Intel is sampling a Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA .

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At the end of last month, the 40-foot Catalyst E2 max set a world record for driving the longest distance ever traveled by an electric vehicle on a single charge.

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The EU is is getting cockier by the day in its attitude to US tech companies, now it’s about to tell Qualcomm how much to charge for its FRAND licences. Not in so many words of course, but the EU’s proposed new guidelines for patent licence fees are clearly aimed at Qualcomm more than anyone …

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Time once again for the latest monthly breakdown of Android platform share. They are the official figures from Google, for the month of October, and reveal which versions of Android are actually being used ‘out in the wild’.

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Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows customers to expand their VPCs by adding secondary IPv4 address ranges (CIDRs) to their VPCs. Customers can add the secondary CIDR blocks to the VPC directly from the console or by using the CLI after they have created the VPC with the primary CIDR block. Similar to the primary CIDR block, secondary CIDR blocks are also supported by all the AWS services including Elastic Load Balancing and NAT Gateway.

We are excited to announce that Amazon EC2 usage of Linux based instances that are launched in On-Demand, Reserved and Spot form will be billed on one second increments, with a minimum of 60 seconds.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle SQLTXPLAIN (SQLT) through the use of the SQLT option. You can improve SQL query performance by using the Oracle EXPLAIN PLAN statement, and looking at diagnostic information on the execution plan of a SQL statement. 

Today we are releasing enhancements to the AWS Lambda console that make it easier to create, configure, and test Lambda functions. You can now save up to ten test events for each Lambda function. You can access these saved test events from any machine or browser using the console. Previously, you were limited to only one saved test event per account, and you needed to use the same browser on the same machine in order to access the saved test event.

You can now use Percentage as a built-in slot type in your Amazon Lex chatbots. Built-in slot types enable you to easily and quickly define slots in your chatbot to enable accurate resolution of user responses. The AMAZON.Percentage slot type enables resolution to percentage values. You can also now use decimal numbers with the AMAZON.Number slot type. The addition of the AMAZON.Percentage slot type further expands the Amazon Lex built-in slot library total to 97.

Singapore Technologies Marine Consortium has been selected as the preferred bidder for the 137,000 m3/day seawater reverse-osmosis desalination plant to be located on Jurong Island…