Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now allows you to create clones to enable fast creation of a new cluster that uses the same DocumentDB cluster volume and has the same data as the original.

Today, we are making it easier for customers to view and update primary contact information on their AWS accounts using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS SDK. We previously released the Accounts SDK that enables customers to programmatically manage billing, operations, and security contacts for their accounts. Starting today, customers can use the same SDK to additionally update their primary contact information saving them the time and effort of doing it through the management console.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports R5b database (DB) instances. R5b DB instances support up to 3x the I/O operations per second (IOPS) and 3x the bandwidth on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) compared to the x86-based memory-optimized R5 DB instances. R5b DB instances are a great choice for IO-intensive DB workloads.

Where there’s hype there’s money to be made, Ed muses in his diary, and the most hyped sector in tech is quantum computing. The contradiction here is that there’s unlikely to be a useful quantum computer for donkeys’ years, but startups which announce breakthrough enabling technologies for quantum are raising astonishing sums. So how do …

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I drove a long way to collect an ebay ‘win’ in person, only to discover that the winner now needs to take a special QR code with them to give to the seller in exchange for the item. Much stress later, miles from home, and having signed in to ebay and email accounts to a …

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SMIC has been shipping a 7nm chip for a year, says TechInsights which has reverse engineered the device and says “initial images suggest it is a close copy of TSMC 7nm process technology.” Although it is a couple of nodes behind Samsung and TSMC, it is seen as an impressive achievement by SMIC because it …

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Raytheon Intelligence & Space has been awarded a $21.7m contract by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to replace U.S. legacy weather systems with the NextGen Weather Processor (NWP) programme. NWP is intended to ensure the improved safety, security and efficiency of National Airspace System operations by processing weather data and identifying possible safety hazards …

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A team from Glasgow University has won £600,000 in a competition to design a satellite. The 10 students designed a satellite to analyse shorelines and coastal vegetation to help scientists and policymakers understand the impact of climate change on coastal regions. The  Nanosat Design Competition was run by the UK Space Agency and Department for …

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Eutelsat, the French satellite operator, is expected to announce a merger with OneWeb this week Eutelsat already has a 23% stake in OneWeb and is its second largest shareholder. OneWeb was bought out of bankruptcy by the British government and India’s Bharti Global. Bharti has a 38.6% share in OneWeb, the British government has 19.3% and Softbank 12%. …

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In 1969, Victor Poor vice president of Computer Terminal Corp (CTC), had asked Intel to integrate onto a few chips about a hundred logic circuits which made up the processor of CTC’s intelligent terminal called ‘Datapoint 2000’. “Hoff (Ted Hoff inventor of the 4004 CPU) estimated that Intel could integrate it all onto a single …

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