Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available. This version supports the latest Java feature release OpenJDK 18 and is available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. You can download Corretto 18 from the downloads page . Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK . Corretto is distributed by Amazon under an open source license .

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics announces support for call summarization, a machine learning (ML) capability that helps improve the productivity of contact center agents and managers so they can focus on providing excellent customer experiences. Using the Transcribe Call Analytics API, developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) can analyze audio recordings and add call analytics to their applications without needing any ML expertise.

Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Presenters can now deliver real-time media to 10,000 participants. Participants can be brought “on stage” with their existing WebRTC connection, allowing them to contribute to the live conversation without missing a moment of content.

Starting now, AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Reports (CURs) provide more granular and detailed billing of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) charges. Additional detail is reported for Amazon RDS Backups and General Purpose, Provisioned IOPS, and Magnetic Storage volumes that are provisioned in Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and SQL Server database instances. Your bill will contain a detailed break down of costs by database engine for the above Amazon RDS resources and features.

AWS Cost Categories now supports resource and tag-based access controls for easy management and access to cost categories. You can define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to specify fine-grained permissions for AWS Cost Categories based on resource names and tags, improving governance and information security through these two granular access control features.

The war has put paid to a 23 year old concept that two nations which have a MacDonald’s in them would never go to war with eachother. In 1999, Thomas Friedman came up with his “Golden Arches Theory,” which holds that “no two countries that both had McDonald’s had fought a war against each other …

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Semiconductor materials revenues grew 15.9% to $64.3 billion in 2021, beating  the previous market high of $55.5 billion set in 2020, says SEMI. Wafer fab materials and packaging materials revenues in 2021 totaled $40.4 billion and $23.9 billion, respectively, for y-o-y increases of 15.5% and 16.5%. The silicon, wet chemicals, chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP), and photomask segments …

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The government is looking for an organisation to run a new body called the  UK Telecoms Innovation Network (UKTIN) which will act as an information point for telecoms companies looking to access funding or testing facilities for R&D and opportunities to collaborate on developing technologies for UK mobile and broadband networks. The government has  launched …

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The UK government has awarded a £180K grant to Sentinel Photonics to develop a sensor to detect and identify laser threats in civilian contexts. The original technology was created by the Dstl (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) for military use – to detect and assess the threat levels of lasers deployed against personnel, aircraft and …

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This week could determine the future of Toshiba – whether it stays under Japanese ownership or gets sold to private equity. A shareholder vote on Thursday could support  a group of activist shareholders including Effissimo Capital Management and 3D Investment Partners of Singapore, Farallon Capital Management of San Francisco and  Oasis Management of Hong Kong …

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