Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Confluence Server Connector to index and search documents from Confluence Server.

We are excited to announce the launch of the updated Amazon GameLift console experience to help customers more intuitively and efficiently manage and scale their game servers. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this release, customers can more easily monitor and manage their game server instances and settings from a single interface.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, serverless, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service.

Starting today, customers can update Apple macOS operating system from within the guest environment on their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M1 Mac instances. With this capability, customers can now update their guest environments to a specific or latest macOS (non-beta) version without having to tear down their existing macOS environments, launch new instances, and reinstall libraries, tooling, and dependencies such as Apple Xcode.

Amazon EMR is excited to announce a new capability that enables users to apply AWS Lake Formation based table and column level permissions on Amazon S3 data lake for write operations (i.e., INSERT INTO, INSERT OVERWRITE) with Apache Hive jobs submitted using Amazon EMR Steps API . This feature allows data administrators to define and enforce fine-grained table and column level security for customers accessing data via Apache Hive running on Amazon EMR.

Application Auto Scaling customers can now use arithmetic operations and mathematical functions to customize the metrics used with Target Tracking policies. Target Tracking works like a thermostat – it continuously changes the capacity of the scaled resource to maintain the scaling metric at the customer-defined target level.  

Democracy watchdog Freedom House has released its annual ranking of the world’s most free and most suppressed nations. The report is considered a  barometer for global democracy and this year’s edition found that while global freedom has declined for the 17th year straight, the world may be headed towards a “possible turning point”, as the …

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You wait ages for a new Raspberry Pi camera and then two come along together… After the Pi Camera Module 3 released in January, welcome the Raspberry Pi Global Shutter Camera.

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SPARK Microsystems  of Montreal, the UWB specialist, has raised CDN$34bn (US$25bn) in a Series B financing round. An additional CDN$14 million is available subject to meeting operational milestones. Last April the company raised $7 million. Led by Idealist Capital, the round includes existing investors Cycle Capital, Economic Development Canada (EDC), Real Ventures, and ND Capital. …

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Longsys will be on display at the exhibition center of the embedded world in Germany, which is taking place from March 14 to 16, 2023. We are looking forward to meeting many of our German customers and partners. With the arrival of the Germany Embedded World Exhibition 2023, Longsys will showcase its latest products, including …

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