We are pleased to announce that as of today, customers will see additional details in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection’s console, alerting emails, and SNS topics posted to Slack and Chime. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is a cost management service that leverages advanced machine learning to identify anomalous spend and root causes, so customers can quickly take action to avoid runaway spend and bill shocks. With this launch, customer can spend less effort trying to understand what account and monitor is tied to a cost anomaly, which in turn helps them take necessary actions more quickly.

Starting today, AWS IoT TwinMaker will support asset synchronization with AWS IoT SiteWise, making it easier for AWS IoT SiteWise customers to bring their assets and asset models into AWS IoT TwinMaker.

EC2 Auto Scaling customers can now use Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math to customize the metrics they use with Target Tracking policy without actually having to publish and pay for customized metrics. Customers can use both arithmetic operators (such as +, -, /, and *) and mathematical functions (such as Sum and Average) to easily create custom metrics based on existing CloudWatch metrics. Target Tracking, like other EC2 Auto Scaling policies, helps customers maintain high availability while reducing costs by auto scaling their environments to meet changing demand. Specifically, Target Tracking works like a thermostat: it constantly changes the capacity of an Auto Scaling group to maintain the specified metric at a customer-defined target level. Today’s release makes it easier and cheaper to configure Target Tracking with custom metrics.

U.S. companies dominate the arms manufacturing industry, though two Chinese companies –  Norinco and AVIC – made  it into the top eight last year with combined arms sales of over $40 billion last year. According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), arms sales of the world’s largest 100 arms-producing companies grew by 1.9% to …

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The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye… David Manners, components editor Shortages of engineers prompted the IET to suggest that some engineering content should be injected unto the …

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Next year is the 200th anniversary of the death of a Scotsman who invented the line, area and bar chart, the circle chart and the pie chart, who worked for James Watt, took part in the storming of the Bastille, spied on the French for the British government during the French Revolution, organised a counterfeiting operation …

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NMITE, the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering in Hereford, has raised over £36,000 in a  a week to offer three underprivileged kids from the area a spot at NMITE to study engineering. The fund raising has been achieved as part of The Big Give, a national matched funding campaign run by The Reed …

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Digi-key Electronics has launched its 14th annual DigiWish Giveaway, giving engineers a chance to win some electronics via the use of social media. To enter, participants must select one in-stock Digi-Key product, valued up to $100, and comment or post their wish on a social platform (Facebook, Instagram or Twitter) using the hashtag #DigiWish. One …

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CEA, the French National Centre For Scientific Research (CNRS) and CEO Maud Vinet have founded a startup called Siquance which aims to develop and commercialise a quantum computer built on microelectronics technology. Siquance  is developing a quantum computer that is based on standard silicon ICs. To enable this, a disruptive technology solution was essential to …

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SiTime has brought out  a new precision timing platform that claims to simplify timing architecture in wireless infrastructure. The company says that ita Elite RF Super-TCXO enables higher bandwidth and lower latency for 5G and satellite communications deployment. The platform expands SiTime’s SAM by $150M with target applications such as infrastructure radios in small cells, remote …

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