AWS Backup announces AWS Backup Audit Manager, a new feature that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory needs. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager helps you maintain and demonstrate compliance with those policies.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Aria, Polly’s first New Zealand English voice. Aria is a neural text-to-speech (NTTS) voice that is expressive, natural and easy to follow.

Today, we announced the AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency to support AWS customers looking for AWS Partners with deep specialization and expertise protecting and monitoring essential AWS resources on behalf of their customers.

Retained messages is a standard MQTT feature that provides an easy way for you to store the latest important message on a topic for future subscribers. With AWS IoT Core, you can now use retained messages to easily push configuration information or important updates to devices without knowing exactly when they will come online.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, you can assign tags to easily organize, track, or control access your resources. This can be used to allocate costs or get detailed billing reports across your Transcribe jobs. You can attach tags to resources such as transcription jobs, vocabulary, vocabulary filter, and custom language models within Transcribe.

AMERICAN electronics companies are aggressively going after more foreign business. Undoubtedly, within the coming year, more of them will have established manufacturing and sales bases in other parts of the world, especially industrialised Europe. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18th 1961. The story continues: Virtually all firms …

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Loads of folks are thinking about buying an EV. A much smaller number are buying them – probably more as an affectation than as a result of serious decision-making. Nevertheless, the decision looms. The  thorny Q is: would buying an EV from a traditional car maker be a bit like buying the first horseless carriage …

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At Hot Chips,  today, IBM  showed its  Telum Processor, designed to bring deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in real-time . Telum is IBM’s first processor that contains on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing while a transaction is taking place. Three years in development, this on-chip hardware acceleration is designed to help customers achieve business …

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BYD Semiconductor, the chip-making subsidiary  of Chinese EV manufacturer BYD, has been forced to postpone its IPO by a regulatory intervention. It is the latest in a series of regulatory moves harming Chinese companies. BYD Semiconductor had hoped to raise$420 million to invest in its business to expand output during the chip shortage. The Chinese regulator …

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Richardson RFPD is offering availability and full design support  for two highly high-speed converters from Analog Devices, Inc. The AD9081 and AD9082 mixed-signal front-ends combine high-performance analog and digital signal processing and allow designers to install multiband radios in the same footprint as single-band radios. By shifting more of the frequency translation and filtering from …

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