Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”), virtual agents, and IVR systems. Today, Amazon Lex introduces the composite slot type. A slot is used to capture user input and provide the bot the necessary information to fulfill a task. In some cases, the information contains multiple values, each requiring its own slot. For example, a customer making a payment may confirm credit card details to the bot (“Card ending in 5678 with an expiration of September 2025 and billing zip 94105”). Previously, bot builders had to elicit each slot individually (e.g., “Please provide last 4 of the card number”, “Now, please provide the expiration date on the card”). With the composite slot type, Amazon Lex can capture the full user response at once and associate each piece of information with the appropriate slot.

So many people are feeling loss this morning. We’ve lost a wonderful example of how holding the grandest of titles needn’t rule out living in a down-to-earth, wise, human way.  To be carrying out public duties two days before her death says everything about her quality. A lot of us will be sadder for quite …

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Everyone knows that  one of the greatest problems is inequality of wealth, with the super-rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Few politicians know how to solve the problem,  Bill Davidow, author of the bible of tech salesmanship ‘’Marketing High Technology’ wrote an article for The Atlantic in 2014 showing how this coukd best …

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Princeps, the specialist distributor of obsolete and difficult-to-source electronic, electrical and e-mech components, has signed an distribution agreement with Hammond Manufacturing. Princeps is supplying Hammond’s complete portfolio of electrical enclosures, which can be modified and customised in-house to suit specific customer requirements. Hammond manufactures a huge range of electrical enclosures in metallic and non-metallic materials …

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NEC and Mavenir have deployed massive MIMO (mMIMO) on Orange’s 5G standalone (SA) experimental network. Mavenir’s cloud-native Open virtualized Radio Access Network (Open vRAN) software has been deployed on Orange’s cloud infrastructure with NEC’s 32T32R mMIMO active antenna unit (AAU) to deliver high capacity and enhanced coverage. Interoperability between radios and virtualized Distributed Units (vDUs) …

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IC lead times fell by one day in August to 26.8 weeks, says Susquehanna Financial Group. “We believe over-ordering trends and inventory builds have yet to work through the system, says Susquehanna analyst Chris Rolland, The lead-times for PMICs, MCUs and opto are still extended, he says. Rolland adds that it would be ‘healthy’ for …

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Q2 revenue of the top ten fabless companies was up 32% y-o-y at $39.56 billion, reports TrendForce. AMD had the highest growth at 70% to take third place. Qualcomm stayed at No.1 after growing 45% to achieve revenue of $9.38 billion. . Nvidia had growth of 21% for revenue of €7.08 billion.

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Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Tokyo). C6id, M6id and R6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors, with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage, and up to 15% better price performance than their 5th generation counterpart instances.

Amazon SageMaker provides a suite of built-in algorithms, pre-trained models, and pre-built solution templates to help data scientists and machine learning practitioners get started on training and deploying machine learning models quickly. These algorithms and models can be used for both supervised and unsupervised learning. They can process various types of input data including tabular, image, and text.

QuickSight Q is now available in four new regions (in addition to six existing regions) – Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) and Canada (Central). AWS customers can signup for QuickSight in these four new regions in addition to existing regions, details can also be found at AWS QuickSight Q regions . Get started with a free trial of Amazon QuickSight Q.