Among got the 300 job vacancies being advertised at Imec is one for a ‘Talent Recruiter’. The ad is headed: Talent recruiter (temporary assignment) Human Resources – Leuven | Just now “Do you have a nose for talent?” runs the job spec, “Can you help us track the smart creatives, deep thinkers, technical wizards, and …

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In 1968 an inventor applied for a patent on the microprocessor before Intel and TI filed their applications. In 1990  the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office granted the patent. In 1991 the inventor licensed the patent to Philips. The inventor is said to have received $150 million in revenues for the patent. In June 2021 …

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The UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator has launched a new competition, involving blood, sweat, tears, saliva: Generation-after-next Wearable Technologies. As the name suggests, the aim is to encourage and find “innovative wearable technologies that focus on biocompatible materials that access information present within an individual’s bodily fluids”. Body fluids Up to £750k of funding will …

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AWS has set up a  Centre for Quantum Networking (CQN), focused on how to build a “scalable, commercial quantum network.” “To unlock the full potential of quantum devices, they need to be connected together into a quantum network, similar to the way today’s devices are connected via the internet,” says AWS, “despite not receiving the …

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IQE, the compound semiconductor wafer supplier, has signed a multi-year agreement with its long-term partner, photonics specialist Lumentum, for the supply of epiwafers supporting 3D Sensing, LiDAR for automotive and optical networking applications. Effective immediately, the multi-year agreement is focused on high volume production of epiwafers which will be used across Lumentum’s portfolio of  laser products, …

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As Republicans and Democrats argue how to reconcile the two versions of the Chips Act which were separately passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, a cut-off moment aporoaches after which the bill could be lost. Congress breaks for its summer recess in August and, when it comes back, the US will be into …

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AWS CodeBuild is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. With CodeBuild, you don’t need to provision, manage, and scale your own build servers. CodeBuild scales continuously and processes multiple builds concurrently, so your builds are not left waiting in a queue. You can get started quickly by using prepackaged build environments, or you can create custom build environments that use your own build tools. Using CodeBuild, you are charged by the minute for the compute resources you use.

Amazon Relation Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Europe (London) AWS Regions.

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) launches a new Console Query Editor providing an improved interface for authoring queries, debugging transactions, and exploring results. The new editor supports tabs for simple management of multiple queries, PartiQL syntax highlighting, query performance statistics, multi-statement transactions, and a timer to track the transaction duration limit. You can search and filter your results across the table view, Ion document view, or CSV view for easy exploration of your results in the format you prefer. Query results can also be downloaded in Ion and CSV formats.

The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) now supports M5d and R5d instances. This deployment option gives you up to 2x lower transaction commit latency, automated fail overs typically under 35 seconds, and readable standby instances.