You can now launch M5 instances types when using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Amazon EC2 M5 instances are the next generation of the Amazon EC2 General Purpose compute instances. M5 instance offers a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources for a broad range of database workloads. 

AWS Storage Gateway is now available pre-installed on a hardware appliance, which you can buy directly from amazon.com, and manage from the AWS console. The appliance is based on a Dell EMC PowerEdge server with a validated configuration, and provides you an additional deployment option to the existing VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V or Amazon EC2 virtual machines available today.

Amazon Rekognition is a deep learning-based image and video analysis service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect any inappropriate content. Using Amazon Rekognition’s new face filtering feature, you can now have control over the quality and quantity of faces indexed for face recognition, thus saving on cost, reducing development time, and improving face recognition accuracy.

Cypress is claiming better audio from all-wireless earbuds – headsets without a wire between the transducers. According to the firm, which is sadly not naming names or numbers, the solution features a link budget that is 6dB better than competetors, resulting in up to twice the range – with the extended range improving cross-body performance …

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Powersolve has added a charger to its range, designed specifically for 36V, 10 cell lithium-ion battery packs. PFY105-42-2 operates from a wide (90-264Vac) input with a 2.5A output at 42V (±500mV). “At 105W, the charger will effortlessly charge Li-ion battery packs as well as the LiFeP04 variants that are popular today,” said the firm. The …

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Reserve a date in your diary for a Linux and Security training day in September, run by Doulos and Electronics Weekly.

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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Marvell covering  Marvell Fast Ethernet and Alaska Gigabit Ethernet PHY transceivers. The octal Fast Ethernet PHY family, including the 88E3082 and 88E3083 devices, features power consumption under 150 mW per port, enabling network systems manufacturers to decrease system costs by reducing both power supply and fan requirements. The Alaska Gigabit Ethernet …

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Global fab equipment spending will increase 14% this year to $62.8 billion and is expected to rise 7.5%, to $67.5 billion, in 2019, marking the fourth consecutive year of spending growth and the highest investment year for fab equipment in the history of the industry, according to the latest World Fab Forecast Report published today …

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Infineon has got together with the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon to form the  Security Research Group to identify and address requirements for robust, reliable security solutions that IoT users can trust. The Security Research Group focus will range from innovations in smart cards, identity documents and computer security, to methods for securing …

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oneM2M, the IoT interoperability standard, today announced the publication of Release 3, its third set of specifications. On the menu: dramatically enhanced 3GPP interworking – in particular cellular IoT – and new capabilities to unlock value in industrial and smart home applications. 3GPP, the world’s global standards-setting organisation for cellular wireless, has been adding IoT-centric …

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