Amazon Connect now enables you to select and manage which days the contact center is open for the purpose of capacity planning. This new feature is part of Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling (preview) that helps you predict contact volumes and average handling time, determine optimal staffing levels, and plan agent schedules to ensure you have the right agents working at the right time.

AWS Outposts rack can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Kenya and Oman.

AWS IoT TwinMaker is launching enhancements to simplify our customers’ experience as they scale their digital twins and build data connectors. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier for developers to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. Digital twins are virtual representations of physical systems that can be regularly updated with real-world data to mimic the structure, state, and behavior of the systems they represent to drive business outcomes.

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an update to Amazon GameLift that expands support to AWS Local Zones, which increases coverage for game developers, while providing seamless, low-latency gameplay experiences for players. With this update, game developers can tap into 8 new Local Zones in Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Kansas City, Denver, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Phoenix.

What caught David Manners’ eye this week was Intel finding a new way to pay for building fabs in the USA.

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Twelve years ago two company founders who had spawned a world-leading tech company with a market cap which reached $10 billion were sent to jail. They had founded the company only 13 years before and it had become the world leader in its field. However, after an ill-judged acquisition – paying $450 million for a …

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I found this striking image looking at me in my twitter stream the other day: the Raspberry Pi-powered Terminator Skull, no less. It must be Tuesday…

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Infineon and II-VI have signed a multi-year supply agreement for SiC wafers. The  first deliveries have already taken place. Infineon’s CoolSiC ICs are used in photovoltaic converters and industrial power supplies.  SiC power semiconductors are used in the main inverters for e-vehicle drive trains, in onboard battery charging units and in charging infrastructures. II-VI and …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) is looking to extend the use of space-related technology along European roads. It has has finalised a Memorandum of Intent with ERTICO, the organisation for the European Road Transport Telematics Implementation Coordination, a public-private partnership for the development of intelligent road systems. Specifically, the ESA’s Navigation Directorate finalised the agreement …

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Flosfia, a Japanese spin-off from Kyoto University, backed by Mitsubishi, Denso and the Development Bank of Japan, is about to move into mass production of gallium oxide-based PMICs, reports the Nikkei. Flosfia claims these gallium oxide devices reduce  power loss by 70% compared with current devices, and can reduce EV power consumption by 10%. Flosfia …

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