AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ clusters with two readable standbys. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is designed to provide you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers, and readable standby instances. Now, all of the data protection capabilities in AWS Backup including automated lifecycle management, separate backup access policies, immutable backups with AWS Backup Vault Lock , and compliance monitoring with AWS Backup Audit Manager are available for Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters.

This is a serious project, one for seriously skilled Gadget Masters, but fortunately it is seriously well documented, too. Check out this unusual project for making your own Smart Lamp in a very different way (we’re talking custom scripting of hardware)…

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Thanks to NASA for this one – the eight most useful technologies for use on Earth which were develiped for Soace: Fission Surface Power NASA is developing fission surface power , a green technology with zero carbon emission. When used with advanced fuel cells, fission power can not only generate clean and abundant electricity on …

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Not-for-profit EngineeringUK is warning that lack of Government planning and resources in the STEM educational pipeline is putting de-carbonisation at risk. “It’s clear that we could be sleep-walking towards a net zero engineering skills shortage without knowing how big the skills and educational gaps are and where they are,” said EngineeringUK head of environmental sustainability …

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A common refrain in the quantum computing field is that if you want value from a quantum computer, it needs a large, fault tolerant quantum processor – nothing else can implement quantum algorithms that perform better than classical devices. Until then we’re stuck in the NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) era of  noisy devices that are inferior to classical counterparts. “Our …

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Chinese computer maker Mekotronics has built an Arm-based PC around Rockchip’s 8nm 64bit octo-core 3588 processor, which has four Cortex-A76 and four Cortex-A55 processors. Integrated is 64kbyte of L1 instruction cache, 64byte L1 data cache and 512byte L2 cache for each Cortex-A76, then 32byte L1 instruction cache, 32byte L1 data cache and 128byte L2 cache …

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Harwin had added another option to its  Datamate series of  hi-rel connectors. Complementing the existing Datamate J-Tek connector range (fitted with jackscrews for secure mounting) with a 7.3mm board-to-board height when mated, the new female connector gives a significantly larger 17.15mm connection height. Providing more space between PCBs allows designers the flexibility to use larger …

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EPC Space has announced 100V and 200V rad-hard GaN power transistors for space use “with ultra-low on-resistance and extremely low gate charge for high power density solutions”, according to the company. Judge for yourself, these are the typical values: EPC7007B (200V 18A): 28mΩ 5.4nC EPC7018G (100V 90A): 6mΩ 11.7nC “These additions to our rad-hard product …

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A British-built research satellite, the The UK Space Agency has announced, completes the payload for the UK’s first space launch, taking place this year with Virgin Orbit from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay. A research satellite from RHEA Group, built in Oxfordshire by space company Open Cosmos, it will be sharing a ride with five additional …

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An over-supplied NAND market, which intensified in Q2 due to lagging demand and continued process advancement, will see Q3 prices down 8-13% with Q4 likely to see a continuation of the trend, says TrendForce, PC companies have reduced their purchase order volume in Q3 to digest H1 SSD inventory. 176-layer QLC SSDs have begun to …

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