Amazon RDS for MySQL supports encrypted SSL/TLS connections to the database instances. Starting today, you can enforce SSL/TLS client connections to your RDS for MySQL database instance for enhanced transport layer security. To enforce SSL/TLS, simply enable the require_secure_transport parameter (disabled by default) through the Amazon RDS Management Console, the AWS CLI or the API. When the require_secure_transport parameter is enabled, a database client will be able to connect to the RDS for MySQL instance only if it can establish an encrypted connection. To learn more about enforcing encrypted client connections using require_secure_transport parameter, please refer to the Amazon RDS User Guide .

QuickSight Authors can now customize the look and feel of their maps by changing to any of the new base maps supported by Amazon QuickSight.

• Streets – Authors can now add location details with streets base map. This base map emphasizes legible styling for highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, building footprints, and administrative boundaries.
• Dark gray canvas – Authors can now choose between light (existing base) and dark (new) gray canvas letting them align maps to the overall style of the dashboard. With minimal colors, labels, and features, dark gray canvas base map is designed to draw attention to your data.
• Imagery – Authors can choose to add more visual context to their map by choosing the Imagery base map. The satellite view of the world will help authors increase the understanding of the location data.

The US is dumping billions on the chip industry and for the life of me I can’t figure out how to get my hands on any of it, Ed confides to his diary, but I know a man who might. “Hi Greaser you old crook,” I greet him on the burner blower. “Kettle, pot, black,” …

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In need of a small high-temperature chemical reaction vessel with a lot of detailed features, BASF turned to Bosch Advanced Ceramics and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Between the three organisations, they developed a way to 3d print what was needed. The result is 107mm long and 16mm in diameter, with 500μm channels in …

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As the US prepares to dole out $250 billion to its chip industry, China is reported to have initiated three investigations into men seen as responsible for the relative failure of China’s costly efforts to develop a technologically significant chip industry. The three men are:  the former Minister of Industry and Information Technology – Xiao …

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Redwire, the space infrastructure company, has announced it will be creating a drug development and manufacturing platform for use in space. It is dubbed a Pharmaceutical In-space Laboratory – Bio-crystal Optimization Xperiment (PIL-BOX). Redwire will be partnering with Eli Lilly and Company, a U.S. pharmaceutical company, to conduct testing during initial flight missions for PIL-BOX. …

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Imec has joined euROBIN – a group of research labs across Europe which are researching AI-Based Robotics. The network is open to the entire robotics community and provides mechanisms of cascade funding for doubling its number of members over the next years. euROBIN comprises 31 partners across 14 countries. It is coordinated by the Institute …

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Google and SkyWater, the hi-rel fab, are to develop an open source design capability for Skywater’s 90nm FD-SOI process. This will then give IC design houses a route to volume production.  Skywater has been given $15 million for the project by the US Department of Defense (DoD). Google is to provide the  expertise and computer …

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Bosch Advanced Ceramics is making Wheatstone bridges to measure deflection in pressure sensors. “It does this permanently and constantly,” said Bosch, “and, unlike electrical insulation or a metal resistor, the signal cannot be distorted with technical ceramics.” The image is a demonstration tile with eight ceramic Wheatstone bridges.

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Phase change memory has been ditched again – the only vendor using it in an SSD was Intel, and Intel said it was dropping it in its Q2 earnings report. “We continue to rationalise our portfolio in support of our IDM 2.0 strategy,” said Intel, “this includes evaluating divesting businesses that are either not sufficiently profitable …

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