Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 21c. You can now launch Amazon RDS instances for Oracle Database 21c.

Bottlerocket, a Linux based operating system that is purpose built to run container workloads, now supports GPU based EC2 instance types that are powered by NVIDIA. Customers can now benefit from using the same container focused host operating system for both their non-GPU and GPU workloads, including machine learning, video encoding, and streaming workloads. This helps customers standardize on a single operating system that utilizes the underlying specialized compute hardware.

Unusually for me I have decided to rise above my normal money-grubbing ways and use my position as Minister for Commerce to crack down on people who are trying to make money out of war, Ed confides to his diary. There  are so many ways of making money out of war:  oligarchs offering money for …

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 Nikola Tesla’s Death Ray is to be deployed to defend  Ukraine. A prototype of the Death Ray  has been built over a period of 10 years by the Australian scientist Professor Adrian David Cheok .with funding from Khazanah Nasional, Malaysia, and it will be provided to Ukraine as a defensive weapon. The electric prototype is …

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Self-drive cars put in twice as many miles on Californian roads last year as in 2020 with 22 companies driving over four million miles last year, according to the California Department Of Motor Vehicles (DMV) which licenses driverless car tests on public roads. The DMV has licensed 50 companies but only 22 actually tested cars last …

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The US Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded three American companies contracts, worth up to $1,774 million, to produce a constellation of 126 LEO (low-Earth orbit) satellites, for a space-based mesh satellite communications network. Each will produce 42 satellites by 2024, operating in two near-polar low Earth orbital planes (21 space vehicles, or satellites, for …

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Four year-old Californian photonics start-up Luminous has raised a $105 million Series A. Bill Gates was among the investors which included Gigafund, 8090 Partners, Third Kind Venture Capital, Alumni Ventures Group and Strawberry Creek Ventures. Luminous got  $1 million pre-seed funding in 2018 and  $9m seed funding in 2019. The company employs 90 people and …

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Imec has developed a impulse-radio UWM transmitter IC measuring 0.155mm², with a power consumption of less than 10 milliwatt (mW), fabbed in 28nm CMOS. The chip can accommodate data transfer rates of 1.66Gb/s. This is 50 times the speed supported by today’s UWB standard The chip’s performance strengthens researchers’ belief that UWB is perfectly capable …

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Optimizing first for best power instead of best timing delivers better results all around. Among the key targets in place-and-route—performance, power, and area (PPA) — performance has traditionally been the primary focus. Low power has been gaining in importance though, particularly at today’s advanced process nodes. Of course, no one wants lower-performing chips, so place-and-route …

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Analog Devices is to invest €100 million in a Europen research centre in Limerick, over three years. ADI Catalyst will be a 100,000ft2 custom-build its campus on the Raheen Business Park in Limerick. “ADI Catalyst is a state-of-the-art collaboration accelerator where ecosystems of customers, business partners and suppliers engage with ADI,” according to the company. “This …

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