Today we are announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Dallas and Philadelphia. Customers can now use these new AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency to end-users or on-premises installations in Dallas and Philadelphia metro areas.

AWS Lambda now supports Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ  as an event source, allowing customers to quickly and easily build applications that are triggered from messages in their RabbitMQ queue. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers in the cloud. Customers can build applications quickly and easily with Lambda functions that are invoked based on messages posted to Amazon MQ message brokers without needing to worry about provisioning or managing servers.

Arm CEO Simon Segars has put up a rather weasel-worded defence on the Arm blog page of his company’s ownership by Softbank and, potentially, Nvidia. “Under our current owner, SoftBank, we have invested heavily in new chip technologies which allowed us to enter new markets such as 5G networks and cloud computing,” writes Segars. Can …

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Farnell’s third annual IoT Survey confirms a rise in IoT for medical applications and  reveals the growing role of IoT for industrial automation and control applications for the delivery of Industry 4.0. The IoT Survey is run annually by Farnell. The top three industry segments leading the way in IoT applications are industrial automation and control …

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Today, the government publishes its Plan for Digital Regulation which aims to reduce red tape and cut down on cumbersome and confusing policy so businesses are freed to come up with new ideas, grow their firms and create new jobs and prosperity. The vision is to drive prosperity through pro-innovation regulation of digital technologies while …

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The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has passed the final mission analysis review for its launch, the European Space Agency has confirmed. It will launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. It’s an international mission, with the joint NASA-ESA–CSA (Canadian Space Agency) space telescope intended to succeed the Hubble Space …

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St Neots test equipment maker Pico Technology is celebrating its 30th birthday. The company designs and makes oscilloscopes, data loggers, RF equipment and automotive diagnostics products in Cambridgeshire, and has offices in the USA, China, Japan and Germany. In 1991, according to the company: Intel introduced the $258 486SX microprocessor – to be found on …

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Aaeon has introduced a 15.6in industrial touch screen all-in-one PC with a choice of Intel Comet Lake 10th generation Core processors. Dubbed OMNI-2155-CML, these are the first in the Omni family to offer a socketed processor – selected from Core i3, i5, i7, i9 or Celeron up to 35W TDP – alongside which up to 64Gbyte …

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  Four tech innovators are the winners of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emerging Technologies Competition 2021. The ninth edition of the competition’s final, held over two days, saw 24 finalists pitching to a panel of judges from some of the world’s largest organisations, including AstraZeneca, PepsiCo and Unilever. The winners gain a share of …

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RS Components is to stock the products of Amphenol Advanced Sensors, including devices for measuring temperature, gas, moisture or pressure. Some of them come under the Amphenol Advanced Sensors name (such at the thermistors on the right), while many of them carry sub-brands – for example: Thermometrics is an Amphenol sub-brand that covers a set of temperature …

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