AWS IoT is announcing a new feature for AWS IoT Core called “Multi-Account Registration,” which is now available in beta. The new feature allows customers to quickly move devices between their AWS accounts by specifying the account information when the device connects to AWS IoT Core. Customers opting to use this feature will use Server Name Indication (SNI) strings sent by a device and as part of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) session to route to the correct AWS IoT endpoint.

Three new Quick Starts deploy JFrog Artifactory on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in 30-45 minutes. The available options for deployment use your choice of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS).

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the release of Amazon Polly for Windows, an open-source engine that allows users to take advantage of Amazon Polly voices in SAPI-compliant Windows applications.

Today, AWS Systems Manager introduces the ability to execute Ansible playbooks directly from GitHub or Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) through Systems Manager Run Command or State Manager. This lets you use your existing Ansible automations and to benefit from the control and safety provided by Systems Manager.

Starting today, you can add python dependencies to AWS Glue Python Shell jobs using wheel files, enabling you to take advantage of new capabilities of the wheel packaging format . Previously, you were only able to add python dependencies using egg files to AWS Glue Python Shell jobs.  

Amazon SageMaker Neo is now available in 12 additional regions – Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo), US West (N. California). Amazon SageMaker Neo enables developers to train machine learning models once and run them anywhere in the cloud and at the edge. Amazon SageMaker Neo optimizes models to run up to twice as fast, with less than a tenth of the memory footprint, with no loss in accuracy.

Brexit is the elephant in the room that Electronics Weekly doesn’t write about, simply because no facts are available. Almost no sensible guidance can be produced by anyone, as everything is guesswork. However, companies are trying to prepare, and the government/civil service is at least maintaining a pool of information on what paperwork will be …

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OpenAI has created an AI algorithm that can write proper flowing English that makes sense – most of the time. Update below The AI is known as GPT-2 and, while its output is fiction, it appears to this untrained human that it coincidentally can contain a lot of facts. Essentially, the user feeds in a …

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Slow cookers are nearly evil. This has got nothing to with their cooking capability, I have spooned the most gorgeous dhal** from one, for example. It is their awful power consumption. Starting from scratch, I would think: pot, heating element, thermostat, insulation. Then maybe timer. Sadly, the makers of such things, in every case I …

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Wanting to built a small Li-ion cell into something, I was seeking a safe and simple way to charge it, and came across a plethora of built pcbs that include a micro-USB socket, a charging chip, a couple of leds and pads to connect to a Li-ion or Li-po cell. There seem to be two …

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