AWS Lambda is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of CloudWatch Events in our AWS GovCloud (US) region. With this new region, CloudWatch Events is now operating at sixteen AWS regions worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to forty two. You can learn more about our growing global infrastructure footprint at our Global Infrastructure page.

You now have the choice of a second female German voice, Vicki , in addition to the German male voice Hans, and female voice Marlene. Vicki is a high-quality, TTS voice of a similar fluency and naturalness as the German voice of Alexa, able to fluently and intelligibly pronounce Anglicisms frequently used in German texts, including fully inflected version.

With the addition of this new female German voice, there are now a total of 48 voices in Amazon Polly’s Text-to-Speech portfolio. All 48 Amazon Polly voices are accessible worldwide from the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland). 

The company has been contracted to meet future nutrient removal requirements.

 

Sweden and Qatar have partnered to set up a wind and solar powered desalination project in the north of the country…

The Hall of Fame recognizes individuals whose body of work has contributed to the instrumentation and control industry in a significant and memorable way.

 

Join Tom Freyberg for a wrap up of the latest desalination news from around the world…

Samsung will invest $21.95 billion in its chip business this year, according to KoreaBusiness quoting Shinhan Investment analyst Choi Do-Yoen. Samsung, which invested $4.5 billion in its semiconductor business in Q1, hasn’t said how much it will invest for the full year except to say it will be more than last year which was $13 …

Read full article: Samsung may invest $22bn in IC capex this yesr

Capgemini has announced the findings of its Smart Factories report for 2017, carried out by its Digital Transformation Institute. According to the survey research, manufacturers expect their investments in smart factories will drive a 27% increase in manufacturing efficiency, over the next five years, which would add $500 billion to the global economy. Whether described …

Read full article: Capgemini survey measures value of Smart Factories

At the PCIM power electronics exhibition in Nuremberg this morning Infineon Technologies will be showing an intelligent power module (IPM) which has a single switch boost power factor correction (PFC) stage. The power module also integrates a 3 phase inverter in one package. It is designed to control induction motors and permanent magnet synchronous motors with single-phase PFC in …

Read full article: PCIM: Infineon adds PFC boost stage to motor module