AWS Health now publishes service health events to Amazon EventBridge. Previously, you could receive only account-specific events on this channel. Now, you can also receive events about the overall health of AWS services. This enables you to get a full picture of service issues that might affect the performance of your applications. 

Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region on engine versions 1.2.1.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, and T3 instance types in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region.

Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling, a feature of Amazon Connect, helps you to predict, allocate, and verify that the right number of agents are scheduled at the right time to meet your operational goals with minimal overstaffing. Machine learning (ML)–powered capabilities allow you to anticipate contact volume and arrival rates, convert forecasts into projected staffing needs, and assign daily shifts to the right number of agents. With forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling, you can help optimize internal operations, meet service goals, and improve agent and customer satisfaction.

Dam keepers in the UK and Japan should be the world’s most worried dam keepers, says the U.N. Institute for Water, Environment and Health,. In both countries, average dam age has surpassed 100 years, double of what the report calls the 50 years old “alert” age for large dams, defined as those with a height of …

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In the USSR women are to be found in most electronic laboratories, in this country the idea has not yet met with much enthusiasm. So, 63 years ago, stsrted a Story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of September 14, 1960 The story continues: There are certainly no rules against the employment of women scientists – indeed …

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OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, is reported to have raised $300 million at a valuation of $27-29 billion. VCs said to gave invested include: Tiger Global, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and K2 Global which has only ine partner – Ozi Amanat. MS already has a €10 billion investment in the company. …

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The EC has approved a €7.4 billion subsidy for ST and GloFo’s  jv FD-SOI fab at Crolles. When the jv was announced in July 2022, President Macron’s office said that the investment would be in excess of 5.7 billion without specifying the currency. ‘The aid will take the form of direct grants to ST and …

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SoftBank has filed for a public offering of Arm shares on the Nasdaq. Softbank is said to be looking to raise $8-10 billion but has not disclosed how many Arm shares it will be selling or the valuation it is looking for. However it has issued a statement that it “intends that Arm will continue …

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Atomera, the materials and technology licensing company, has licensed ST  to install Atomera’s Mears Silicon Technology (MST) into its facilities and authorises ST to manufacture and distribute MST-enabled products to its customers. MST is a quantum-engineered material that enhances transistors to deliver significantly better performance in semiconductor devices, while shrinking die sizes and reducing cost …

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Today, we are excited to announce AWS SimSpace Weaver Snapshots, a new feature that allows SimSpace Weaver developers to save the state of their simulations at a specific point in time.