QuickSight Authors can now better analyze user activity; new enhancements to user activity in Topics make it easy for authors to – a. Identify questions that required user disambiguation to generate an answer, b. Filter questions based on whether they were answered or required user disambiguation and c. Filter questions based on the User who submitted the question. Authors can navigate to the User Activity section of a Topic and identify questions that required disambiguation with specific phrase highlighted, they can also filter the list of questions by choosing either “unanswered”, “has user disambiguations” or by typing in a specific User ID.

Today, Amazon Forecast is excited to announce the ability to customize the forecast frequency, enabling you to more closely align forecast intervals with your demand cycles. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time series forecasts.

SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, when creating Autopilot experiment to train a machine learning model, you can customize the splits of data used for training and validation of models. By default Autopilot splits the specified dataset into 80-20 percent splits reserved for training and validation respectively. With this release, you can customize the training and validation data split percentages or alternatively provide two datasets, one for training and another for validation. This feature is available for use in both Amazon SageMaker Studio and SageMaker Autopilot API.

We are excited to announce AWS GameKit is now available for the Unity game engine. AWS GameKit allows game developers to deploy and customize game backend features directly from a game engine. AWS GameKit launched on March 23, 2022 with support for Unreal Engine and with today’s release for Unity, game developers can integrate the following cloud-based game features into Win64, MacOS, Android, or iOS games from both the Unreal and Unity engines with just a few clicks: 

• Identity and Authentication: Create unique identities for each player and allow players to sign into the game. Verify player identities and manage player sessions.
• Achievements: Create and track game-related rewards earned by players.
• Game State Cloud Saving: Maintain a synchronized copy of player game progress in AWS to allow players to resume gameplay across sessions.
• User Gameplay Data: Maintain game-related data for each player, such as inventory, statistics, and cross-play persistence.

AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically manage controls, also known as guardrails, across their organization at scale. Customers can programmatically enable, disable, and view application status of controls available in the AWS Control Tower library. Control APIs include AWS CloudFormation support, allowing customers to manage AWS resources as infrastructure as code (IaC). AWS Control Tower provides optional preventive and detective controls that customers can use to express their policy intentions to an entire organizational unit (OU), and every AWS account within the OU. These rules remain in effect as customers create new accounts or make changes to their existing accounts.

Cree has shaken up its website, adding parametric search amongst other changes. “On-line interactive product search tools enable customers and users to perform a parametric search across all Cree led products,” according to the company. “This search capability is accessible on the ‘Products’ and ‘Applications’ pages, and offers filters for sorting by product type, voltage, …

The post Cree adds parametric search to led website appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

In 2014 the then third richest man in the world said: “We are all focused on this unbelievable opportunity to be the one big company, the one big company with all the resources to make this transition to the cloud and become the leader in that next generation of computing. It’s an opportunity we are …

The post Fable: The Vision Which Failed appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

Despite slow consumer demand, NAND contract pricing increased by approximately 3-8% in 2Q22 due to Kioxia’s contamination incident, says TrendForce. However enterprise SSD purchasing has maintained strong momentum, offsetting sluggish consumer demand.  In 2Q22, supplier bit shipments decreased by 1.3% QoQ, while ASP increased by 2.3%.  Overall NAND Flash industry revenue reached US$18.12 billion, growing …

The post NAND set for rocky Q3 appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

The University Research category for the Elektra Awards 2022 is launching, sponsored by Panasonic – with the awards in their twentieth year – and we are looking to readers to express their choice and help determine the winner. You are invited to select the university research project from the last year that you feel will …

The post Elektra 2022 University Research award launches – Cast your vote! appeared first on Electronics Weekly .

Cosworth and Ariel Motor Company, together with other key partners, have developed an ultra high-performance electric road car known as HIPERCAR (High Performance Carbon Reduction). Following the completion of the APC (Advanced Propulsion Centre) government-funded programme HIPERCAR 2, the companies will be debuting the prototype vehicle at the Cenex-LCV2022 event in UTAC Millbrook from 7th …

The post Cosworth and Ariel launch HIPERCAR appeared first on Electronics Weekly .