U-blox is adding inertial dead-reckoning to satellite-based signals to improve navigation in locations with poor reception – like challenging urban environments. To be implemented in ZED-F9K – samples planned from July – will have a multi-band GNSS (global navigation satellite system) receiver, inertial sensors (3d accelerometer, 3d gyroscope), signal processing algorithms and correction services “to …

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Diodes has introduced a boost converter that can supply constant voltage or constant current to drive backlights, with a dimming ratio of 100:1. Called AL3353, it has an input voltage of 9V to 40V – maximum output voltage is dependent on the external mosfet used as a power switch Dimming is internally analogue, controlled by …

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Tiny quantities of water might be ruining potentially useful organic semiconductors, according to researchers at Linköping University, who have a way to fix it. Key to the issue are ‘traps’ – places where carriers – holes or electrons – get stuck and are unable to contribute to semiconductor action. “There are traps in all organic …

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MIT engineers have fabricated polythene films that conduct heat – not as well as copper (401W/mK), aluminium (237) or aluminium nitride (140–180) but, at 62W/mK, as good as steel and better than alumina (30), and much better than normal polythene which is an insulator at ~0.4W/mK. “We think this result is a step to stimulate …

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The BrightSparks 2019 winners receive their awards at a special lunch and ceremony at the IET’s Maxwell Library in London.

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If this were an NFL game, it might go something like this: “Upon further review, spectra is indeed a big contributor.” Although the LRC tells LEDs that amount is still far more important.

The Amplify Console now supports incoming webhooks so developers can trigger builds in the Amplify Console without requiring code commits. Developers using tools such as Contentful or GraphCMS can trigger a new build on every content update. Other use cases include triggering daily or weekly builds using tools such as Zapier. To get started, visit our documentation or read our blog post on using Contentful to trigger builds in the Amplify Console.

The Amazon EKS Deep Learning Benchmark Utility is a new automated tool for machine learning benchmarking on Kubernetes clusters. The tool is built and open sourced by the Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) team.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports using the Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Amazon Machine Image (AMI) optimized for ECS, and also the Amazon EC2 A1 instance family, directly from the Amazon ECS console during cluster creation.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, Amazon Transcribe becomes available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

Amazon Transcribe enables organizations to increase the accessibility and discoverability of their audio and video content, serving a breadth of use cases. For instance, contact centers may transcribe recorded calls for downstream analysis to better understand key call drivers. Or a media house may want to generate automatic transcriptions for the purpose of subtitling video. Amazon Transcribe is available in both batch mode and real-time (streaming), while supporting a variety of languages.

Amazon Transcribe is now available in the following AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Paris), EU (Frankfurt), US East (Northern Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and GovCloud (US-West).

To learn more, visit the Amazon Transcribe documentation page .