Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5 instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. C5 instances, the next generation of the Amazon EC2 Compute Optimized instances powered by 3.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Skylake), were introduced in November 2017. C5 instances are built using a new light-weight hypervisor, Nitro Hypervisor, which provides practically all of the compute and memory resources to customers’ workloads.  

The PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is now available in 14 regions. With the addition of the US West (N. California) AWS Region, you have a new option for database placement, availability, and scalability.

Starting today, Amazon Cloud Directory enables you to add additional, optional attributes on Typed Links. Previously, Cloud Directory had the capability to add attributes to Typed Links , with a constraint that these attributes were mandatory. Now, some attributes can be optional.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5 instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. M5 instances, the next generation of the Amazon EC2 General Purpose compute instances, were introduced in November 2017 to offer a balance of compute, memory, storage and networking resources for a broad range of customers’ workloads.

This Quick Start deploys an Auto Scaling group of Check Point CloudGuard Security Gateways to protect a web service.  

Researchers from  from Purdue University, the Technological University of Delft, Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that silicon has unique spin-orbit interactions that can enable the manipulation of qubits using electric fields, without the need for any artificial agents. “Qubits encoded in the spins of electrons are especially long-lived in silicon, but they …

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The iPhone X was the biggest selling smartphone in Q1 says IHS Markit, with  12.7 million units shipped in a 345.5 million unit msrket. iPhone 8 ranked second, shipping 8.5 million units, followed by the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus, iPhone 8 Plus and Galaxy S9 Plus.  

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LP360 is the first of the Fischer Freedom series of connectors – a series which has been designed to integrate with clothing. For easy connection, the key-less plug and socket can be presented to each other as any angle around the mating axis “ensuring that the cable can always go straight to the device. No more …

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Texas Instruments has introduced a 3.8 to 36Vin synchronous dc-dc buck regulator in a 1 x 2 x 3mm thermally-enhanced quad flat no-lead (QFN) package – with wettable flanks for post-solder optical inspection. Called LMR33630, and capable of delivering up to 3A, 75mΩ and 50mΩ power switches are integrated, efficiency is up to 92% and switching …

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ADI claims to have  the industry’s widest bandwidth RF transceiver with  a single radio platform IC to deploy 5G, sustain 2G/3G/4G coverage, and simplify phased array radar design. The ADRV9009 RF transceiver delivers twice the bandwidth (200 MHz) of previous generation devices and replaces as many as 20 components, cutting power in half and package size …

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