You now have the ability to shuffle your training data with Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) for improved ML model quality. Amazon ML creates better ML models when input rows are presented to the ML algorithm in a random order. With this new training parameter option, you can have Amazon ML shuffle the order of the rows of your training data. Data shuffling will be turned on by default in the Amazon ML console when you create an ML model. You can control this option through the console, or turn data shuffling on through the API and SDK.

Amazon API Gateway now supports importing Swagger API definitions. Previously, you would use the Swagger importer tool to import Swagger definitions into API Gateway. Now, you can import your Swagger API definitions into API Gateway through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDK. This allows you to easily create and deploy new APIs as well as update existing APIs in Amazon API Gateway.

We are excited to announce the launch of three new health checking features for Amazon Route 53:

Metric Based Health Checks let you perform DNS failover based on any metric that is available within Amazon CloudWatch, including AWS-provided metrics and custom metrics from your own application. When you create a metric based health check within Amazon Route 53, the health check becomes unhealthy whenever its associated Amazon CloudWatch metric enters an alarm state.

Transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for the week of April 4, 2016.

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a design kit for its PSoC programmable system-on-chip devices incorporating Controller Area Network (CAN) and Local Interconnect Network (LIN) slave communications. The CY8CKIT-026 CAN and LIN Shield Kit features two CAN transceivers for high-accuracy, high-speed transmissions, two LIN transceivers and Arduino compatible headers. Additionally, the kit includes five example projects that …

CAN bus design kit has Arduino headers

TE Connectivity says that its Strada Whisper direct plug orthogonal (DPO) connectors are designed to eliminate mid-plane connectivity to improve airflow in basestations and other types of communications equipment. The backplane connector supports 25Gbit/s data rates and is scalability up to 56Gbit/s (PAM4 and NRZ). The DPO connectors are designed to offer alignment and installation …

Backplane connector carries 56Gbit/s in basestations

Huawei grew revenue 37% to $62 billion for a profit of $5.7 billion. It expects revenues of $75 billion this year. Sales of consumer goods, including 108 million smartphones, rose 73% to $19.9 billion. Sales of networking equipment rose 21% to $35.8 billion propelled by investment in 4G. Huawei spent $9 billion on R&D. In …

Huawei enjoys bumper 2015

Q1 sales (to the end of February) at BlackBerry fell by almost $200m to $464 million. The company made a loss of $238 million in the quarter compared to a profit of $28 million for the same quarter last year. The company blamed delays caused by negotiations with the network operators about its Priv handset. …

BlackBerry still struggling

A wireless antenna technology developed at the Universities of Bristol and Lund, could give 5G mobile basestations a 12-fold increase in spectrum efficiency compared with current 4G cellular technology. Multiple antenna technology, referred to as MIMO, is already used in many Wi-Fi routers and 4G cellular phone systems. Normally this involves up to four antennas …

Bristol University researchers claims record spectrum efficiency for 5G

Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. For those of us in the cable assembly business, we are faced with low-cost imports being sold in the UK market place enticing unsuspecting consumers to buy …

Only Connect: The isse of sub-standard USB-C cables