Amazon QuickSight now provides an option for both author and readers the flexibility to use drag controller on table and pivot table. Authors and Readers can simply alter column width by dragging from cell, row header or column header from both parent and leaf level in case of pivot table.

Starting today, AWS Transfer Family customers can ignore the SETSTAT command and customize how they want to process TLS session resumption. These new features enable customers to support a broader set of clients without making any client-side changes.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service, now helps you monitor your table-level storage costs through Amazon CloudWatch.

We are excited to announce that the Amazon EC2 VT1 instances now support the AMD-Xilinx Video SDK 2.0, bringing support for Gstreamer, 10-bit HDR video, and dynamic encoder parameters. In addition to new features, this new version offers improved visual quality for 4k video, support for a newer version of FFmpeg (4.4), expanded OS/kernel support, and bug fixes.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gn instances are available in the Europe (Paris, Milan), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions.

You can now use Identity and Access Management (IAM) condition keys to specify which resource types are permitted in the retention rules created for Recycle Bin . With Recycle Bin, you can retain deleted EBS snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs for a period of time so that you can recover them in the event of an accidental deletion. You can enable Recycle Bin for all or a subset of the Snapshots or AMIs in your account by creating one or more retention rule. Each rule also specifies a retention time period. A deleted EBS snapshot or de-registered AMI can be recovered from the Recycle Bin before the expiration of the retention period.

Starting today, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is available in 12 additional Regions: US West (N. California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (Milan), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), South America (São Paulo).

We are excited to announce that you can now add filters to alerts and also edit existing alerts while using Amazon Lookout for Metrics. With this launch you can now add filters to your alerts configuration to only get notifications for anomalies that matter the most to you. You can also simply modify existing alerts as per your needs for notification as anomalies evolve.

A NEW camera tube for ultra-violet, the Uvicon, is claimed by Westinghouse Electric International to be 200 times more sensitive than Vidicon type tubes. So, 61 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18th 1961. The story continues: The Uvicon was developed for the UV spectrum extending from 1200 to 2000 …

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Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer suspended for saying he believed that an AI software programme called LaMDA had developed sentience or self-awareness, had these exchanges with the machine which make you wonder. ‘lemoine: I’m generally assuming that you would like more people at Google to know that you’re sentient. Is that true? LaMDA: Absolutely. I …

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