Starting today, customers can now disable Always Free Tier offers when creating a global pricing rule in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC). Pricing rules with free tier disabled allow customers to default to the first paid tier for all AWS services. For example, AWS partners can use a global pricing rule with free tier disabled to match the negotiated terms between themselves and their end customers. This feature makes it easier to align the Billing Conductor’s pro forma billing reports with internal chargeback logic.

SV1, the on-demand state vector simulator on Amazon Braket, now supports the computation of gradients using the adjoint differentiation method, enabling customers to reduce runtime and save costs for their quantum machine learning and optimization workloads. With this launch, customers simulating variational quantum algorithms with a large number of parameters, such as the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA), can now seamlessly incorporate adjoint gradient computation either directly from the Braket Python SDK  or API, or through PennyLane , an open-source software framework built for quantum differentiable programming.

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports AWS CloudFormation. You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to create, update, and delete your Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces, as well as manage or update workspace SAML authentication settings.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect now supports AWS Fargate workloads running on AWS Graviton Processors. Service Connect simplifies service discovery, connectivity and traffic observability for Amazon ECS and helps you build applications faster by letting you focus on the application code instead of your networking infrastructure.

According to the  Statista Global Consumer Survey Christmas means pure stress for around 16%  of the people surveyed in the United States. This rises to 18% of respondents in the UK. This is seemingly in part because there are too many expectations associated with Christmas; a quarter of respondents from Germany and the United States …

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A bit of fun for a Friday, trying to make official the rather random journalistic units of measurement we all come across. The thought was provoked by a story about the Flex Power Modules’ 80A BMR510 that is sugar-cube-sized…

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In 2000, as now, the chip industry was on the brink of a huge slump, but, in the autumn of 2000, the analysts were still predicting good times ahead for the chip industry. In its mid-year forecast, IC Insights of Arizona saw the market topping $200bn for the first time in 2000, a $250bn market …

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Mouser  and Vicor have come up with a range of resources for 48 V products and power designs. The site offers a collection of in-depth articles, videos, and infographics, offering designers and manufacturers a comprehensive resource to develop new power designs with higher voltage 48 V distribution. Unlike many common 12 V systems, 48 V systems …

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The long-anticipated first satellite launch from European soil – involving a Virgin Orbit launch from Spaceport Cornwall – has been put back once again, this time into 2023. While not all licensing for the launch has been completed, it also seems that technical issues have arisen, delaying the process. The Virgin Orbit LauncherOne rocket is …

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Vietnamese EV maker VinFast, which made its first delivery of 999 cars to the US in November, has filed to IPO on the Nasdaq which will make it the only publicly quoted Vietnamese company on a US exchange. VinFast officially filed for an initial public offering in New York in a move that, if successful, …

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