Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Europe (Paris) Region.

Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time that it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization, from a single visual interface. You can import data from multiple data sources such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, and 26 Federated Query data sources supported by Amazon Athena. Starting today, customers importing data from Athena data sources can configure S3 query output location and data retention period to control where and how long Athena stores the intermediary data.

We are excited to launch the AWS Smart City Competency to provide best-in-class partner recommendations to our customers and broader market. With cities at the front line of economic, social, and global challenges such as energy and water use, traffic management, sanitation, and sustainability, the quest to build cities that “work” is increasingly reliant on technology solutions. Many AWS Partners leverage the power of AWS Cloud to innovate and deploy meaningful smart city solutions for these challenges, including urban data platforms to help cities gain insights for data-driven decision making; innovative solutions to improve the efficiency and delivery of urban infrastructure such as water, waste, transport, energy, and lighting; and most importantly, solutions to deliver better government services to all urban citizens.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed file storage built on Windows Server, now provides additional performance metrics for improved visibility into file system activity and an enhanced monitoring dashboard with performance insights and recommendations. You can use the new metrics and dashboard to right-size your file systems and optimize performance and costs.

What caught the eye of David Manners this week, for example, was a dire warning of what’s coming for next year’s chip market, delivered by Malcom Penn…

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There was once a university Professor who noticed there was something wrong with a chip. First the trade press noticed the Prof’s findings, then the mainstream newspapers and finally the TV channels. The maker of the chip said the problem would be encountered by only a tiny proportion of its customers all of whom could …

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As Dynamic Islands go, it may not be the most dynamic, but there are other things to see on the latest Apple iPhone flagship when the iFixit team teardown the iPhone 14 Pro.

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Digi-Key Electronics has opened its Back2School Prize Draw sweepstake, giving college students a chance to win prizes of real-world engineering tools and resources. The annual prize draw is open to any student with a university or college email address, and entries may be made in the students’ local language. There will be 11 prize giveaways …

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onsemi has expanded its Czech SiC fab to boost wafer output 16x over the next two years. Starting in 2019, onsemi added SiC polished wafer and SiC epitaxy (EPI) wafer production to its existing silicon polished and epitaxy wafer and die manufacturing in Roznov. Having outgrown the original site, coonstruction of a new building began …

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L4985A/B and L4986A/B power-factor correction (PFC) boost converters from ST integrate 800V startup circuitry and additional valuable proprietary features. The built-in high-voltage startup capability saves auxiliary circuitry, allowing a “no aux” design that reduces bill-of-materials costs and ensures reliable starting. These circuits also include internal logic to safely discharge input-filter X capacitors when the AC …

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