Amazon Comprehend now supports documents in image formats in addition to text, PDFs, and Word. Customers can now use Comprehend custom entity recognition to extract entities from image files (JPG, PNG, TIFF) and can also use Comprehend directly on Amazon Textract JSON outputs to extract custom entities from documents. With this launch customers can simplify their intelligent document processing (IDP) workflows, taking advantage of an out-of-the-box integration between Comprehend and Textract to extract entities from documents. Below is a detailed description of these features:

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now publishes Auto Scaling instance lifecycle states in the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS), enabling you to easily initiate on-instance actions as an instance transitions from one lifecycle state to another. Instances in an Auto Scaling group transition through various lifecycle states from the time they are launched and placed in service to when they are removed from service and terminated. By polling IMDS, you can setup your on-instance application to easily determine its lifecycle state without having to setup Amazon CloudWatch Events  or other services.

AWS Lambda customers can now configure up to 10,240 MB of ephemeral storage for their Lambda functions, a 20x increase compared to the previous limit of 512 MB. This helps workloads such as financial analysis, machine learning inference, and media processing applications perform data intensive operations at scale.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) while accessing the RDS Service APIs . 

Here’s a circuit which changed the industry: Developed very largely without the knowledge of management and launched on the market in 1964, it revolutionised IC design.    

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We recently shone a spotlight on new additions to the EW BrightSparks selection panel. Today, we’re very happy to announce a mainstay of the  judges will also be adding her considerable support: Isabella Mascarenhas, Vice President, Grass Roots & Shining Stars at RS Components. The UK-based distributor has been ever-present in its support of EW BrightSparks, from …

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Skyports, the electric air taxi and drone drone services provider, has raised $23 million in the first close of its Series B funding round, with capital coming from new and existing investors. Specifically, all existing institutional shareholders participated in the round including Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures, Groupe ADP, Solar Ventus, Irelandia and Levitate Capital. These …

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The Smart Sound Connect Marine 5G Mobile Private Network, deployed by Vodafone in partnership with Nokia and operated by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), has been set up as is a 5G marine-focussed testbed. The testbed will be free to use for local and international businesses to create and develop marine 5G use cases. The first …

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After an unprecedented 30%  growth year in 2021, the analogue IC market is expected to have double-digit growth this year, says IC Insights in its 1Q Update to the 2022 McLean Report. Total analogue IC sales are forecast to rise 12% to $83.2 billion in 2022, with unit shipments increasing 11% to 238.7 billion (Figure …

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Imec.xpand II, the second fund raised by the early-stage deep tech investor, has closed its second fund at €150 million in committed capital. The independently managed imec.xpand funds invest in ambitious startups that benefit significantly from imec’s knowledge, expertise, network and/or infrastructure in the development of their innovative, technology roadmap. All imec.xpand portfolio companies are …

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