We are delighted to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Australian English. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With Australian English, you can deliver a robust and localized conversational experience that accurately understands the Australian dialect. You can also respond to users with natural sounding Amazon Polly Australian voices to provide a fully localized conversational experience.

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now allows you to create and manage EKS Fargate profiles using AWS CloudFormation. This makes it easy to template and configure EKS clusters to use AWS Fargate in a single step, or to add Fargate support to existing EKS clusters managed via CloudFormation.

Messe München will hold Electronica 2020 as a virtual event. The current travel restrictions in Europe, which are becoming more stringent, have required a re-thinking of planning. The digital format for electronica in November will give exhibitors the opportunity to book digital trade fair booths. electronica virtual will also provide all customers additional ways to …

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When Bill Shockley was assembling his team of all the talents for Shockley Semiconductor he gave  them this test deigned to assess creativity: ”127 people enter an elimination tennis tournament. Since it’s an odd number,one player must draw a bye in the st round.How many matches must be played to determine a winner?” Most people …

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Roey Benamotz has created the Lean Mean Programming Machine (LEMPA) – an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that includes all the sockets, jumpers, and indicator LEDs necessary to successfully flash a whole suite of popular MCUs. Benamotz has also  written a Python tool that handles all the nuances of getting the firmware written out. After …

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GDDR6 graphic DRAM will overtake GDDR5  in Q4 to account for more than 60% of total graphics DRAM bit output, says TrendForce. The lowered production capacity and high demand have resulted in a tight supply situation for GDDR5. Spot prices of GDDR5 8Gb chips are 10% higher than 3Q20 contract prices. Therefore, the supply of …

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I am worried that the price for a trade deal on Brexit is going to be restrictions on state aid to companies, Ed confides to his diary. A sizeable chunk of my investments to fund an agreeable retirement is tied up in young companies to which I have managed to funnel some government money and …

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SEMICON Europa has decided to go digital this year in the wake of the restrictions on European air travel. “With the approval of the SEMI Europe Advisory Board, we have made the decision to cancel SEMICON Europa 2020,” say the organisers. “We will take this as an opportunity to create a differentiated digital forum with …

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Imec and CMST (an Imec-affiliated research group at Ghent University), together with their partners the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz and Imec’s Holst Centre have developed an artificial iris embedded in a smart contact lens.   ‘We are convinced that this artificial iris prototype has all the potential to become a game changer in …

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The government made a $6.4 million loan to XMOS earlier this year, reports the Telegraph. The loan converts into equity if XMOS attracts new equity funding. The loan comes from the government’s Future Fund – set up with £250 million from the government and £250 million from private investors. The Future Fund has already invested …

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