Amazon Personalize is integrating with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler to make it easier for customers to import and prepare their data. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. The quality of data used for model training affects the quality of the recommendations, which makes data aggregation and preparation a critical step to get high-quality recommendations using Amazon Personalize. With this launch, Amazon Personalize gives you the ability to prepare your data through Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler before using it in Amazon Personalize. Customers can use Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler to import data from 40+ supported data sources and perform end-to-end data preparation (including data selection, cleansing, exploration, visualization, and processing at scale) in a single user interface using little to no code. This allows customers to rapidly prepare their users, items or interactions dataset using Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler by leveraging over 300 built-in data transformations, retrieving data insights, and quickly iterating by fixing data issues.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) events now include tags in the message body, which provide metadata about the resource that was affected by the service event. The message receiver can use these tags to do payload-based parsing with rule matching, enabling workflows such as routing, filtering, and down stream automation.

AWS Backup now offers a simple, cost-effective, and application-consistent backup and restore solution for SAP HANA databases running on Amazon EC2. With this launch, you can centrally automate backup and restore of your SAP HANA application data, in addition to the currently supported AWS services . Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you can create and manage immutable backups of SAP HANA databases across all your accounts, help protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions, and restore the data.

AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.10 as both a managed runtime and a container base image. Developers creating serverless applications in Lambda with Python 3.10 can take advantage of numerous Python language enhancements to make code more readable and maintainable. These include pattern matching for data structures, parenthesized context managers to simplify managing resources such as file handles or database connections, and better error handling. For more information on Lambda’s support for Python 3.10, see our blog post at Python 3.10 runtime now available in AWS Lambda .

Amazon EMR on EC2 now provides contextual error details that makes it easier to troubleshoot cluster provisioning failures. EMR lets you provision your EMR on EC2 cluster without worrying about managing compute infrastructure or open-source application setup. However, there can be circumstances when your cluster provisioning fails, such as an insufficient EC2 instance capacity error, bootstrap action failure or a VPC-subnet misconfiguration error. With today’s launch, you will now find additional error details in the new EMR console , AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and the AWS SDK. These additional error details are automatically enabled for all EMR versions and no further action is needed.

AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN announces public network support (preview) for LoRaWAN-based Internet of Things (IoT) systems. With this update, customers can now easily connect their IoT devices to the cloud using publicly available LoRaWAN networks provided by Everynet, a global LoRaWAN network operator offering carrier grade networks. Using AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, customers can simply register their devices to the cloud and opt for public network support in the AWS IoT console. Within minutes, they will be able to receive data from registered LoRaWAN devices in their AWS account. 

On April 4, the Australian government decided to ban TikTok from all federal-owned devices like smartphones and tablets. Australia is the last country in the Five Eyes alliance with the US, UK, New Zealand and Canada to implement such a ban. Only five countries worldwide have put a blanket ban on TikTok, located almost exclusively in …

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BRITISH electronic exports are likely to exceed the £100 million level this year – A new record, despite the present adverse trend in overseas trade generally. Exports of electronics and allied products during the first six months of the year totalled more than £48 million, with the seasonal increase in exports during autumn, the final …

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Semtech has expanded its PerSe product portfolio with the release of a sensing human proximity sensor for smartphones. The PerSe Connect SX9376 enables designers to optimize RF performance, enhance connectivity and support elevated compliance with global specific absorption rate (SAR) standards for 5G-enabled consumer devices. PerSe sensors enable automatic adjustment of system level RF emissions allows …

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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has awarded a contract to Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT) to design and manufacture three satellites for the Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission. The microsats will help provide insight into thunderstorms’ impacts on weather and climate models The company – a provider of small satellites and spacecraft systems components, and …

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