Amazon Redshift launched a new getting started experience with the Amazon Redshift Serverless free trial. This will be the recommended path for first time users in regions where Amazon Redshift Serverless is already available, and will replace the Redshift DC2.large based free trial for provisioned clusters. In regions where Amazon Redshift Serverless is not yet available, customers can continue to use the two-month free trial of DC2.large node in provisioned clusters. 

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now lets developers combine video from multiple hosts into the source for a live stream. With this feature, Amazon IVS adds a new resource called a stage. A stage is a virtual space where participants can exchange audio and video in real time. You then broadcast a stage to Amazon IVS channels to reach a larger audience. You can also build applications where audience members can be brought “on stage” to contribute to the live conversation.

Deadline 10.2.1 is now generally available and adds new functionality with support for launching and managing Spot Fleets in multiple AWS regions from the same Spot Event Plugin and a new worker version tag for instances running on Amazon EC2.

This process, for which a patent was filed with the US Patent Office on May 1st 1959, changed everything: Moral: One man’s genius can change an industry

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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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Spirit AeroSystems and Astraius have announced a collaboration to build future satellite launch capabilities for Prestwick Spaceport. Pictured above – during a visit to the Spaceport by Scottish Government Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism, and Enterprise Ivan McKee – the companies formalised the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a signing ceremony. Prestwick Spaceport is a …

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Wearables sales will grow 6.3% this year after the market’s first-ever contraction in 2022, says the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Although 442.7 million devices are forecast to be sold this year. Q1 will see a decline in shipments thanks to excess inventory which is depressing both shipments and ASPs. IDC expects these wrinkles to be ironed …

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Asahi Kasei claims a record for its Klaran single chip UVC LED which emits at 160 mW in the ideal germicidal range of 260-270 nm. The device will be used to accelerate the adoption of UVC LEDs and hasten the widespread replacement of low-pressure mercury lamps. While the new device will retain the Klaran 3.5 …

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Virgin Orbit may be back in business after its failed launch in January following an expected $200 million cash injection from Texas VC Matthew Brown, reports Reuters. The cash will be made available via a private placement of  preferred shares with Matthew Brown entitled to convert his $200 million in preferred shares into common shares at …

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The Toshiba board voted this morning to accept a $15.3 billion offer from a consortium led by JIP (Japan Industrial Partners) to buy the company. Toshiba will buy out other shareholders, many of them activist, and be taken private. The JIP consortium has about 20 Japanese companies in it including Orix, Rohm and Chubu Electric …

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