Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the QTS Atlanta DC1 data center in Atlanta, Georgia. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones.

You can now use AWS X-Ray to trace and analyze your Lambda functions enabled with Lambda SnapStart . You can use X-Ray traces to gain deeper visibility into your function’s performance and execution lifecycle, helping you identify errors and performance bottlenecks for your latency-sensitive Java applications built using SnapStart-enabled functions.

You can now secure your web applications and APIs with AWS WAF with a single click in the Amazon CloudFront console. CloudFront can create and configure out-of-the-box AWS WAF protection for your application as a first line of defense against common web threats. Optionally, you can later configure additional security protections against bots and fraud or other threats specific to your application in the AWS WAF console.

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Management Console Private Access. AWS Management Console Private Access is an advanced security feature that allows customers to define a set of trusted AWS accounts and organizations that can access the AWS Management Console from within their network. For example, with AWS Management Console Private Access, customers can restrict access to personal AWS accounts from the company network.

Apple’s Q1 iPhone shipments were down 2%  to 58 million – by far the smallest decline among the top five brands with  Samsung  seeing shipments drop by 19% y-o-y according to. Counterpoint Research, Apple had a Q1 market share of 21% – second only to Samsung. Thanks to ahigh ASP and its healthy margins, Apple …

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Following on from the recent Raspberry Pi Pico Advanced Kit, check out Makeblock’s “mBot Ultimate”, which is described as a 10-in-1 robot building Kit based on the Makeblock platform.

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Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top six DRAM manufacturers:  

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Melexis is encouraging innovation and drawing on the rich pool of local technology graduates at its newly-opened Innovation Lab. Positioned in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel, the Melexis Innovation Lab is the latest addition to the Belgian company’s site in Bevaix, near Geneva. The lab was opened in December 2022 and is a centre for …

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Texas Instruments has releases an RS-485 transceiver that can be pin-programmed to suit networks with different bus voltage, logic voltage, network length and throughput. Called THVD1424, it includes switchable on-chip 120Ω termination resistor, slew rate control, and both half-duplex (two-wire) and duplex (four-wire) modes – allowing a single PCB type to be created that can …

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Toshiba has introduced a series of multi-channel digital signal isolators that “ensuring stable high-speed digital communications even in the toughest factory floor environments”, it claims. They have 100kV/μs minimum common-mode transient immunity (1.5kV common-mode, 25°C), and carry data rates up to 150Mbit/s. Isolation is 5kV for 1 minute. Called the DCL54xx01 series, they are four-channel …

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