Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Following the July 30th launch of 8 US English and 3 UK English voices, we are excited to announce the general availability of the first US Spanish (Lupe) and Brazilian Portuguese (Camila) NTTS voices. Both the voices are now available as Neural TTS voices, as well as Standard TTS voices.

Native AWS API access is now Available in AWS Managed Services (AMS) accounts. AWS Managed Services (AMS) operates AWS on your behalf, providing a secure and compliant AWS Landing Zone, a proven enterprise operating model, on-going cost optimization, and day-to-day infrastructure management. With the availability of Developer Mode you can now leverage native AWS API access to accelerate your ability to design and implement infrastructure and applications in your AMS Managed Environment without sacrificing the security, compliance, and operational benefits AMS provides. 

AWS Backup is now available in six more regions across Asia Pacific, Europe / Middle East / Africa (EMEA), and the Americas. These regions include: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), and South America (São Paulo).  

Amazon EC2 G4 instances which provide industry’s most cost-effective GPU platform for deploying machine learning models in production and graphics-intensive applications are now available in the Canada (Central), Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and GovCloud (US-West) AWS regions, bringing the total number of available regions to 15. 

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

The University of Bristol creates hand-manipulated robot arms with force feedback.

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Mouser and Molex have published an e-book about the changes taking place in industrial automation. The e-book, Connector & Antenna Solutions for Industry 4.0, covers topics in industrial automation, including digital twinning, deep learning, and neural networks. The book also spotlights the Molex Industrial Automation Solution (IAS) 4.0, as well as Molex products such as …

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Imec has developed a thin-film monolithic image sensor that captures light in the near-infrared (NIR) and short-wavelength infrared (SWIR). Based on a monolithic approach, the process promises an order of magnitude gain in fabrication throughh  put and cost compared to processing today’s conventional IR imagers, while at the same time enabling multi-megapixel resolution. To date, infrared …

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The LESA Centre at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York has pioneered and patented lighting-based Time of Flight sensing for privacy-preserving and occupant position measurement. Lighting-based Time of Flight (ToF) sensing plays an essential role in technologies ranging from safe, autonomous self-driving cars to SMART phones with facial recognition capabilities. Using the same concept, LESA’s precise …

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SkyWater Technology, the only US-owned pure-play foundry which operates an old 200mm Cypress fab in Bloomington, Minnesota, is to receive a $170 million investment from the US Department of Defense (DoD). SkyWater will be expanding its Trusted Foundry facility to add clean room area and supporting infrastructure to enable Strategic Rad-Hard and other complementary technologies. The initial …

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