Following the announcement of updates in MySQL database versions 5.7 and 8.0 , we have updated Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL to support MySQL minor versions 5.7.38, and 8.0.29.

Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds new instance sizes stream.standard.xlarge, and stream.standard.2xlarge to the General Purpose instance family. stream.standard.xlarge offers 4 vCPUs and 16 GiB of memory, and stream.standard.2xlarge offers 8 vCPUs and 32 GiB of memory. These new instances provide higher performance options of compute, memory and networking resources for a diverse set of workloads that require more system resources to run effectively. A few examples include Integrated Development Environments, Web Servers and Code Repositories. The new instance sizes are available across all AppStream fleet types Always-On, On-Demand, and Elastic fleets.

Amazon SageMaker comes with two options to spin up fully managed notebooks for exploring data and building machine learning (ML) models. The first option is fast start, collaborative notebooks accessible within Amazon SageMaker Studio – a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning. You can quickly launch notebooks in Studio, easily dial up or down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, and even share your notebook as a link in few simple clicks. In addition to creating notebooks, you can perform all the ML development steps to build, train, debug, track, deploy, and monitor your models in a single pane of glass in Studio. The second option is Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instance – a single, fully managed ML compute instance running notebooks in cloud, offering customers more control on their notebook configurations. Today, we are excited to announce that both SageMaker Studio and SageMaker Notebook Instance now come with JupyterLab 3 notebooks to boost productivity of data scientists and developers building ML models on SageMaker.

Amazon Personalize has extended support for unstructured text in six new languages – Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and Japanese. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Last year, Amazon Personalize launched support for unstructured text in English which enabled customers to unlock the information trapped in their product descriptions, reviews, movie synopses or other unstructured text to generate highly relevant recommendations for users. Amazon Personalize is now extending this support to unstructured text in six new languages allowing customers with global catalogues to use this feature. Customers provide unstructured text as a part of their catalogue and, using state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) techniques, Amazon Personalize automatically extracts key information about the items and uses it when generating recommendations for your users.

Amazon Chime SDK messaging enables developers to connect business users and their customers with secure, scalable messaging in their web and mobile applications. Starting today, developers have access to new APIs that provide the ability to search for specific channels as well as automatically pre-fetch information when clients connect to display the messaging channels that require users attention when opening their application.

Across my four departmental responsibilities – science, technology industry and commerce – I head an organisation employing 42,763 civil servants, Ed confides to his diary, of whom the vast majority don’t come to work any more. This has set me thinking. With most of my 42,763 minions representing a vulnerable entry node into HMG’s computers, …

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I have just put a fan case around my Raspberry Pi 4 – on which I am typing these very words. The brushless fan, from Pi Hut, is always on and, while it is commendably quiet, could be even quieter – especially as Raspberry Pi OS now includes an on-off control option that depends on …

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Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows just how effective vaccines have been in all but eradicating major diseases in the United States. In 2020, there were no reported cases of small pox and paralytic polio for example, compared to an annual average of 29,005 cases and 16,316 cases in the 20th …

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Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a stretchable and waterproof ‘fabric’ that turns energy generated from body movements into electrical energy. A crucial component in the fabric is a polymer that, when pressed or squeezed, converts mechanical stress into electrical energy. It is also made with stretchable spandex as a base …

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The total EV power electronic system market, made up of main inverters, DC/DC, and OBC, will grow to $26 billion by 2027, says Yole Developpement. Key components, such as power electronic devices and battery cells, will remain the critical issues for OEMs. A strong focus is being shifted to efficiency from a holistic view, to …

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