Amazon Nimble Studio today supports the ability for administrators to validate their launch profile configurations directly from the console, which can help them enhance the artist’s experience when provisioning a workstation.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports memory optimized R5 instance types in new region
On June 2021, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle has launched the additional configurations of the R5 instance in various regions.
Amazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation for managing dataset and dataset group resources
Amazon Forecast now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to utilize CloudFormation templates to provision and manage your dataset and dataset group resources. You can also easily launch and configure dataset and dataset group resources together as a stack, and use a template to create, update, and delete an entire stack as a single unit, as often as you need to instead of managing resources individually. This adds a new convenient way of managing Forecast dataset and dataset group resources in addition to the Forecast Console and AWS CLI/SDK.
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Despite the billions spent by women on handbags – the silliest extravagance before NFTs came along – the designers of handbags have failed to come up with one that is practicable. Just think for a second of a woman and a handbag: What is she doing with it? A lot of the time she is …
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Fable: A European First
In 1949, in Prague, a German scientist and an American-Czech physicist, using germanium crystals, built this – the first of its kind in Europe: Moral: Much can be done with little information
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TT Electronics debuts HPDC chip resistors
TT Electronics has announced the debut of its HPDC series of high power density chip resistors. This specialist design is optimised for power management, actuator drive, and heating applications which benefit from the enhanced heat transfer from element to terminal. The use of such high power density components saves PCB area and boosts reliability by restricting the …
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NASA picks new chief scientist and senior climate advisor
Dr. Katherine Calvin has been appointed NASA chief scientist and senior climate advisor, having worked at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI). In her role as chief scientist, Calvin will advise on the agency’s science programmes and science-related strategic planning and investments. As senior climate advisor, NASA explains she will …
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PC units down 5% in Q4 but up 10% on the year.
Q4 PC unit shipments were down 5% y-o-y at 88.4 million units, says Gartner while, for the year, PC unit shipments reached 339.8 million units – a 9.9% increase on 2020. “The fourth quarter’s decline only slightly tempered the PC market’s growth in 2021, which saw the highest shipment volume since 2013,” says Gartner’s Mitako Kitagawa, …
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Semtech and Lacuna Space add IoT-to-Satellite connectivity to LoRaWAN
Semtech and Lacuna Space aim to extend the coverage of LoRaWAN by adding IoT-to-Satellite connectivity. “We have trials and demonstrations underway in many countries and regions that were previously thought to be inaccessible to IoT,” says Lacuna Space CEI Rob Spurrett, “with this collaboration, we expect to begin commercial services within the first half of 2022.” The collaboration …
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TSMC plans 2022 capex of $44bn
TSMC has set a 2022 capex budget of $40-44 billion as it expects Q1 sales of $16.6 billion to $17.2 billion and growth for the year of 15-20%. The capex target is at least $10 billion more than kast year from last year and 43% higher than Intel’s $25 billion to $28 billion. The company …
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