Read below for 26 new or updated datasets from University of Sydney, International Brain Laboratory, Taiwanese Central Weather Bureau, and others are available on the Registry of Open Data in the following categories.

Distributed Load Testing on AWS is a solution that automates software applications testing at scale and at load to help you identify potential performance issues before their release. It creates and simulates thousands of connected users generating transactional records at a constant pace without the need to provision servers.

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Forecast Weather Index is now also available in the Central America, Middle East and Africa regions. Weather Index can increase your forecasting accuracy, by automatically including the latest local weather information in your demand forecasts with one click and at no extra cost. Weather conditions influence consumer demand patterns, product merchandizing decisions, staffing requirements and energy consumption needs – however – acquiring, cleaning, and effectively using live weather information for demand forecasting is challenging and requires ongoing maintenance. With this launch, customers who have been using Weather Index in North America, South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, can now, with one click to your demand forecast, also include 14-day weather forecasts for Central America, Middle East and Africa.

AWS Glue includes crawlers , a capability that make discovering datasets simpler by scanning data in Amazon S3 and relational databases, extracting their schema and automatically populating the AWS Glue Data Catalog , which keeps the metadata current. This reduces the time to insight by making newly ingested data quickly available for analysis with your favorite analytics and machine learning tools.

In January 1917, this guy sent this telegram to Heinrich von Eckard, then Germany’s ambassador to Mexico: ‘We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor in spite of this to keep the United States of America neutral. In the event of this not succeeding, we make Mexico a …

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Here’s another candidate book for your coding shelves – Flutter Apprentice, which will help you get to grips with the cross-platform toolkit. It will be available for free for the next three months via the publishers Razeware.

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The  IMF’s purchasing managers’ index shows how supply chain disruptions have developed during the pandemic, spiking in early 2020 and picking back up over the course of 2021 as goods become more in demand as economies re-open. Still reeling from lockdowns and restrictions as well as the loss of manpower due to illness or travel …

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It’s been a while since we covered an iFixit teardown, and the repairability raters have had a go at the Nintendo Switch OLED, which went on sale last week.

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General Electric (GE) has announced a five-year, $3.5 million (£2.5m) investment in the UK as part of its global Next Engineers programme, to increase the diversity of young people entering engineering. The UK programme will be based in Staffordshire, where GE operates three sites that design, develop, and service products used throughout the power and …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has relaunched its Planetary Defence Office, which works to protect Earth from dangerous near-Earth objects, aka asteroids. As part of this, it has expanded its coordination facilities serving as the central hub for the Agency’s asteroid data and analysis efforts. These are located in Frascati, outside Rome, and will be …

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