AWS Lambda launches auto scaling improvements for Amazon MSK and self-managed Apache Kafka as event sources. With this launch, customers will now experience faster scaling and more consistent throughput when processing Kafka messages with Lambda functions.

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Amazon Aurora Global Database for PostgreSQL now lets you forward write requests from a secondary to a primary Region, simplifying writing from multiple Regions and making it easier to develop globally distributed applications. With this launch, write forwarding is now available on both Aurora Global Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that provides web and mobile developers with desktop browsers and real mobile devices so that they can improve the quality of their apps. With today’s launch, we are rolling out a new backend for our Android mobile device testing that provides reduced test start times, better Remote Access performance, simpler dependency management, and support for the latest software like Appium 2. With just a few changes to your test configuration, you can take advantage of these improvements to get your test results faster and with less effort configuring your environment.

Our technology editor, for example, highlights Japanese researchers making great use of a bio fuel cell by turning one into a pollution detector for lakes and rivers…

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98 years ago a patent application was filed by an MIT graduate from Kansas City, Missouri, which stated:  “Except when manifest as a force in electrical disturbances, the existing ether …

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There’s the SkyWater open-source 130 nm process, establishing IP empires, automotive 5G-satellite connectivity, the telecom industry in a 5G twist, and the results of the RealVNC Raspberry Pi compo are revealed…

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Following its acquisition of Inmarsat, Viasat has announced it is making approximately 800 people from its workforce redundant, representing about 10%, spread across the business in terms of geographies and …

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The emerging market for AI PCs does not yet have a clear definition, says TrendForce. One the software side, Microsoft has launched its AI assistant, Copilot, which is powered by …

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Ayar Labs has integrated an Intel Agilex FPGA into an optical I/O  chiplet package delivering, it claims, 5x the bandwidth at 5x lower power and 20x lower latency than current …

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