Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are introducing multidirectional custom terminology, to give you more control and flexibility over your translation workflows. Custom terminology is a feature of Amazon Translate that enables you to customize your translation of named entities such that your brand names, character names, model names, and other unique content using your terminology file. With multidirectional custom terminology, you no longer have to constrain yourself to set the first column of your terminology file as your source language. You will be now able to use the same terminology file to translate both to and from a specific language.

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can index and search documents from Microsoft SharePoint 2013 or Microsoft SharePoint 2016 servers.

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6i instances are available in additional AWS Regions Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). Designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage and network resources, M6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. These instances are SAP-Certified and are ideal for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end servers supporting enterprise applications (e.g. Microsoft Exchange Server and SharePoint Server, SAP Business Suite, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL databases), gaming servers, caching fleets, as well as for application development environments.

The Nikkei’s Recovery Index assesses countries and regions on infection management, vaccine rollouts and social mobility. The higher the ranking, the closer a place is to recovery, characterized by fewer infections, higher inoculation rates and less-strict social distancing measures. Here it is:

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Rather than shout at the radio again, I produced a handy infographic* I am sure it doesn’t apply to all politicians** For those that it does apply to (and can still learn), I once again recommend the totally brilliant ‘Twenty tips for interpreting scientific claims‘, published by Nature. It is written by Biologist Professor William …

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When it comes to constellations, size is the prize. Our rather puny UK constellation, OneWeb, is aiming to put up 648 satellites. The richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, wants to launch 7774 satellites. The second richest man in the world, Elon Musk, wants to launch 42,000 satellites But outstripping them all in ambition …

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 Samsung says it has developed the industry’s first 14nm based 16Gb Low Power Double Data Rate 5X (LPDDR5X) DRAM. The LPDDR5X DRAM will offer data processing speeds of up to 8.5Gbps, which are over 1.3 times faster than LPDDR5’s 6.4Gbps. It will use around 20% less power than LPDDR5 memory and will enable up to …

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The US communications company Viasat is to acquire the London-based Inmarsat, with a view to building a global, hybrid space and terrestrial network, providing broadband and IoT services. The transaction is valued at $7.3 billion, with Viasat using $850 million in cash, approximately 46 million of its shares (valued at $3.1 billion) and the assumption …

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Today, tech minister Chris Philp (pictured) will kick off the UK’s campaign for a council seat at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – the UN telecoms agency which helps manage the world’s phone and satellite networks. The ITU allocates global spectrum and develops technical standards which enable everyday technologies such as mobile phones, television, vehicle …

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Schurter is aiming at easy-clean and sleek-looking surfaces with a ‘capacitive hidden switch’ that can be mounted behind thin non-conductive panel. Called the ‘CHS’ range, they come in three versions: non-illuminated, illuminated and sealed illuminated. They are mounted by gluing them to the back of the panel with 3M 468MP tape. CHS 1 circuit – output …

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