Today, we are introducing a new capability for Amazon EMR on EKS to increase job execution resiliency. Until now, users had to build their own custom job execution retry mechanism outside of Amazon EMR on EKS, to make sure their Spark jobs keep running in case of failure. With this feature, users can now save time and keep their business-critical and long-running streaming workloads running, by having Amazon EMR on EKS automatically re-submit jobs in case of failure.

It was ever thus – success breeds many imitators. Tech firms have been needing a saviour and OpenAi’s ChatGPT is being lauded as the NBT. Following the chatbot’s enthusiastic reception, a number of other similar ventures have been vying for attention. Cohere of Toronto set up by Google researchers has raised $170 million to develop …

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Plant monitoring stories always prove popular on Gadget Master, so hopefully this one will do well: the Arduino Plant Watering Kit is out!

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The 20 Premier League clubs went on a spending spree last summer, spending €2.25 billion during the transfer window, says Transfermarkt.com. The spree was fuelled by broadcasting deals worth roughly $13.5 billion over three seasons. The largest summer spender was Chelsea, lashing out a total €282 million on new players, and coming to a net …

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Sfera Labs has added the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4S (CM4S) to options within its range of DIN rail computers. Raspberry Pi aims the CM4S at industrial users migrating from earlier Compute Modules. Loosely based on Raspberry Pi 4 Model B electronics, it comes in the same DDR2-SODIMM-like form factor as the Compute Module 3 …

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Farnell has signed a new distribution agreement with Piera Systems to sell the Intelligent Particle Sensor (“IPS”) family of particle sensors. These sensors offer precision at a low cost and are designed for easy integration, making them a viable option for deployment in various environments such as offices, hospitals, schools and more. The focus on …

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It seems to be the week for high and low-side driver announcements, with STMicroelectronics now following on from Toshiba and Rohm. ST’s offering are, like Rohm’s, for automotive use. They are single, double and quad high-side gate drivers in a common 6 x 4.9 x 1.7mm gull-wing thermal pad package, “with pin assignments that simplify …

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KSAT, the Norwegian ground network specialist, is expanding its antenna capacity both in Antarctica and the United States. The company, which is currently installing four new antennas in Antarctica, at the Troll ground station (pictured), is also adding multiple antennas in Hawaii, Alaska and the US Southeast. It has announced it is also expanding its …

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The US Department of Commerce is announcing the stages by which Chips Act funding will be dispensed and details of the application processes. In late February, the Department plans to release a Notice of Funding Opportunity for commercial leading-edge, current, and mature node fabrication facilities. This includes both front-end semiconductor manufacturers and back-end packaging facilities. …

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Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) finally submitted its bid for Toshiba earlier today. The bid is worth $15.2 billion – about the same as Toshiba’s current market cap – and is backed by $10.6 billion of loans from  Japanese banks. $1.5 billion of the loans is earmarked for working capital.  A number of Japanese companies will …

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