Today, we are enhancing the AWS Organizations console to enable you to centrally view and update the region opt-in settings for your AWS accounts. With this launch, you can now use the console to easily perform these operations without logging into each account separately. We already launched Organizations console support for alternate contacts and primary contact information, and support for additional account settings will be available in future releases.

AWS Cloud Map is now available in Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other cloud resources. You can then use these custom names to discover the location and metadata of cloud resources from your applications using AWS SDK and authenticated API queries.

Starting today, we are launching the AWS Network Firewall service in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).

How often these days do you see people furtively consulting their phone to check on the ‘right’ line on some topic? You are lucky if you say ‘never’ because your mates obviously think for themselves. In a world where people are increasingly bullied into the PC consensus, these are the kind of mates to have. …

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135 years ago, a medical equipment repairman was called upon by the school at his hometown of Hammamatsu as the only guy locally who might be able to repair  an expensive US organ made by Mason and Hamlin. The repairman repaired the organ and, in doing so, became intrigued by it. He made notes on …

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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has entered into an R&D cooperation research with AIM Photonics that will give chip developers a critical new tool for designing both opto and electrical iCs AIM Photonics, a Manufacturing USA institute, is a public-private partnership that accelerates the commercialisation of new technologies …

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The UK space regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), has given its go ahead to Virgin Orbit to carry out space launches from Spaceport Cornwall. This will represent the first satellite launch from European soil. Specifically, it has issued launch and range licences to Virgin Orbit to undertake launch activities from the UK. Public safety, …

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Synchron, which has developed an implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) device – has picked up a $75 billion investment from Jeff Bezos to add to investments from Bill Gates and VC Vinod Khosla. Total funding is $145 million. Synchron’s Stentrode Endocascular Electrode Array is impanted in the brain via the jugular vein. The  implant works by …

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Micron says it will reduce its workforce by 10% in the course of next year. Sales will be about $3.8 billion in the December-February quarter. In the September-November quarter sales fell 47% to $4.09 billion. Last month Micron said ir would be cutting production by 20%. Capex will be cut from $12 billion to $7.5 …

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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now offers fully managed capabilities to stream video and audio in real-time from Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) standards compliant cameras, IoT devices and browsers to the cloud for secured storage, playback and analytical processing. Customers can now use our enhanced WebRTC SDK and cloud APIs to enable real-time streaming as well as media ingestion to the cloud.