We are excited to announce the support for EKS clusters with both managed and self-managed node groups when using interactive Spark workloads via managed managed endpoints. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to run interactive workloads using integrated development environments (IDEs) such as EMR Studio .
Amazon Connect Tasks now supports custom task templates in flows
Amazon Connect now allows you to use custom task templates using the “Create task” block in Connect Flows, making it easier for agents to capture the right information to create and complete tasks. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers you to prioritize, assign, and track all contact center agent tasks to completion, improving agent productivity and ensuring customer issues are quickly resolved. For example, you can create tasks for scenarios such as investigating billing issues or new insurance claims using pre-defined task templates in flows and pre-populate data for agents with the information needed to quickly resolve the issue. Task templates are supported out-of-the box with no need for manual configuration for the Amazon Connect agent workspace.
Countries Which Lack Basic Sanitation,
The WHO defines basic sanitation as a toilet that is not shared with other households and is connected to sewage piping, a septic or composting tank, or a pit. There are still many countries where more than half of the population doesn’t have this, In 2020, these countries were located almost exclusively in Africa. Chad …
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How To Improve A Country’s High Tech Prowess
Governments are continually trying to find ways to make their countries more prosperous in high technology. The initiatives usually fail because they try to spot winners which is not a skill which governments tend to have. Towards the end of his life, when asked what he would do if he was Emperor of the USA, …
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QuadSAT raises €9 million funding to expand range of antenna-testing drones
QuadSAT, the Danish drone-based testing company, has secured an additional €9 million of funding to scale up its operations, with plans to expand its product range. The funding round was led by Cambeidge-based IQ Capital with support from existing investors, including the UK space tech fund Seraphim Space, Danish state Vækstfonden, and angel investors Torben …
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Dual output 40V DC/DC step-down regulator
ADI has introduced a dual output DC/DC μModule regulator with patented silicon, layout, and packaging innovations. Operating from up to 40V input, the LTM8080’s front-end is a high efficiency synchronous Silent Switcher step-down regulator followed by two separate low noise, low dropout (LDO) regulators. To further suppress switching noise, the LTM8080’s packaging integrates an EMI …
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Fujitsu and Osaka University develop efficient quantum computer architecture
Fujitsu and Osaka University’s Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology (QIQB) have come up with an efficient analogue rotation quantum computing architecture. The new architecture reduces the number of physical qubits required for quantum error correction – a prerequisite for the realisation of fault-tolerant quantum computing – by 90% from 1 million to 10,000 …
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DIY Chatbot startup raises $150m
Character.AI, a startup which enables DIY chatbots, has raised $150 million. The 16 month-old company, which has 22 employees and zero revenues, is valued at over $1 billion. The company was intending to raise $250 million last January and is said to be looking for more investors, though founder and CEO Noam Shazeer (pictured) says: …
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500Wh/kg and 1,300Wh/litre from lithium ion cells
Amprius Technologies of California is claiming energy density of 500Wh/kg and 1.3kWh/litre from its latest demonstration of lithium-ion battery technology. This is about double the capacity of today’s general purpose cells. “The energy density performance was verified by [test house] Mobile Power Solutions. The results indicate that this cell model provides >504Wh/kg and >1,321Wh/litre at …
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Smart textile sensor measures body movement to detect onset of fatigue
ETH Zurich has created a yarn whose capacitance varies significantly with the movement of the textile it is woven into. The researchers “integrated it into a pair of athletic leggings”, according to the university. “Simply by glancing at their smartphone, testers were able to see when they were reaching their limit and if they ought …
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