AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing customers to manage all Firewall Manager policy types and resources with CloudFormation stack templates. AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service which allows you to centrally configure and manage firewall rules across your accounts and applications in AWS Organization. With Firewall Manager, you can manage AWS WAF, AWS Shield Advanced, or VPC security groups across your entire AWS Organization. Firewall Manager ensures that all security rules are consistently enforced, even as new accounts or applications are created.

Amazon Rekognition is a deep learning-based image and video analysis service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, as well as support content moderation by detecting unsafe content. Starting today, you can detect text in videos and get back the detection confidence, location bounding box as well as the timestamp for each text detection. In addition, text detection in both images and videos now provides convenient options to filter out words by regions of interest (ROIs), word bounding box size, and word confidence score.  

RS Components has launched the RS Pro range of preassembled, prewired and modular LED signal towers. The series is designed to offer OEM automation engineers and maintenance buyers a cost-effective means of visually signalling equipment faults and other machine states, the firm says. Besides preassembled signal towers, the RS Pro range, comprising nearly 120 products, …

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UltraSoc is collaborating with  PDF Solutions on combined comprehensive data analytics with advanced machine learning (ML) techniques, with the goal of predicting and preventing chip failures in the field with unprecedented accuracy. The solution will combine in-life information from UltraSoC’s hardware-based behavioral monitors with PDF Solutions’ end-to-end machine learning and analytics platform to identify chips that …

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Moortec, the Plymouth developer of on-chip monitoring and analytics IP, is opening a new design centre in Bristol. It is Moortec’s  third design office after Plymouth and Poland. “We’ve a very successful Design office in Poland and our main Head Office in Plymouth – our new additional Design office located in the heart of Bristol …

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The global smart speaker market reached a new high in 2019 with sales of 146.9 million units, an increase of 70% on 2018, according to Strategy Analytics. Amazon remained the leading brand with a share of 26.2%, down from 33.7% 2018. Google retained second place with a 20.3% share, also down from 25.9% the previous …

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Socionext has developed a Time-Sensitive Network (TSN) IP for FPGA and ASIC implementation. The IP, which provides true deterministic Ethernet for industrial applications, is compliant with the next-generation Ethernet TSN (communication standard IEEE 802.1 Subset) and its evaluation environment. The company has been providing leading-edge, high-speed network SoCs for more than 30 years, and the …

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The world’s top-five wafer capacity leaders each had capacity of more than 1,000,000 wafer starts per month at the end of 2019 with the combined capacity of the top five companies representing 53% of total global wafer capacity, says IC Insights in its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report. In contrast, the top five capacity leaders in …

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Today, we feature Matt Timmons-Brown, who was a member of our initial EW BrightSparks cohort

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Filtronic has launched mmWave transceiver modules for E-band (71 – 76GHz and 81 – 86 GHz) applications in carrier grade mobile backhaul which it calls Morpheus II. Morpheus II is based on Filtronic’s E-band transceiver platform, of which over 36,000 units have already been shipped and deployed worldwide. Each Morpheus II transceiver module contains all …

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