Amazon Redshift ML enables you to create, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models using familiar SQL commands. With Amazon Redshift ML, you can now leverage Amazon Forecast, a ML-based time-series forecasting service, without having to learn any new tools or having to create pipelines to move your data.

Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for routing profile and queue resources, in addition to other resources used to configure a contact center like Connect instances, flows, S3 buckets and lambdas. You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to programmatically deploy Amazon Connect routing profiles and queues in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, reducing the risk of human error from manual configuration. CloudFormation allows you to track changes over time, apply updates in a controlled and automated manner, and includes version controls so you can easy roll back changes if needed.

AWS Supply Chain is now generally available in Australia (Sydney) and Europe (Ireland) based on increased customer demand in these regions. With this release AWS Supply Chain is now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Australia (Sydney) and Europe (Ireland).

Starting today, you can enable Amazon Route 53 Resolver on AWS Outpost rack, allowing you to resolve Domain Name Server (DNS) queries locally and enhance the availability and performance of applications running on Outposts rack.

A famous Nobel Prize winning physicist once blurted out over lunch: “But where is everyone?” Since his three lunch companions were all eminent physicists they immediately realised that he was talking about extra-terrestrial life. The question they then debated was: If the universe is so big, then the chances of intelligent life in it must …

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The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…

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The OECD Employment Outlook 2023 says that unions have four major concerns about AI: 1. The trustworthy use of  the technology including risks relating to privacy, transparency, security and accountability; 2. The skill demands associated with high re- and up-skilling costs for businesses and workers; 3. The physical and mental health risks e.g. through AI-based …

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The UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) is celebrating the record success of its 2022/23 Scholarship Scheme for entering the electronics industry. It is the most successful year since the Scheme was established in 2010, the organisation reports. This year, there were 266 applications from undergraduates studying at one of the UKESF’s 27 partner universities. The …

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Semiconductor revenues are expected to fall 7% from 2022’s $573 billion to $534 billion in 2023, says Yole Developpement. Overall, US chip companies currently hold a 53% market share, but that changes depending on how you dice and slice market segments. “If we combine all types of semiconductor company business models, i.e., adding the open …

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Saildrone, the 11 year-old San Francisco startup which has raised $190 million to make uncrewed service vessels (USVs), is using Nvidia’s Jetson processor modules for on-board data analysis. These sailing vessels are marine data collection machines which require energy-efficient computing at the edge to handle intensive data processing while running mostly on solar and wind …

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