You can now create your own Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) resources using AWS CloudFormation templates in multiple new regions. Amazon SES is a scalable, cost-effective, and flexible cloud-based email service that allows digital marketers and application developers to send marketing, notification, and transactional emails from within any application. To learn more about Amazon SES, visit this page. SES can be used via SDK, CLI, Console, and AWS CloudFormation templates

Amazon QuickSight now supports auto refresh for direct query controls every 24 hours. This new feature provides a more streamlined experience for QuickSight readers to use controls for their dashboards without having to manually refresh the control values from their direct query datasets. For further details about QuickSight data refreshing, visit here .

Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, now supports OpenQASM 3.0 for gate-based quantum devices and simulators. With this launch, customers have the choice of using the Braket SDK to build and run programs as before, or directly supply equivalent OpenQASM 3.0 strings via the Braket SDK and API. Amazon Braket’s introduction and ongoing support for OpenQASM 3.0, will continue to make it easier for customers to migrate quantum programs between different development environments.

Amazon Connect Customer Profiles, which combines contact history from Amazon Connect with disparate customer data from third-party applications into a unified customer profile, now provides a no-code experience for configuring how customer data from sources such as Salesforce and S3 is aggregated into a profile. This helps makes it simple for admins to provide agents with the customer information they need by customizing how data is added to customer profiles without writing code. Through the Amazon Connect AWS console, admins can customize how data is mapped to a customer profile, create user-defined data attributes on a profile, and customize the search keys available to find profiles. At launch, the following data sources are supported: Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Salesforce, ServiceNow, Zendesk, and Marketo. 

Amazon DynamoDB now supports limiting the number of items processed in PartiQL  operations as an optional parameter on each request.

The 2020s have started badly. The US-China trade war, followed by coronavirus, followed by a European war have battered the world’s hopes of a return to normality. In the meantime we had the worst shortfall between IC demand and supply in the history of the semiconductor industry. In response, the industry is abandoning its resolve …

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There is a novel sort of bicycle dynamo that holds a strong magnet loosely in a little box next to the wheel rim. Once the wheel starts to rotate, the magnet’s field starts to interact with the passing aluminium (it only works with aluminium wheel rims) and the magnet starts to spin around in its …

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How hard would a US/EU ban on Russian oil hit the world – and Russia?” According to the  latest UN Comtrade data, the combined effect of a US-EU import stop would be significant despite China being the largest recipient of Russian oil by a large margin. Even just taking into account the countries included at …

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January semiconductor sales of $50.7 billion were up 26.8% on January 2021’s sales of $40 billion but 0.2% down on December sales of $50.9 billion, reports the SIA. “Following record sales and units shipped in 2021, global semiconductor sales remained strong at the beginning of 2022, reaching the second-highest-ever monthly total in January,” says SIA …

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Cliff Electronic manufactures PCB mount 4mm shrouded sockets which can mate with both safety shrouded and unshrouded plugs. The right-angled design reduces strain between the PCB and the lead, increasing reliability and product lifetime. The sockets are suitable for a  range of applications including automotive diagnostic, industrial, medical, music industry, instrumentation, education, and bench and hand-held electrical …

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