AWS announces the general availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks, a feature that allows customers to invoke custom logic to automate actions or inspect resource configurations prior to a create, update or delete CloudFormation stack operation. Over 1 million customers use AWS CloudFormation every week to model, provision, and manage their cloud applications and infrastructure in a safe, predictable, and repeatable way. With AWS CloudFormation Hooks, customers can now validate resource properties and send a warning, or prevent the provisioning operation, for non-compliant resources to reduce security and compliance risk, lower operational overhead, and optimize cost. 

Who should be dominating the cloud market? Why IBM of course which knew more about hooking up computers than anyone else when the market started. Who is dominating the cloud market? Why AWS of course which out-invested and under-quoted everyone else when the market started. According to estimates from Synergy Research Group, Amazon’s market share …

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I don’t know about you but I find it confusing having multiple conversational streams coming in on my mobile devices. Up until recently I had only two – text and email – and only used a single email address to keep things simple. Increasingly,  I now find, people put me on WhatsApp links which means …

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Percepio is supporting Zephyr and Microsoft Azure ThreadX RTOSs with version 4.6 of Tracealyzer. The release includes the company’s next-generation trace recorder library with improved support for snapshot trace – snapshot recording opens the door to using its cloud service (DevAlert) for monitoring application code executing in deployed IoT devices. Trace data can now be saved …

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Aimed at robot hands and grippers, Tactaxis from Melexis is a soft tactile sensor prototype that outputs a measure of the 3D force vector acting on its surface. “This improves robots’ hands and grippers, making delicate operations such as fruit picking possible,” according to the Belgian company. Uniquely, it said, it’s gradiometric approach makes it …

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Diodes has added diagnostics to two-wire Hall-effect switches to ready them for ISO 26262 automotive functional safety. “They monitor main device blocks, supply voltage and temperature, with a third lower current output state,” according to the company. “This enables them, as a ‘safety element out of context’ [SEooC] to support ISO 26262 functional safety system integrations.” …

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The University of Surrey has created a flexible and stretchy supercapacitor “that can be easily integrated into footwear, clothing, and accessories”, it said. Building one involves transferring aligned carbon nanotube arrays from a silicon wafer to a PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) matrix in which they are partly embedded for robustness. This is then electro-coated with polyaniline to improve …

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Google’s release of Flutter 2.10 – the mobile user interface toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code – sees added support for Windows Apps. The embedded UI toolkit embraced Windows, macOS and Linux back in March 2021, but now there is support for Windows as an app target, …

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 SL Power Electronics,  the AC/DC power conversion specialist, has announced of the TE and ME family of external power supplies. The TE series is approved to Industrial/ITE standards and the ME meets medical requirements, and between them they meet the needs of a very wide range of applications. 9 model ranges are available with standard …

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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has announced details of its new IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference. As the name suggests, it will be concerned with coordinating action to help mitigate the impact of satellite constellations on ground-based optical and radio astronomy observations. Specifically, it will …

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