We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Hindi and Dutch. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With these new languages, you can build and expand your conversational experiences to better understand and engage your customer base.
Fable: Hubris
39 years ago a Ferrari pulled out of the car park of a Los Gatos personal computer company, spun out of control, ploughed through 20 foot of guard rail and plunged into a ravine. The car’s owner, the company president, was instantly killed. A few hours beforehand, his company had IPO’d making his stock worth …
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GDP Forecasts Falling
In its latest World Economic Outlook, the IMF now projects global GDP to grow 3.2% this year and 2.7% in 2023 – the latter marking a 0.2 percentage point downgrade from the July forecast. With more than a third of the global economy expected to contract this year or next, “2023 will feel like a recession” …
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Nasa confirms DART impact changed asteroid’s motion in space
NASA has confirmed the success of its DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, to see if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course. We previously reported that a collision had taken place, but now Nasa has confirmed that the moonlet selected for impact has been affected in …
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Würth adds to coax connector portfolio
Würth Elektronik has extended its portfolio of coaxial connectors, rounding off its already comprehensive Coax Connector Portfolio. The SMA connectors are specifically designed for a frequency range up to 18 GHz at an impedance of 50 Ω. Thanks to their threaded coupling technology, they are suitable as data lines in environments subject to strong vibration. …
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Antenova adds Invicta
Antenova has come up with an antenna for the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee frequencies at 2.4 – 2.5 GHz. This new antenna is named Invicta, part number SRFW082. The Invicta antenna averages efficiency of 70% across the 2.4 GHz band. Consequently designs using this antenna will operate better, over longer distances and through walls and obstacles, …
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Flex and Onsemi team up to shrink 3kW dc-dc converter
A 23 x 18 x 8mm dc-dc converter that can handle a peak of 3kW has come out of a collaboration between Flex Power Modules and Onsemi. The 1kW continuous non-isolated and unregulated intermediate bus converter, called BMR313, has a fixed 4:1 ratio, taking in 40 – 60V outputting 10 – 15V. Efficiency is 97.3% …
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US restricts Sea Turtles in chip industry
The US has extended its embargo on the supply to technology to China by restricting the involvement of individuals in the chip industry, reports the Nikkei. As from yesterday, US citizens and permanent US residents have been blocked from supporting Chinese development and production of high-end ICs for certain applications.. Many of China’s semiconductor entrepreneurs …
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Farnell to stock Pickering reed relays for test and measurement
Component distributor Farnell has added the products of reed relay maker Pickering Electronics to its electromechanical portfolio. “Pickering Electronics has been market leaders for more than 50 years,” according to Farnell. “The reed relays are designed to a high standard and rigorously tested to ensure long life and optimum performance. They feature instrumentation grade reed …
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TSMC cuts capex 10%
TSMC has cut its capex by at least 10% to around $36 billion on fears for the market next year. “We expect probably in 2023 the semiconductor industry will likely decline, but TSMC also is not immune,” said CEO CC Wei. Q3 net profit was up 80% y-o-y at $8.8 billion on revenue which was …
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