The new Amazon ElastiCache console provides you with an intuitive way to manage ElastiCache resources with simpler navigation and richer contextual information. The new console provides a more consistent look and feel with other AWS service consoles.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. SageMaker Canvas makes it easy to access and combine data from a variety of sources, automatically clean data and apply a variety of data adjustments, and build ML models to generate accurate predictions with a few clicks.

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) announces its first points of presence (PoPs) in Argentina and Chile located in Buenos Aires and Santiago. The new edge locations will enable streamers and viewers based in Argentina and Chile to enjoy lower latency, better video quality, and increased capacity.

The Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device, powered by AWS Panorama, is now available for sale. Joining the existing AWS Panorama Appliance, the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device provides customers with another choice in price and performance for computer vision use cases using AWS Panorama. Customers can work with AWS Panorama Partners to build a wide variety of solutions for CV use cases across industries such as transportation, logistics, industrial, hospitality, and more.

Amazon Connect now supports up to six participants on a customer service call, enabling you to add all of the parties necessary to efficiently resolve the contact. For example, to help close a mortgage transaction, an agent at a financial services company can add a mortgage broker, the customer’s spouse, a translator, and a supervisor to the call to help resolve the issue quickly. This feature is available out-of-the box and can be enabled within the AWS Console.

AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. With AWS Lambda support for Amazon EFS, customers can easily share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, you can give Amazon Lex additional information about how to process speech input by creating a custom vocabulary. A custom vocabulary is a list of domain-specific terms or unique words (e.g., brand names, product names) that are more difficult to recognize. You create the list and add it to the bot definition, so Amazon Lex can use these words when determining the user’s intent or collecting information in a conversation. This allows you to enhance speech recognition and deliver an improved end-user experience.

Pimoroni, that stalwart of Sheffield, has combined an E Ink display with a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller to make a small Python-aware development-demo board. Called Badger 2040, the 2.9in display has 296 x 128 pixels and, being E Ink, retains its image indefinitely after power is removed. Also on there is 2Mbyte of QSPI flash, …

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Researchers have used VR and 3D eye-tracking technology to examine what draws the attention of visitors when entering the environment of an ancient Roman house.

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Moves under consideration, enabled by our no longer being subject to the EU’s restrictions on state aid to business, are to increase the amount which early-stage companies can raise while investors qualify for special tax treatment. Regulators for the Seed Investment Enterprise Investment Scheme ((SEIS) and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) are said to be in ‘preliminary …

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