Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports streaming transcription in 3 more AWS regions -Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Africa (Cape Town). Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. 

AWS ParallelCluster 3.6 is now generally available. Key new features include support for automatic health checks for GPU instances and support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL8). Other important features in this release include:

1. Ability to customize Slurm settings not managed by ParallelCluster
2. A programmatic interface to manage ParallelCluster using AWS CloudFormation
3. Support for up to 50 queues and a total of 50 compute resources per cluster
4. Tag-based cost monitoring in ParallelCluster UI
5. Support for custom resource tags for queues, head node, and ParallelCluster-managed storage
6. Extended Amazon CloudWatch metrics for disk usage, idle instances, and errors
7. Improved head node resiliency with configurable log rotation

AWS Chatbot now supports access to Amazon CloudWatch dashboards and Logs Insights from AWS Chatbot for Microsoft Teams and AWS Chatbot for Slack. AWS customers can now find the status of their application health by accessing CloudWatch dashboards and log telemetry from their chat channel. When they receive Amazon CloudWatch alarm notifications for an incident in their chat channel, they can analyze the diagnostic data from the dashboards and remediate directly from their chat channel without switching context.

Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports a new, enhanced binary log (binlog). The enhanced binlog reduces the compute performance overhead caused by enabling binlog, which, in certain cases, can reach up to 50%, down to 13%. The enhanced binlog also improves database recovery time by up to 99% after restarts and failovers, as compared to when native MySQL binlog is enabled.

Today, AWS Backup is announcing support for restoring resources with tags copied from protected resources. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. This launch allows you to seamlessly extend using tag-based policies for access, cost allocation, compliance, and automation workflows for your restored resources.

Some of these government-assisted fabs being put up are going to be immensely profitable with direct subsidies of 60% and more, plus tax breaks, plus local government grants, plus sundry handouts of different hues, Ed confides to his diary, and I see that most of them are being set up as an independent legal entities …

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Quantum Ventura, the San Jose  AI/ML research house, will use BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic processor  to develop cyber threat-detection tools. Quantum Ventura is creating cybersecurity applications for the U.S. Department of Energy under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The program is focused on “Cyber threat-detection using neuromorphic computing,” which aims to develop an advanced …

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Orbex, the UK-based private, low-cost orbital launch services specialist, has announced construction has begun at Sutherland Spaceport, making it the first vertical launch spaceport to be built on the UK mainland. The site, which was formerly known as Space Hub Sutherland, will be the ‘home’ spaceport of Forres-based rocket and launch services company, Orbex. It …

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Since the RoHS directive went into effect on July 1, 2006, most thick film chip resistors have complied with the directive through exemption 7(c)-I, which allows for “…lead in a glass or ceramic…or in a glass or ceramic matrix compound.”  While this exemption has been renewed in subsequent revisions to the RoHS directive, it is not clear …

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SigmaSense of Austin Texas has licensed sensing technology to NXP and the two companies are to collaborate on developing multi-dimensional sensing touch interfaces. “The next generation of smart devices and applications are demanding data for enhanced functionality that requires an entirely new software-programmable approach to sensing,” says Lars Reger, CTO, NXP, “SigmaSense created a breakthrough …

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