Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the with a few simple clicks.

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is announcing availability of ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) AMIs and group managed service accounts (gMSA) on ECS Linux containers through credentials-fetcher integration. gMSA is a managed account that provides automatic password management, service principal name (SPN) management, and the ability to delegate management to administrators over multiple servers or instances. This integration allows applications hosted on Amazon ECS Linux containers to easily authenticate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to access network shared resources. This integration enables customers to continue using AD as well as get the cost, reliability, and scalability benefits of Amazon Linux on ECS. 

Although the transistor had been invented the year before, the makers of this hat had to use vacuum tubes  when they put it on the market in 1949. The hat could pick up radio stations within a radius of 20 miles. It came in a variety  of colours: Lipstick Red, Tangerine, Flamingo, Canary Yellow, Chartreuse, …

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The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…

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Because of the continuous conduction at the input and output, I can’t seem to leave Cuk converters alone. The simulated circuit (scroll down to see just the Cuk part) And a mini-obsession over the last few years has been trying to find ways of driving a synchronous output rectifier mosfet – a challenge because the …

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I don’t know how many readers got an invite to the Coronation but I was surprised to see a picture of one looking more like an invitation to an Essex bring-a-bottle BBQ than something grand and formal and then I found that Coronation invites through the ages have been a bit naff:      

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Farnell has launched an eBook called The Innovation Experts – Series 2: Industry 4.0 and the Future of Manufacturing. The eBook shares the views of global experts including Omega, Schneider Electric, Advantech, ABB, Red Lion Controls and Eaton on the advancement of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and related technologies. The eBook provides insights …

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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced both a new Office of International Affairs and a Space Bureau, to better support space-based innovation. Both organisations are formed from what was previously the FCC’s International Bureau. The leadership personnel are Julie Kearney as Chief of the Space Bureau and Ethan Lucarelli as Chief of the …

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Lam Research has examined the potential for the use of AI in process development for chip fabrication. In the Lam study, machine and human participants competed to create a targeted process development recipe at the lowest cost, weighing a variety of factors associated with test batches, metrology and overhead expenses. The study concluded that while humans …

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Softbank has sold shares worth $7.2 billion in Alibaba reducing its shareholding to 3.8% says the FT. Last year Softbank sold $29 billion worth of Alibaba stock At one time Softbank owned about 30% of Alibaba worth about $200 billion, making Softbank chairman Masayoshi Son, very briefly in 2000, the richest man in the world. …

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