Stanford University develops artificial intelligence that can diagnose skin cancer as well as dermatologists, it claims.

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Intel had 2016 revenues of $59.4 billion, operating income of $12.9 billion, net income of $10.3 billion and cash flow of $21.8 billion. For Q4, Intel had revenue of $16.4 billion, operating of $4.5 billion, net income of $3.6 billion. The PC business grew 2% in 2016; Thee data centre business grew 8% to $17.2 …

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The Raspberry Pi Guy is a young electronics enthusiast behind the eponymous YouTube channel TheRaspberryPiGuy, which has already totalled four million views (and counting).

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The UK Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is to develop ways to print the electronics of RFID labels, with £2.6m from the European Regional Development Fund.

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53 years ago a compsny described the idea of an ASIC at the 1963 Wescon Show – the first time that the idea of customisable ICs had been suggested. The company suggested it would make standard RTL parts but have customers design a unique metal interconnect mask. The idea failed to get into production line …

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It was once said of Qualcomm that you only get one chance to screw the industry. The question is: Was it worth it? Chickens are coming home to roost – a $975 million anti-trust settlement with China; an $858 million fine from the Korean FTC, possibly more fines to come from the EU and the …

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Amazon Redshift Workload Management (WLM) enables you to flexibly manage priorities within workloads so that short, fast-running queries don’t get stuck in queues behind long-running queries. Today we are announcing an improved WLM experience in the Amazon Redshift console. The new features include in-line validations, simpler error messages, and more so you can easily create WLM queues and manage workloads . For more information, see Workload Management in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.

AWS customers can now directly access more than 150 free and paid desktop apps using a new integrated AWS Marketplace experience. AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps enables customers to discover and subscribe to Microsoft Windows-based applications using the familiar AWS Marketplace website, without having to first log in to the Amazon WorkSpaces console.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), known as AWS Microsoft AD, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region.

AWS CloudTrail, a service that continuously monitors and logs your AWS account activity, now allows AWS Managed Services, AWS CodeCommit, and Amazon GameLift to be viewed in the API Activity History. These services were previously available in the S3 bucket log files and are now visible using the CloudTrail console API Activity History page. This allows you to search for create, modify, and delete event activity from these services using a set of predefined filters. For read-only API activity, go to your Amazon S3 bucket or Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Please visit AWS CloudTrail product page for more information.

 

For more information on CloudTrail:

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• Supported Services
• Documentation
• Release Notes