We are excited to announce three featured FreeRTOS AWS Reference Integrations. FreeRTOS AWS Reference Integrations are pre-integrated FreeRTOS projects ported to partner-provided microcontroller-based evaluation boards that demonstrate secure end-to-end connectivity to AWS IoT Core. The three featured FreeRTOS Reference Integrations projects are developed in collaboration with our partners Espressif, NXP and STMicroelectronics. Each project uses the latest FreeRTOS and AWS Embedded C SDK Long Term Support (LTS) libraries , and the latest microcontroller architecture capabilities. Developers can customize these three projects into a complete, production-ready, IoT product.

Today, we are announcing the Developer Preview of the Amplify Android library that has been rewritten for Kotlin. This initial release enables Android developers to add cloud-based app features, including Auth, Storage, DataStore, and APIs for their Kotlin-based Android projects. Developers will benefit from Kotlin-based language features like coroutines.

New upgrades are now available for customers using Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances, including the availability of the ml.g5 GPU instance family, and Python 3.8 support.

You can now use Amazon Athena to query views stored in your self-managed Apache Hive metastores . Hive views are defined using the Hive Query Language (HiveQL) which is not fully compatible with Athena’s standard SQL. With this new capability, Athena automatically handles HiveQL syntax differences so you can query Hive views without changing your view definitions or maintaining a complex translation layer. 

AWS Secrets Manager now publishes a metric to Amazon CloudWatch for the number of secrets in your account. With this feature, you can easily review how many secrets you are using in Secrets Manager. You can also set alarms for an unexpected increase or decrease in number of secrets.

You wait ages for an educational robot to come trundling along, and then two come together: this one is the Create 3, the educational robot from iRobot.

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A METHOD of storing highly radioactive waste by converting it into an insoluble glass-like solid has been announced by the UKAEA. So, 61 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 12th 1961, The story continues: Development work is being done by scientists and engineers of the Chemical Engineering Division at the …

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Spin qubits in diamond can be made fault-tolerant, according to researchers from Fujitsu, Element Six and QuTech, who have designed and built one. Quantum bits are noisy, and techniques are needed to handle this noise of quantum computers are to be useful. One possibility is not to work with single qubits, but to do identical …

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 Trameto, the energy harvesting PMIC (EH PMIC) specialist, has closed a  second round of seed funding. Investors are the Development Bank of Wales and u-blox. The bank is an existing equity investor and board observer, and u-blox will also join the board as an observer.  “This funding round enables us to embark on the next part …

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Trustonic of Cambridge has been granted Common Criterial Evaluation Assurance Level [EAL] 5+ for version 510a-V007 of its Kinibi operating system – against a protection profile defined by GlobalPlatform, the industry body responsible for trusted execution environments. “This certification is truly the gold standard for secure OSs, and we are delighted to have been recognised and …

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