Today, we released the Amazon DynamoDB key diagnostics library, which provides near-real-time key usage information for DynamoDB. This library is a lightweight, client-side utility that can help you to analyze your table’s traffic and display visualizations that show the number of reads and writes to each partition key. By using the library, you can adjust to unpredictable and uneven workloads in near-real time. To learn more about the library, how to set it up, and to identify hot keys, see How to use the new Amazon DynamoDB key diagnostics library to visualize and understand your application’s traffic patterns .

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs  for Ubuntu  and Amazon Linux  now come with newer versions of the following deep learning frameworks: PyTorch 1.0 , MXNet 1.3.1 , and Chainer 5.1 . This release also includes upgrades of the NVIDIA stack, including CUDA 10, cuDNN 7.4.1, and NCCL 2.3.7. For GPU-based training, PyTorch 1.0 in the AMIs is fully configured to take advantage of performance improvements in CUDA 10.

Students in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at University College Dublin can learn production technologies for Industry 4.0, or the smart factory, with hands-on experience via an automated factory demonstration unit, donated by Maxim Integrated Products. The football factory demo was popular at exhibitions around Europe, where it was used to showcase the …

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STMicroelectronics’ MDmesh M6 600V super-junction transistors are aimed at medium-power resonant and hard-switching converter topologies. There are 37 part numbers covering 13 to 72A, with threshold voltage optimised for soft switching, suiting the transistors LLC resonant converters and boost-PFC converters. Rds(on) to as low as 36mΩ. For hard-switching topologies, the capacitance profile is claimed to enhance …

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Connector distributor and cable assembly manufacturer, Jacarem, has signed a franchise distribution agreement with interconnect specialist, EDAC. The latter provides card edge, rack and panel, RJ45 and telecomms jacks, USB and FireWire, waterproof connectors and PLCC sockets. MH Connectors, which manufactures connectors, hoods and covers, is also part of the EDAC group. The D-sub hoods …

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750,000 people may never know it, but their jobs could have been saved by the PM’s victory in her Confidence Vote last night. Ever since the Vote was announced, the £ has strengthened and the FTSE has risen. That’s because the expected success by the PM would keep her in her job for another year and …

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Intel has cone up with a packaging technology called  ‘Foveros’. Foveros ‘paves the way for devices and systems combining high-performance, high-density and low-power silicon process technologies,’ says Intel, ‘Foveros is expected to extend die stacking beyond traditional passive interposers and stacked memory to high-performance logic, such as CPU, graphics and AI processors.’ Intel adds that …

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AVX has added a new part to its 9176-800 Series low-profile insulation displacement connectors (IDCs) — the first and currently only industrial IDCs available in a 2.55mm profile — to accommodate an additional wire gauge and further expand application suitability. Now available in one to four positions in each of four wire gauges, the series’ …

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Silicon Storage Technology (SST) is to work with Hynix System IC on embedding NOR memory in Hynix’s 110nm CMOS process. SST, now a subsidiary of Microchip,  calls its embedded NOR ‘SuperFlash’. SST claims that SuperFlash delivers low-power, high reliability, fast erase, and superior data retention and endurance for a range of applications, such as IoT, smart …

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Premier Farnell is to distribute the Binary Bots range of educational robots. BinaryBots specialise in developing educational robot starter kits to help teachers make Physical Computing and core STEM principles simple and fun for children aged eight years old and above. With a strong focus on accessibility and affordability, their products include a ‘Cardboard2Code’ beginners range, …

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