For hyperscale data centres, Molex has announced a pluggable module for laser sorces, with a cage and blind-mating hybrid optical-electrical connector. It is called Elsis. “Traditional pluggable modules have their optical connections at the user side of the module, creating concerns about eye safety when used with high-power laser sources, such as those planned for …

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An additional 5 AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) service controllers have graduated to generally available status. Customers can now provision and manage AWS resources using ACK controllers for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), and AWS Key Management Service (KMS).

Amazon DynamoDB transactions  enable coordinated, all-or-nothing changes to multiple items both within and across tables. The maximum number of actions in a single transaction has now increased from 25 to 100.

AWS App Runner now supports Amazon Route 53 alias records for creating a root domain name. App Runner makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure. When you create an App Runner service, by default, App Runner allocates a domain name to your service. If you have your own domain name, you can associate it to your App Runner service as a custom domain name. Now, you can use Amazon Route 53 alias record to create a root domain or subdomain for your App Runner service. For example, with alias records your App Runner service can now directly listen on example.com which was not possible with only CNAME record support which requires you to prepend a hostname such as acme.example.com.

Amazon Connect Voice ID now detects fraud risk from voice-based deception techniques such as voice manipulation during customer calls, helping you make your voice interactions more secure. For example, Voice ID can detect, in real-time, if an imposter is using a speech synthesizer to spoof a caller’s voice and bluff the agent or Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. When such fraud is detected, Voice ID flags these calls as high risk in the Amazon Connect agent application, enabling you to take additional security measures or precautions. This feature works out-of-the-box once Voice ID fraud detection is enabled for a contact, and no additional configuration is required.

We are excited to announce two new widgets (Latest announcements and Recent AWS blog posts) are available on AWS Console Home. Using these widgets, you can more easily learn about new AWS capabilities and get the latest news about AWS launches, events, and more. The AWS blog posts and launch announcements shown are related to the services used in your applications.

We are excited to announce that you can now filter your data by its dimensions while using Amazon Lookout for Metrics. Amazon Lookout for Metrics uses machine learning (ML) to automatically monitor the metrics that are most important to businesses with greater speed and accuracy than traditional methods used for anomaly detection. The service also makes it easier to diagnose the root cause of anomalies like unexpected dips in revenue, high rates of abandoned shopping carts, spikes in payment transaction failures, increases in new user sign-ups, and many more.

Many people seem to be getting their knickers in a twist about the £300 billion of US and EU Chips Acts money coming on-stream to build fab just as the chip industry moves into recession but, historically, this could be the exact right time to invest. As it takes two and a half years to …

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Jimmy Page. Dave Gilmour. Santana. Arduino Single-Board… Strum those strings you microcontroller-based musical device.

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Toray Industries has developed  a nanofiltration membrane to recover lithium from used automotive lithium-ion batteries. Toray is  starting to evaluate the recovery using actual lithium-ion batteries and will accelerate research and technological development to commercialize its approach. The challenge with the mainstream evaporation pond process for lithium production is that the number of high-output locations …

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