY and probably hit their lowest point in Q1. A widening consumer price gap could dampen the Q2/Q3 market market …

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As doubts arise about the viability of the 2030 cut-off date in the UK for the sale of new ICE cars, BMW is making a punt for hydrogen cars. “If the UK government wants to decarbonise, then get a hydrogen strategy, decarbonise the commercial vehicle sector and roll it out to passenger vehicles,” says Jürgen Guldner, …

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Wimbledon is using AI for commentaries this year. The AELTC has hooked up with IBM and will use the company’s Watson platform to provide commentary. The service will analyse ball tracking data and give information about the types of shot being used. The AI commentator is available on all Wimbledon’s courts and not just the usual …

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MEMS-based sensing devices by Aceinna are available from Avnet, following a global distribution agreement between the two companies. The agreement enables Avnet to sell Aceinna products which include inertial navigation systems (INS), real time kinematic (RTK) solutions, inertial measurement units (IMUs), and current sensors. The MEMS modules are suitable for use in off-road, autonomous, and …

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Chomerics has announced a thermal gap filler pad material with a conductivity of 8.3W/m.K and 40 Shore 00 hardness. “With the highest available thermal conductivity in its product family, ‘PAD 80’ maintains low compression forces and conformability between mating surfaces,” said Chomerics. “Very low compression force means the product will deflect under assembly pressure, minimising …

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