Starting today, you can remove your AWS account from launch permissions for an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that was directly shared with your AWS account. You can leverage this capability, for example, to reduce the likelihood of launching an EC2 instance with an unused or deprecated AMI that was shared with you earlier.
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Middle East (UAE) AWS region
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose makes it easier to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. You can use it to capture, transform, and deliver streaming data to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch, and third party providers like Splunk and Datadog, enabling near real-time analytics.
Fable: The Guy Who Got Ahead Of His Times
There was once a lute player’s son who dropped out of college and studied first to be a monk and then to be a doctor, before settling to pursue mathematics. He had three illegitimate children who all became nuns and was sentenced to life imprisonment although, 359 years later, he was pardoned. His astronomical observations …
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Gadget Watch: Starlink satellite broadband gets on the go
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband service is starting to materialise: the company has started taking pre-orders for its Flat High Performance Starlink for people on the go.
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Mobile BS
The race to stand still in mobile telecoms is getting expensive. Japan is budgeting $450 million for 6G R&D in FY 2023; the EU is investing €900 million in 6G research from 2021 to 2027; Germany is spending €700 million euros on its own 6G R&D from 2021 to 2025, and China is spending goodness …
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Toshiba: PC-based tools for motor control design
Toshiba has introduced PC-based design tools for motor control, as part of ‘MCU Motor Studio’ which includes firmware its TXZ+4A microcontrollers and hardware evaluation boards. “The MCU Motor Studio firmware suite supports all common motor control strategies including sinewave commutation and field-oriented vector control, sensor-less or with position sensing,” according to the company. “There is …
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‘Paper’ supercaps reach 10F
Researchers at Sweden’s Digital Cellulose Center have improved their paper supercapacitor technology, getting 10F from a demonstration device. The active ingredient of the capacitor is a water-based ink made from the conductive polymer PEDOT:PSS and cellulose pulp derived from softwood, plus some other ingredients including activated carbon. Previously, the Center screen-printed this onto an aluminium-coated …
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Electronica: TI’s Matter-enabled SDKs for Wi-Fi and Thread
Texas Instruments has introduced Matter-enabled software development kits for its Wi-Fi and Thread wireless microcontrollers. “Engineers can use the software and wireless MCUs, such as the CC3235SF and CC2652R7, to create low-power secure battery-powered smart home and industrial automation IoT applications that connect with devices across proprietary ecosystems,” according to the company. Matter is a …
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Accurate temperature and humidity sensors are tiny
ScioSense has launced a family of digital temperature and humidity sensors with accuracies down to 0.1°C and 0.8% relative humidity. ENS21x sensors (see below) are aimed at home appliances, building air conditioning, automotive air conditioning, cold chain management, health monitoring, industrial automation and instrumentation. Response can be in under a second for temperature and three …
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General Saltzman takes leadership of U.S. Space Force
General B. Chance Saltzman has been officially installed as the new U.S. Chief of Space Operations, the Space Force’s highest-ranking military post. Saltzman succeeds General John W. “Jay” Raymond who was the first to lead the newly created arm of U.S. military services. The Space Force’s responsibilities are training, equipping and organising a cadre of …
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