Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.

Contact Center supervisors can now use Rules in Amazon Connect to categorize contacts with more granularity. You can also generate an Amazon Connect Task for a supervisor to further investigate customer experience issues and follow-up, or configure Rules to automatically generate an EventBridge event.

Amazon RDS Proxy now enables you to create Proxies in a shared, centrally-managed Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). VPC sharing allows teams, each with their AWS accounts, to create resources into a centrally-managed VPC. This reduces the number of VPCs that you need to create and manage, while using separate accounts for billing and access control. To learn more about VPC sharing, see our documentation .

Amazon Rekognition Video is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content. Video segment detection makes it easy for media companies to streamline common operational tasks by automatically detecting frame-accurate silent black frames, end credits, color bars, and shot changes in video files. Starting today, customers can detect four additional segment types – opening credits, content segments, slates, and studio logos. In addition, customers get improved accuracy for shot detection and complex end credit sequences, along with new filtering options for black frame detection to handle varied file quality and color ranges. 

69 years ago two brothers founded a semiconductor company which made germanium diodes, silicon rectifiers, grown junction silicon NPN transistors, silicon diodes, silicon/germanium micro-diodes, silicon references, silicon regulators, silicon controlled rectifiers and bilateral switching diodes among other devices. In 1959 it was adjudged by Fortune magazine to be the world’s No.2 semiconductor company measured by …

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Much speculation has arisen about why the China government has blitzed the share prices of many of its leading companies and consequently the fortunes of many of China’s richest men. Some think that it’s Xi warning off possible critics ahead of next autumn’s CCP leadership elections. But some think it’s not internally directed – that …

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This looks a good one – a new book called Homemade Robots. It’s sub-title is: 10 Simple Bots to Build with Stuff Around the House.

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Cesium iodide can improve the stability and efficiency of certain perovskite solar cells, according to researchers at Kanazawa University. Added to cells of the ‘MAPbI3‘ perovskite structure, by alternately depositing thin layers of MAPbI3 and CsI, atoms from Cs migrate and become intercalated into the crystal lattice (see diagram). “Our approach allowed us to produce layers …

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The UK Space Agency has carried out a study to measure the effectiveness of its funding of space-related research over a ten year period – a “Bibliometric analysis of research linked to UK Space Agency funding”. It commissioned know.space, a specialist space economics consultancy, and Digital Science, a London-based research analytics company, to help produce …

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Renesas has brought out a PMIC  to complement Renesas’ RZ/V2L and RZ/G2L MPUs designed for AI-enabled applications. The RAA215300 includes six buck regulators, three LDOs and a coin cell/supercap charger. It supports DDR4, DDR4L, DDR3 and DDR3L memory with dedicated VREF, VTT and VPP rails. The device enables four-layer printed-circuit boards, which reduce costs. The …

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