Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a capability of Amazon SageMaker that accelerates your machine learning workflows with one-click access to popular model collections from TensorFlow Hub, PyTorch Hub and Hugging Face (also known as “model zoos”), and to 16 end-to-end solutions that solve common business problems such demand forecasting, fraud detection and document understanding.

AWS Step Functions Local, a runtime for debugging and testing state machine based workflows locally, is now designed to support mocking for service integrations, allowing you to run state machines without the need to call downstream services.

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now offers an option to provision storage throughput for Amazon MSK, enabling customers with high throughput workloads to seamlessly scale I/O without having to provision additional brokers. By provisioning up to 1000 MiB/s of throughput to Amazon MSK storage volumes, you can scale I/O requirements past 250 MiB/s without having to provision additional brokers. When configured, you pay a low rate for the amount of storage throughput provisioned in the clusters.

AWS Lambda has launched improved auto scaling for Amazon MSK and self-managed Kafka as event sources to improve performance and help lower costs for customers. Lambda starts with one consumer and checks the OffsetLag metric (measure of backlog at source) every minute and scales up or down every 3 minutes. Lambda allows up to one consumer per partition per topic for a Kafka cluster. Previously, Lambda used to start connection with Kafka clusters at 50% of maximum number of consumers, check for OffsetLag, and scale up consumers every 15 minutes.

Amazon Connect now allows you to configure your chat duration from 1 hour to 7 days. This enables you to define how long your customers have to resume a chat interaction before it expires. To configure the duration of chats in Amazon Connect, simply add an optional, new parameter when calling the StartChatContact API to create a new chat contact.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. We are excited to announce multiple transcripts and confidence scores support for speech input. The transcripts provide alternate interpretations of the user’s speech input. Each transcript is associated with a confidence score that indicates the likelihood of a match. The transcripts along with the confidence scores can be used to enhance the conversation design.

I’m in a bit of a pickle, Ed confides to his diary, in fact more like a damned, devilish jam. The Russkies have asked me to push my hoard of ICs their way. I’ll get vastly more for them from the Russkies than if we dribble them out to the market in small quantities, as …

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At the turn of the century, there was a big move in the USA to try and get householders to have telephones installed. Here is an ad from that time promoting the new-fangled gadgets:

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Some new Arduino hardware is coming to town, joining the Arduino PRO Portenta family: the Portenta Cat M1/NB IoT GNSS Shield

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Panasonic’s SP-Cap portfolio of Aluminum Polymer capacitors is suitable wherever a low ESR would be the primary consideration for identifying the most suitable capacitor. Panasonic’s advanced Solid Polymer technology, the SP-Caps, have proven to be an alternative to multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) and pure tantalum capacitors. They require less parts and space on the PCB …

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