135 years ago, a medical equipment repairman was called upon by the school at his hometown of Hammamatsu as the only guy locally who might be able to repair  an expensive US organ made by Mason and Hamlin. The repairman repaired the organ and, in doing so, became intrigued by it. He made notes on …

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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has entered into an R&D cooperation research with AIM Photonics that will give chip developers a critical new tool for designing both opto and electrical iCs AIM Photonics, a Manufacturing USA institute, is a public-private partnership that accelerates the commercialisation of new technologies …

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The UK space regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), has given its go ahead to Virgin Orbit to carry out space launches from Spaceport Cornwall. This will represent the first satellite launch from European soil. Specifically, it has issued launch and range licences to Virgin Orbit to undertake launch activities from the UK. Public safety, …

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Synchron, which has developed an implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) device – has picked up a $75 billion investment from Jeff Bezos to add to investments from Bill Gates and VC Vinod Khosla. Total funding is $145 million. Synchron’s Stentrode Endocascular Electrode Array is impanted in the brain via the jugular vein. The  implant works by …

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Micron says it will reduce its workforce by 10% in the course of next year. Sales will be about $3.8 billion in the December-February quarter. In the September-November quarter sales fell 47% to $4.09 billion. Last month Micron said ir would be cutting production by 20%. Capex will be cut from $12 billion to $7.5 …

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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now offers fully managed capabilities to stream video and audio in real-time from Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) standards compliant cameras, IoT devices and browsers to the cloud for secured storage, playback and analytical processing. Customers can now use our enhanced WebRTC SDK and cloud APIs to enable real-time streaming as well as media ingestion to the cloud.

We are excited to announce support for the Amazon Graviton2 instance family in four additional regions. Supported instance types include general purpose (M6g), compute optimized (C6g), and memory optimized (R6g and R6GD) instances. Support for C6g, M6g, R6g and R6gd is available in the Europe (Paris) region. In addition, the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), and Canada (Central) regions already supported C6g, M6g and R6g instance families, and we have now added support for R6gd in these regions. 

Amazon RDS now supports X2iedn DB instances for RDS for MySQL and on RDS for PostgreSQL. The X2iedn instances are ideal for read-intensive and high throughput write workloads. X2iedn instances support recently announced features such as Amazon RDS Optimized Writes and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys posts.

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports batch transcription in two new languages – Swedish and Vietnamese. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications.

PartiQL —a SQL-compatible query language—for Amazon DynamoDB is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).