Today, Amazon Connect introduces contact flow versioning, making it easy to preview, modify, and publish past versions of a flow with just a few clicks within the contact flow designer. Rolling back between a saved or published version is simple, allowing you to review how a flow evolved and inspect how it was previously configured, enabling experimentation. Previously, customers could only revert to the last saved or published version, limiting their ability to track changes.

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of AWS Security Hub, a new security service that provides customers a comprehensive view of both their compliance with the security standards and their high priority AWS security alerts, or findings. Customers simply turn on Amazon Security Hub in the AWS Management Console, and the service immediately begins conducting automated and continuous compliance checks, providing a comprehensive and timely view of a customer’s overall security and compliance status.

AWS Control Tower is now generally available and supported for production use. AWS Control Tower is a service that is intended for organizations with multiple accounts and teams who are looking for the easiest way to set up their new multi-account AWS environment and govern at scale. With AWS Control Tower, cloud administrators get peace of mind knowing accounts in their organization are compliant with established policies while builders provision new AWS accounts quickly in a few clicks.

A specialist customisation service for ABS enclosures with no minimum order quantities or set up fee is offered by BCL Enclosures, the 47 year-old Harrogate, UK-based specialist manufacturer of standard and custom plastic enclosures. The company prides itself on the breadth of its standard product range, which it is then able to customise to suit …

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Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs and Amber, the Centre for Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research at Trinity College Dublin, have created a  formula for battery composition that claims to make batteries last 2.5 times longer than anything currently on the market. Increasing the energy storage capability of lithium-ion batteries necessitates maximisation of their areal capacity. This requires thick …

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Coilcraft’s surface-mount common-mode chokes include 16 sizes for power line circuits up to 10A, suppressing noise up to 100MHz with >40dB attenuation in some cases. Consumer electronics and industrial applications are foreseen. “All EMI chokes feature a low-profile, toroidal construction in a surface-mount, magnetically-shielded package with footprints as small as 13 x 13 mm,” said …

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Researchers at the University of Lancaster have created a non-volatile memory that might eventually store data for 1% of the energy required by DRAM and 0.1% that of flash – both modelled at 20nm. “Our device has an intrinsic data storage time that is predicted to exceed the age of the Universe, yet it can …

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Electrocardiograph and seismocardiograph readings can be taken simultaneously by an e-tattoo, according to the University of Texas at Austin – seismocardiography (SCG) is a measure of chest vibrations associated with heartbeats. “We can get much greater insight into heart health by the synchronous collection of data from both sources,” said Austin engineer Nanshu Lu. The active …

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Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment registered another sequential increase in May. North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.06 billion in billings worldwide in May 2019, says SEMI. The billings figure is 7.4% higher than the April 2019 level of US$1.92 billion, but is 23.6% lower than the May 2018 billings …

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Chinese organisations involved in supercomputing have been added to the US Entity List of bodies barred from buying US technology. They include: Sugon, the Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit and Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology. They all have alias names which have also been put on the Entity List. Four …

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