Amazon Rekognition Video is a deep learning-based video analysis service that can identify objects, people, text, scenes, and activities, as well as detect unsafe content. Content Moderation for Amazon Rekognition Video can identify various types of explicit and suggestive content, as well as timestamps for where such content appears during the video. Amazon Rekognition Video now comes with an enhanced moderation model that reduces false positive rates by 40% on average without any reduction in detection rates for truly unsafe content. Lower false positive rates imply lower volumes of flagged videos to be further reviewed by human moderators, leading to higher efficiency and more cost savings. Moreover, Amazon Rekognition provides a hierarchical set of moderation labels that can be used to create business rules to handle different geographic and demographic requirements. For more details on supported labels, please see this page . No machine learning experience is required to get started. 

Once a crowdfunding darling, LIFX was losing money with its hardware approach. It will now be part of a broader smart buildings and services company called Buddy.

This Quick Start automatically deploys the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform into a new or existing virtual private cloud (VPC) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 40 minutes. The Quick Start includes AWS CloudFormation templates and a deployment guide.

The Amplify CLI, part of the Amplify Framework, now supports multiple environments and teams by offering a Git style workflow for creating and switching between environments for your Amplify project. When you work on a project within a team, you can create isolated backends per developer or alternatively share backends across developers, including to those outside your organization.

New support for IAM roles and MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) enables customers to use an IAM role, with or without MFA enabled, and access AWS resources managed by the Amplify Framework. This helps enforce AWS security best practices and controls across your organization.

Custom resolvers for AWS AppSync enable you to write resolver logic and attach data sources such as Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains, or HTTP endpoint that were provisioned independently of the Amplify GraphQL Transformer. This can be completely achieved without needing to go to the AppSync console or deploy your own CloudFormation stacks with a separate deployment process.

Customers can now add more than 150 models as a part of the GraphQL Transformer schema, up from 15 models in the previous version of the Amplify Framework. Custom resolvers can be defined directly from the local Amplify project and pushed up using this new functionality.

To learn more about Amplify Framework, please visit our documentation . For more details about these features, refer to our blog post.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Today, Amazon DocumentDB added support for auditing of database events. With auditing enabled, Amazon DocumentDB will record Data Definition Language (DDL), authentication, authorization, and user management events to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. You can use Amazon CloudWatch Logs to analyze, monitor, and archive your Amazon DocumentDB auditing events. For more information, please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide/event-auditing.html

Amazon DocumentDB is generally available and you can use Amazon DocumentDB in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland).

Amazon GuardDuty has added three new threat detections. Two of the detections are new penetration testing detections and the third a policy violation detection. These three new detections represent the latest in a continuously growing library of fully managed threat detections available for customers who enable Amazon GuardDuty in their AWS accounts.

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 18.1 and 18.2 versions of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for the Oracle Database versions 11.2, 12.1 and 12.2. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser.

For more details on supported APEX versions and how to add or modify APEX options for your RDS Oracle database, please refer to the Amazon RDS for Oracle Documentation.

Amazon RDS for Oracle makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale Oracle Database deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for Oracle Database Pricing for regional availability.
 

A chip which resets a portable device after lock-up due to a software malfunction, has been launched by Ricoh. The R3201 provides a reset cycle to the application processor that is long enough to reset it properly. It has two independent reset request inputs (RST0, RST1) to connect a single reset switch or by using …

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Intel has joined up with Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City to introduce True View technology to TV coverage of their matches which allows immersive match views from any angle. Intel True View re-creates the action on the pitch and presents that from an ideal vantage point or player’s perspective. The tech offers: Multi-angle views of a …

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