Today, Amazon Lex announces language support for Austrian German. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text so you can build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. Now you can deliver a robust and localized conversational experience that understands Austrian German.

Starting today, you can configure EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet to automatically terminate a Spot Instance when using Capacity Rebalancing. With Capacity Rebalancing, EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet attempt to replace a Spot Instance when it is at an elevated risk of interruption as indicated by the EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation signal. Until now, EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet launched a replacement Spot Instance without terminating the Spot Instance that received a rebalance recommendation, meaning you needed to either manually terminate the instance once workload rebalancing was completed, or let the instance run until it was interrupted by EC2. Now, you can set up EC2 Fleet or Spot Fleet to automatically terminate the instance that receives a rebalance recommendation with a specified termination delay.

AWS Toolkits for JetBrains , VS Code and Cloud9  now provide customers with the ability to select and view from a list of 245 resource types across 94 services without leaving their IDEs. With this release, in addition to accessing AWS services that are listed by default in the AWS Explorer pane, customers can choose from hundreds of resources to interact with. This feature uses the AWS Cloud Control API enabling the Toolkit to continually and rapidly add new resource types in the future. 

A team of heroes once emerged from the Arizona desert to run a Californian chip company whose founders had left to form a great new company. The heroes’ leader was given a remuneration package which staggered the industry. The heroes ran the company into the ground and, 11 years later, it was sold off abroad. …

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The Climate Action Tracker has published the global warming goals of 36 countries and the E.U. and has projected achievements based on concrete policies and actions already put in place until 2030. Scientists believe that a global warming of 2° Celsius in total would already raise sea levels by 56 centimeters, increase heat days by 25 …

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MicroCarb is a UK-France mission that will be dedicated to monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the UK Space Agency (UKSA) has provided new funding for the initiative it has announced. Dr Paul Bate, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, and Laurence Monnoyer-Smith, Director of Sustainable Development of the French space agency, CNES, signed an …

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NXP has added to its EdgeReady portfolio with a face recognition device which uses a 3D structured light module (SLM) camera combined with the i.MX RT117F crossover MCU. By combining a 3D SLM camera with an MCU to deliver 3D face recognition at the edge, it removes the need to use aLinux implementation on an …

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Synopsys has bought Concertio, the AI software specialist to improve its SiliconMAX Silicon Lifecycle Management (SLM) Platform. The platform is integrated with Synopsys’ TestMAX family of test products and technologies. Links to the Synopsys Fusion Design Platform provide the ability to minimize and root-cause parametric yield failures due to silicon variation. These links also ensure that SLM solutions …

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New Jersey Silicon carbide power transistor maker UnitedSiC has been acquired by Qorvo – the combined company formed by the merger of TriQuint and RF Micro Devices in 2015. To be called Qorvo’s Power Device Solutions, it will be led by Chris Dries, formerly president and CEO of UnitedSiC. “The acquisition of United Silicon Carbide expands Qorvo’s …

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Typically, verication is done by synthesising RTL and running it to see how well it performs against the performance specification that were defined at the start of the design. By adjusting the design, the performance is improved with each RTL run but each iteration can take weeks to effect. Sondrel has developed a methodology that …

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