AWS announces the general availability of the Confirmation slot type for Amazon Lex that enables developers to effectively capture “Yes” and “No” responses from users. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application, using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated natural language conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems.

Introducing AWS DeepRacer Student educator playbooks – the perfect tool for educators to seamlessly integrate foundational machine learning (ML) curriculum and labs into their classrooms for students 16 years and older. With educator playbooks, educators can easily upskill students in the basics of ML through the excitement of racing autonomous vehicles.

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7a instances. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Hpc7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances. Hpc7a instances feature 2x higher core density (up to 192 cores), 2.1x higher memory bandwidth throughput, 2x memory (768 GB), and 3x higher network bandwidth compared to Hpc6a instances. 

We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift now supports the latest generation of compute-optimized AWS Graviton instances. Amazon GameLift is a fully-managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. Graviton-based instances are powered by the latest AWS Graviton3 processors and deliver up to 25% higher performance over Graviton2 processors. With this release, Amazon GameLift now supports 68 instance families across 23 regions.

AWS Marketplace sellers can now utilize a new, simplified onboarding process to create Vendor Insights security profiles, reducing the time it takes to make their product profiles visible to prospective buyers. AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights allows customers to complete third-party software risk assessments in days instead of months. Sellers with AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights profiles can showcase their security posture while reducing the operational burden of responding to buyer requests for security and risk information.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, an AWS service that provides the only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud, now provides additional Amazon CloudWatch performance metrics for improved visibility into file system activity and enhanced monitoring dashboards with performance insights and recommendations . You can use the new metrics and dashboards to more easily monitor and right-size your file systems to optimize performance and costs.

Just to flag this one: Google is offering some free AI training for everyone in the UK. Maybe perfect timing if you want to investigate machine learning or artificial intelligence …

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WeWork had to use the “going concern” warning alongside its earnings report last week, meaning that it could face bankruptcy unless it manages to improve liquidity and profitability over the …

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China has stymied the Intel-Tower deal by refusing regulatory approval and Intel will now pay a termination fee of $353 million to Tower. “Our foundry efforts are critical to unlocking …

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Kyocera AVX has announced a range of high-capacity supercapcitor banks with low leakage. “SCM Series supercapacitor modules are rated for operating temperatures from -40°C to +65°C and lifetimes that extend …

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