You can now launch R5 instance types when using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Amazon EC2 R5 instances are the next generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances. R5 instances are based on the Amazon EC2 Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your database instance.

This is a sad day at Electronics Weekly, as we just learned that our former editor Richard Wilson died over the weekend, with his family alongside, after a long illness. I can’t say enough nice things about Richard. At work, he was incredibly hard-working, wise, effortlessly intelligent and dedicated to keeping Electronics Weekly on an …

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AI start-ups Crossbar, Gyrfalcon Technology, Neural Networks Corporation and Robosensing are getting together to deliver an AI platform and standard for edge computing, gateways, cloud and data centers. The group, called SCAiLE (SCalable AI for Learning at the Edge), is already working with Japanese authorities to review opportunities for the 2020 Olympics, including video-based event …

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Qualcomm is sampling a second-generation 5G New Radio (NR) modem designated Snapdragon X55. It is built on TSMC’s 7nm process with 2G-5G modems integrated on a single chip. It is expected to be in commercial mobile devices this year. It supports 5G NR mmWave and sub-6 GHz spectrum bands with up to 7Gbps download speeds …

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It has sometimes seemed that the current US administration lacks a certain je ne sais quoi and now, thanks to a list compiled by  by the Presidential Pet Museum, we know what the quoi is – there’s no First Dog. President Trump is the first US president in 87 years not to have a dog. He …

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Hearing that there was a 3D printer around, a friend asked: ‘Could I print Braille?’. Hmm, not sure, but here goes: Caveat – the process below makes something that looks like Braille, but the result has yet to be tested by a reader of Braille. First, use a website to convert your written text into …

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The appetite of the tech giants for peoples’ personal data seems unquenchable. Now it turns out that Google put a microphone into its home alarm system  “The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs. That was an error on our part,” says an apparently …

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STMicroelectronics has boosted its STM23 family, adding dual 650MHz Arm Cortex-A7 cores to the existing Cortex-M4 (209MHz) to provide an upgrade path designers wishing to add Linux capability to STM32-based real-time control. The chip, called STM32MP1, gets its own open-source Linux distribution – OpenSTLinux – which contains Linux BSP, kernel, drivers, boot chain, and secure OS …

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AVX has expanded upon its proven-reliable wire-to-wire (WTW) connectors with the 9286-300 Series poke-home connectors for 12–18AWG wire. Designed to simplify the connection process in a broad range of industrial market applications that require high-current or large-gauge wires, the 9286-300 Series WTW connectors enable simple strip-and-poke-home wire insertion and twist-and-pull wire extraction, and employ a one-piece …

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Renesas has added to its Synergy S5 MCU series with the entry-level S5D3 MCU Group. The four new S5D3 MCUs join the mid-range S5D5 and high-end S5D9 MCU Groups with similar S5 Series features—integrated 120 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 core and advanced security—as well as general-purpose features that simplify designing cost sensitive, low power IoT endpoint …

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