Amazon QuickSight now includes Radar chart as a new chart type. Radar charts (also known as spider charts, polar charts, or web charts) are a way to visualize multivariate data. They are used to plot one or more groups of values over multiple common variables. They do this by providing an axis for each variable, which are arranged radially around a central point and spaced equally. The center of the chart represents the min value and the edge represent the max value on the axis. The data from a single observation are plotted along each axis and connected to form a polygon. Multiple observations can be placed in a single chart by displaying multiple polygons. To learn more, click here .

AWS Snow Family now supports Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) for Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge devices. You can use AWS Snow Family devices to run storage, compute, and data-processing operations in locations with denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited connectivity. IMDSv2 is an enhancement to instance metadata access that requires session-oriented requests to add defense-in-depth against unauthorized metadata access. IMDSv2 requires a PUT request to initiate a session to the instance metadata service and retrieve a token.

Oh dear what a hoo-ha, Ed confides to his diary,  some busybodies have been harping on about a trifling payment I received some years ago from my perfectly legally-established family offshore trust in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Naturally, when scurrilous rumours first arose suggesting I had not paid tax on these payments I issued, …

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The winners of element14’s Summer of Sensors Design Challenge have been announced. Participants showed what sensors can do while utilising specific sensory kits provided by the challenges’ sponsors. Of the participants, four were selected as winners by the element14 Community team of judges: TAG You’re It: Best use of NFC smart asset tracking sponsored by …

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There are reports that the US has agreed with the governments of the Netherlands and Japan that they will impose restrictions on the export of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China. Officials at all three nations are keeping schtumm on the terms of the deal. It is thought that ASML may refuse to sell some of …

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O-RAN will account for 15-20% of Global RAN by 2027, says Dell’Oro, after stronger than expected growth in North America. While O-RAN is not confined to a specific technology, RF output power, spectrum band, or deployment configuration, O-RAN macros are expected to drive the lion’s share of the O-RAN capex, accounting for around 90% of …

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2004 was a good year for the industry but there were growing concerns that process technology was approaching its limit. At the 2004 Future Horizons Forum in Prague, warnings came from a number of  US technologists who believed the industry’s process technology was running out of steam. “Scaling is already dead, and no one has …

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German solar inverter maker Steca has gone for silicon carbide in the 4.6kW model of its latest grid-connected inverter for home use, the StecaGrid 4611_2, part of its coolcept fleX family. It has adopted a two-level converter, with bi-directional boost converters and an H4-topology for the ac output, which uses 16x 1.2kV 75mΩ SiC mosfets …

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Fluke has introduced a series of product calibrators, intended to be used by people with “minimal training”, it said. “With demand for calibration growing every year, Fluke 5560A [right] defines a new class of multi-product calibrator by catering for new and inexperienced workers joining the calibration business without much training,” according to the company. “Key features …

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Intel had a Q4 loss of  $700 million on revenues down 32% y-o-y at $14 billion. “Clearly the financials aren’t what we hoped for, but we’re also pleased with the execution process we made,” said CEO Pat Gelsinger (pictured) “the macro is difficult. It was difficult in Q4. We expect it to remain difficult as …

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