Today, AWS announced the general availability of face occlusion detection to improve face verification accuracy. The new FaceOccluded attribute in Amazon Rekognition DetectFaces and IndexFaces APIs detects if the face in an image is partially captured or not fully visible due to overlapping objects, clothing, and body parts.

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Middle East (UAE).

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 adding support for Rooted Android devices in our private device fleets. With Rooted Android devices, customers will be able to perform advanced testing with expanded device access, including more metrics, battery benchmarking, and increased access to the device file system.

Today, we are announcing an update for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canaries to use the Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 4.0. With this update, runtime version of AWS Lambda, executing the canaries, is updated to NodeJS 16.x.

60 years ago this year, a computer programme was written as part of a PhD thesis  which pioneered CAD and was the first programme to use a complete GUI. It introduced dynamic graphics, visual simulation, constraint resolution, pin tracking, and a virtually infinite coordinate system.  It  won both the Turing Award and the Kyoto Prize. …

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For example, David Manners’ fingerpost this week is Softbank filing for an Arm IPO in New York, on the NASDAQ…

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New vaccinations around the world have slowed to a trickle, according to Our World in Data. While in mid-2021, an average of as many as 38 million doses were given out each day, this had decreased to between 500,000 to one million daily doses most recently. Interestingly, booster shots have generally not overtaken initial protocol …

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Claimed to be the smallest ever, a bright sub-wavelength silicon LED has been fabricated for use in a high-resolution lens-less holographic microscope, according to researchers at SMART in Singapore, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. This form of microscope does not have conventional optics (see diagrams), but uses maths to reconstruct an image of …

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Distributor Live Electronics is stocking a range of push-in wiring switches and indicator lamps from Japanese manufacturer IDEC. “By comparison with traditional screw-in connectors, the devices reduce wiring times, making them ideal for new and refurbished control panels and machine builds,” according to Live. “The push-in products ensure reliable connections that withstand shock and vibration, …

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Neutrik is aiming at reliable mains connections with a series of locking three-conductor single-phase power connectors, with what the company calls CBC (circuit-breaking capability) for IEC 60320. PowerCon XX, as they are known, cover cables with outer diameters between 6mm and 16mm, and wire gauges of 12 to 16AWG (2.5 to 1.5mm2): NAC3FXXA-W-S (blue) or …

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