Starting today, Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) T4g instances are available in Africa (Cape Town) region. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. Amazon EC2 T4g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enable the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. T4g instances offer a balance of compute, memory, and network resources for a broad spectrum of general purpose workloads, such as large scale micro-services, caching servers, search engine indexing, e-commerce platforms, and virtual desktops.

The most popular TED Talk of all time is Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 talk, “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”, with almost 75 million views. Second is “Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are” by social psychologist Amy Cuddy with around 68 million views. Cuddy discusses how power posing can boost feelings of confidence. The next …

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It’s great when Gadget Masters can turn their mastery of electronics to projects supporting the environment, so this is one to note: element14 Community is launching its ‘Summer of Green Technology’.

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Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top ten foundries in Q4

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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has commissioned a Space Sector Skills Survey for 2023. It is intended to be the primary source of evidence for the UK Government’s understanding of skills gaps and workforce challenges in the space sector. The survey opened yesterday – at survey.spaceskills.org – and runs until 2nd June 2023. It is …

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Weeebit Nano, the ReRAM specialist, has raised about $15 million via an upsized and scaled-back share purchase plan (SPP) to existing shareholders. The SPP enabled eligible shareholders to apply for up to $30,000 worth of new fully paid ordinary shares in Weebit Nano (New Shares) at $5.00 per New Share. It followed a $45 million …

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Down funding rounds for startups – where the valuation on a funding round is lower than for the previous round – hit near five-year highs at the end of last year, says Prequin.m In Q1, 7.5% of all US VC funding rounds were down rounds, says PitchBook. Because of the negative connotations of a down …

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PreAct Technologies of Portland, Oregon – the  software-definable LiDAR specialist – has completed a $20 million in the series B round Investors included I Squared Capital, State Farm Ventures, Luminate, and Traylor Capital among others,. Last January, PreAct acquired  computer vision and gesture recognition company, Gestoos, which combines the company’s  AI algorithm development platform with …

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The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The event will be held in Munich (14 and 15 November, followed by a SystemC Evolution day on 16 November). This year, the event will include a research track and authors from universities and research institutes are invited to …

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STMicroelectronics is has chosen an isolated buck converter topology for a 10W dc-dc converter that provides a regulated local primary power rail, plus a moderately regulated isolated secondary power rail. The secondary output, it said, is suitable for powering isolated IGBT, SiC or GaN gate drivers. The IC is called L6983i, and it can operated …

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