Today, AWS announces the general availability of bandwidth reduction filtering for the AVC and HEVC encoders in AWS Elemental MediaConvert. The bandwidth reduction filter is a perceptual input preprocessing filter which removes temporal noise from video sources while minimizing impact on visual quality. The filter uses human vision system models to reduce imperceptible signals and temporal noise, which often originate from camera sensors.

Today, AWS Purchase Order Management announces the general availability of ‘Attribute-based & Resource-based access control’ for purchase orders (POs) created in the AWS Console. This launch allows you to tag purchase orders (POs) that are created on AWS Console and control access at a resource level with IAM policies. The AWS console also offers the ability to manage resource tags.

Roughly 750 migrants are thought to have been on board the Greek fishing boat which went down in the Mediterranean last week. Before that, The International Organization for Migration’s Missing Migrants website counted 1,166 migrants who had died or gone missing in the Mediterranean in 2023 (up to June 9). Annual figures have been rising …

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The Petoi family of programmable robot dogs has a new member: an ESP32 board powered “Bittle X”, which has the new feature of also being voice controlled.

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As preparation for a commercial launch, Skyrora has 3D printed a new model of its orbital rocket engine ready for landmark tests. The Edinburgh-based rocket company – which has developed its own eco-friendly fuel, Ecosene, made of waste plastics – has begun a series of full-duration tests to qualify the updated design of its 70kN …

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Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD). the GaN-based power IC soecialist, has signed a distribution deal with DigiKey. “This agreement is a significant step for CGD as we are scaling-up the business and building a GaN ecosystem that will help engineers explore and utilise the benefits of ICeGaN for high voltage power conversion,” says CGD chief comnercial …

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ST and  Airbus are to cooperate on the R&D of more efficient and lighter power electronics for hybrid-powered aircraft and full-electric urban air vehicles. The collaboration builds on evaluations already conducted by both companies to explore the benefits of wide bandgap semiconductor materials for aircraft SiC and GaN enable the development of smaller, lighter and …

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Yesterday Cisco said that its SiliconOne series networking ICs are being evaluated by five of the six major cloud providers. ‘Cisco SiliconOne is the only unifying architecture enabling customers to deploy the best-of-breed silicon from Top of Rack (TOR) switches all the way through web scale data centres and across service provider, enterprise networks, and …

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Omron is aiming at electric vehicle chargers and solar photovoltaic installations by adding a low contact resistance model to its two-pole single-throw G7L-2A-X series of PCB-mount relays. G7L-2A-X-SI has 10mΩ maximum contact resistance, compared with 100mΩ maximum for existing members of the family. Nominal rating is 30A at 600Vdc, or 25A at 1000Vdc (but see …

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Nexperia has added an 8x8mm package option, and a second 5x6mm option, to its ‘NextPower’ mosfet range which is designed to decrease spiking when switching to reduce EMI. “The Qgate.Rds(on) figure-of-merit has long been a focus for semiconductor manufacturers aiming to improve the efficiency of MOSFET switches,” according to the company. “However, relentlessly pushing this …

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