We are excited to introduce two new enhancements to AWS IoT Device Defender ML Detect, Custom Metrics and Dimensions support. ML Detect now supports monitoring of custom metrics , allowing you to evaluate operational health parameters that are unique to your fleet. Besides setting static alarms manually with Rules Detect, you can now use machine learning to automatically learn your fleet’s expected behaviors on custom metrics. Further, with the new Dimensions filter  support for ML Detect, you can define attributes to evaluate more precise metrics in your ML security profile.

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup Audit Manager in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within the AWS Backup service that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory needs. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager helps you maintain and demonstrate compliance with those policies. With AWS Backup Audit Manager, you can generate auditor-ready reports to help prove compliance of your data protection policies with your defined industry-specific regulatory requirements.

We are excited to announce that AWS Config has reduced conformance pack prices by up to 58% depending on your usage levels. A conformance pack is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a Region or across an entire organization, helping you manage the compliance of your AWS resources at scale.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We’re excited to introduce the Visual Conversation Builder, a drag and drop interface to visualize and build conversation flows in a no-code environment. The Visual Conversation Builder greatly simplifies bot design. In addition to the already available menu-based editor, and Lex APIs, the visual builder provides a complete view of the entire conversation flow in one location. It empowers any user to build engaging conversational experiences more quickly.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the instance store for temporary tablespaces and the Database Smart Flash Cache (flash cache) for M5d and R5d instances. M5d and R5d instances are ideal fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches.

With direct VPC routing for AWS Outposts rack, you can now directly use the VPC private IP address of an Amazon EC2 instance on Outposts rack to communicate with your on-premises network. This new direct VPC routing mode is an alternative to the Customer-owned IP (CoIP) routing mode where Outposts rack uses a separate IP address pool provided by you from your on-premises network.

Thanks to IFI CLAIMS for this one – the top ten holders of metaverse-related patents in the last five years: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (158 patents) Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (122) Magic Leap Inc (109) International Business Machines Corp (IBM) (71) Disney Enterprises Inc (40) Facebook Technologies LLC (38) Adobe Inc (31) Verizon Patent and …

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Two weekends ‘ruined’ by bad weather meant extra time in the workshop – yippee. And meant a deep dive into a problem that I have not seen solved by 3D printing so far (and I can’t claim to have solved it yet, but things are looking promising 🙂 Update: prototype y-axis mount Update: thrust bearing …

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19 year-old Carlos Alcaraz won the US Open lastweekend to become the youngest male US Open champion since Pete Sampras in 1990 and the youngest Grand Slam winner since Rafa Nadal won in Paris in 2005. Alcaraz’ teenage triumph puts him among some of the greatest players tennis has ever seen, with practically all of …

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What can I say? One YouTube video (the levitating lamp) led to another and the next thing I knew the Ginko Moon Lamp was centre stage, playing and rotating and levitating…

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