Amazon Connect now supports claiming local toll-free and direct inward dial phone numbers in Colombia in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. These new local telephony services enable you to support end-customers in Colombia.

With the July release of Microsoft Power BI Desktop , you can now create reports and dashboards using a built in, Microsoft-certified connector for Amazon Athena. This release makes it possible for AWS customers using Power BI for business intelligence to leverage their Amazon S3 data lake and federated data sources to analyze, visualize, and share insights with Power BI.

Thanks to Sloth21 for this one – the ten most uninhabitable places on Earth: Danakil Depression, Ethiopia Antarctica North Pole Atacama Desert, Chile Chernobyl Valley of Death, Kamchatka peninsular, Russia Death Valley, California Snake Island, Ilha de Queimada Grande, off Brazil Devon Island, Canada Bouvet Island  

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Eurostat  estimates show  the possible effects of  the pandemic on the most economically at-risk countries in the EU. Increases in working age adults at-risk-of-poverty were measured in Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece, Bulgaria and Sweden. Elsewhere, the situation remained more or less static, while Estonia record a decrease.

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Thanks to Canalys for this one – the top five smartphone brands: Worldwide smartphone shipments and growth Canalys Preliminary* Smartphone Market Pulse: Q2 2021 Vendor Q2 2021 shipments (% share) Annual growth Samsung 19% +15% Xiaomi 17% +83% Apple 14% +1% Oppo 10% +28% Vivo 10% +27% Note: percentages may not add up to 100% …

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been recovered to an operational status. The collection of science data will now resume, confirms the U.S. space agency. Its payload computer first experienced a problem back on 13 June, and the instruments were then placed in a safe configuration and science operations suspended. Since July 15, the spacecraft has …

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ROHM intends to move into mass production of its hybrid IGBTs with integrated 650V SiC Schottky barrier diode in December. The RGWxx65C series (RGW60TS65CHR, RGW80TS65CHR, RGW00TS65CHR devices are qualified under the AEC-Q101 automotive reliability standard. They are suitable for automotive and industrial applications that handle large power, such as photovoltaic power conditioners, onboard chargers, and …

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GlobalFoundries has announced its expansion plans for its most advanced manufacturing facility in upstate New York over the coming years. These plans include immediate investments to address the global chip shortage at its existing Fab 8 facility as well as construction of a new fab on the same campus that will double the site’s capacity. …

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Plans to create a new system to create digital identities have been published by the government. Digital identities allow people to easily and quickly prove their identity, such as when buying a house or starting a new job, without the time, effort and expense currently involved when using a physical document. The technology, which can …

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Amazon Redshift Data Sharing, a secure and easy way to share live data across Redshift clusters, is now available in AWS GovCloud(US) regions. Ability to share data across Redshift clusters in the same AWS account is generally available and sharing across Redshift clusters that are in separate AWS accounts in the same region is available as preview. Data Sharing enables instant, granular, and high-performance data access across Amazon Redshift clusters without the need to copy or move data. Data Sharing provides live access to the data so that your users always see most up-to-date and consistent information as it is updated in the data warehouse. Data Sharing can be used on your Amazon Redshift RA3 clusters at no additional cost.