Today, Amazon Location Service added two new HERE map styles for developers, HERE Explore and HERE Explore Truck. With HERE Explore, developers have a new global map that features roads, buildings, landmarks, and water features, including a fully designed map of Japan. With HERE Explore Truck, developers can now display a global map containing truck restrictions and attributes e.g., width, height, HAZMAT, symbolized with highlighted segments and icons on top of HERE Explore to support use cases within transportation and logistics. For example, a customer who manages a fleet of delivery trucks, who needs to calculate the optimal driving route with appropriate restrictions, can use HERE Explore Truck to see driving routes with restrictions shown on the map.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL adds support for mysql_fdw which allows your PostgreSQL database to connect and retrieve data stored in separate Amazon Aurora MySQL-compatible, MySQL, and MariaDB databases. 

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions. Using Container Insights, you can monitor, isolate, and diagnose containerized applications and microservices environments through automated dashboards. This helps you visualize the performance and health of Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate resources including clusters, services, tasks, and containers.

The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen-sharing, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Amazon Voice Focus uses artificial intelligence to help reduce background noises such as fans, lawnmowers, and barking dogs. Starting today, developers can use Amazon Voice Focus with Amazon Chime SDK Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) audio applications to help reduce unwanted noise on PSTN audio calls. Builders can use this feature for customer service conversations to help improve caller experience.

AWS IQ Experts can now complete proposals with one click. Previously, you were required to send a final payment request to close a proposal, even if no additional payment was needed. Now you can select the “Complete’” button within an open proposal without requesting an additional payment.

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now support hybrid post-quantum key establishment for transport layer security (SSL/TLS) connections using the latest post-quantum ciphers from Round 3 of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) selection process. These TLS configurations allow you to measure the potential performance impact of PQC algorithms ahead of a formal standardization announcement. You can also benefit from the longer-term confidentiality afforded by hybrid post-quantum TLS.

The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is now available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. This deployment option give you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers typically under 35 seconds, and readable standby instances. 

The picture shows the first of two solar arrays on the agency’s Psyche spacecraft, which was successfully deployed in JPL’s storied High Bay 2 clean room.

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Thanks to Google we’re home-doctoring ourselves and, in my case anyway, getting it hopelessly wrong. Every snivel and ache encourages a run for an on-line diagnosis, but these are usually too diffuse to be helpful. “A pain in your big toe may mean that you stubbed it on the bedpost getting up this morning or, …

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The Top Ten foundries had Q4 sales of $29.5 billion – up 8.3% q-o-q, reports TrendForce.   Constrained capacity and rising ASPs drove the increase. The 5 foundries account for nearly 90% of global market share. TSMC had 4Q revenue of $15.75 billion, a QoQ increase of 5.8%. Samsung had 4Q revenue of $5.54 billion, …

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