With AWS Glue DataBrew, customers can now use IF, AND, OR, and CASE logical conditions to create transformations based on functions. With this feature, customers have the flexibility to use custom values or reference other columns within the expressions, and can create adaptable transformations for their specific use cases.
CodeBuild Supports Publicly Viewable Build Results
AWS CodeBuild project owners are now able make build logs and artifacts publicly accessible to people who are not logged into the AWS Console. This simplifies how CodeBuild project owners are able to collaborate with open source contributors because project owners don’t need to administer AWS account access for each contributor.
Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS with certificates from third-party CAs and ACM Private CA
Amazon API Gateway enables customers to authenticate clients using certificate-based mutual TLS, where digital certificates are exchanged between the client and API Gateway before a secure connection is established. Previously, only certificates issued by AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) could be used as the server certificate when configuring mutual TLS in API Gateway. Starting today, customers can use a server certificate issued by a third-party certificate authority (CA) or ACM Private CA.
AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data into Tableau Hyper format
AWS Glue DataBrew recipe jobs now support Tableau Hyper as a data output format, allowing customers to easily take the prepared datasets from Amazon S3 and upload them into Tableau for further visualization and analysis. For a list of supported output formats, please see the AWS Glue DataBrew output formats table .
US vs China in AI
Apart from Quantum, AI is the most over-used undefined term used in tech today. Last year China beat the US in AI Citations for the first time, with China accounting for 20.7% of the total, versus 19.8% for the US according to Stanford University. In March, the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence warned that the …
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Jobs Glut
There are an awful lot of reports of shortages of workers. It seems particularly acute in the hospitality area but it’s not confined to hospitality. Either people have found more agreeable or more lucrative ways to earn a buck in self-employment or they taken early retirement, found a sugar mummy/daddy or learnt to live off …
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BA threads are metric
Despite being standardised in the late 1800s, BA threads, the British Association threads used in old electrical equipment, including vehicle magnetos, are based on the metric system. A BA0 bolt has is 6mm in diameter, 1mm in pitch and needs a 10.5mm spanner. From here, multiply the pitch by 0.9 to get the pitch of …
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Kioxia speeds and slims its 3D UFS flash memories
Kioxia is sampling its newest generation of 256 and 512Gbyte 3D flash memory. Aimed at mobile applications, its ‘universal flash storage’ (UFS) version 3.1 devices “improve performance by 30% for random read and 40% for random write, making them faster than their predecessors,” according to the company, which added that, at 0.8mm, the new 256Gbyte parts …
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Cambridge start-up offers ‘active cancellation’ chips to replace RF filters in mobiles
Forefront RF is a Cambridge-based fabless semiconductor company set-up to make ‘adaptive passive cancellation’ ICs to replace conventional switched SAW and BAW crystal filters “across the increasingly wide range of 3G to 6G mobile telephony frequency bands”, it said. It was founded in 2020 by Leo Laughlin (right in photo) and Julian Hildersley. who have been …
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Lockheed Martin prepares in-space satellite upgrade demonstration for launch
Lockheed Martin has completed environmental testing of the cubesats for its geostationary ‘Linuss’ mission, intended to demonstrate how small satellites can be used to regularly upgrade satellite constellations by adding capabilities and extend spacecraft lives. “Space is a dynamic domain and our customers are demanding the ability to upgrade spacecraft on orbit – to provide greater …
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