Amazon MQ now supports cross-region data replication for ActiveMQ brokers on Amazon MQ. This feature allows you to build regionally resilient messaging applications using continuous asynchronous message replication from a primary broker to a replica broker in a standby AWS region with a few clicks, eliminating the need to use third-party tools or custom code to replicate data between regions.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) has increased the maximum per file system throughput on Amazon EFS Provisioned Throughput mode by 3x. With this launch, you now have a cost-effective way to drive up to 10 GiB/s of read throughput and 3 GiB/s of write throughput for workloads including machine learning, data processing, analytics, and transcoding that demand consistent and high levels of throughput performance.

The Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances  shows that, in 2019,  the latest year for which data is available, the average white family in the U.S. had a net worth of almost $1 million, while the mean net worth of Black American families was only $142,500. For Hispanics, this number stood at $165,500. Looking at …

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What are the topics covered? There’s new lithium-sulphur battery technology, AMD investing further in Ireland, an alternative view on AI, Intel teaming up with French lab CEA-Leti for cutting-edge research, and Intel making a $25 billion fab investment in Israel.

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The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) is today – 23 June – celebrating International Women in Engineering Day (INWED)! The event is now in its 10th year.

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In the chip business’ worst ever year, analysts were wondering if the fundamental economics of the industry had changed forever. “During a 20 year span from 1975 through 1995 there were only two declines in the IC market (1975 and 1985),” said analysts IC Insights in 2001, “however, in only a 6 year period, from …

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AI-enabled software for energy management systems can help the switch to EVs write Diego Black and Andrew Hey of Withers & Rogers. With energy demand set to climb as consumers switch to EVs in the run up to the UK ban on the sale of new ICE vehicles in 2030, software developers are harnessing the …

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Omnivision is sampling two additional sensors to its  Nyxel NIR family. Mass production i s scheduled for next year. The OX02C1S, is  a 2.5-megapixel (MP) RGB-IR BSI global shutter (GS) sensor for in-cabin driver and occupant monitoring systems (DMS and OMS) and the OX01H1B, is a 1.5MP mono (IR) GS sensor for driver monitoring systems (DMS). …

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Dracula Technologies, a pioneer in energy harvesting through indoor light, announces a new generation of LAYER OPV modules, with a 25 % performance improvement over the previous generation. Designers of indoor IoT devices, wearables, and any other component that runs on ultra-lower power can either generate 25 % more power using the same amount of …

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Swave Photonics, the specialist in holography for augmented reality, has secured €3 million in a seed round bringing its total funds raised to €10 million. Reinvestment came from imec.xpand, Flanders Future Techfund (FFTF), a Belgian/Flemish public investment fund, and QBIC, a Belgian inter-university VC fund. New investors  are Acequia Capital of Seattle, and Luminate NY …

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