Amazon RDS for SQL Server is announcing new enhancements to its backup and restore capabilities. You can restore a backup file to the same DB instance that was used to create the file, and you can restore the same backup file to a DB instance multiple times. To learn more, visit our documentation on importing a SQL Server Database into Amazon RDS .

Amazon API Gateway launched the Serverless Developer Portal, a hub that empowers API publishers to connect with API subscribers who want to discover and quickly leverage APIs in the applications they build.

This Quick Start deploys a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 15 minutes, to automatically test AWS CloudFormation templates from a GitHub repository.

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Today, we are launching 113 new language pairs. Customers can now translate between currently supported languages , such as French to Spanish for example, with a single API request. With this update, we are expanding the number of supported language pairs from 24 to 137. All supported language pairs are based on state-of-the-art neural machine translation algorithms. See the full list of supported language pairs on this documentation page . 

Kyocera has introduced a clamshell-style branch connector for automotive electronics that features a locking structure for waterproof connections, ensuring reliability in harsh conditions. Samples of the Sheltap 9715 Series Waterproof Electronic Branch Connector are available upon request. Kyocera designed the Sheltap branch connector series to provide a high level of waterproof functionality and reliability — …

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Schneider Electric has announced a range of preassembled distribution boards. Premade at Schneider Electric’s low voltage (LV) manufacturing plant in Telford, the Quick Build Units (QBU) will save time and cut the costs of installation for contractors and end users. Distribution boards are an essential part of a building’s electrical network, supplying power to its …

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Renesas is aiming at industrial robots by adding support for DDS-XRCE (data-distribution service for extremely resource constrained environments), one of the protocols planned for the ROS 2 communication standard. Specifically an XRCE-DDS client (‘Micro XRCE-DDS’ from eProsima) has been implemented on Renesas’ 32bit RX65N MCUs. “Robot Operating System – ROS – is a key framework …

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Your chance to help determine the destination of an Elektra 2018 Award, for the Consumer Product Innovation category.

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Good old Philippines – they have the world’s cheapest beer, according to Deutsche Bank, The bank has done a survey of the price of a pint across the planet, and this is the result:

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Over the weekend I decided to spend an hour installing OctoPi on a Raspberry Pi – OctoPi is the Raspberry Pi version of 3D printing host programme OctoPrint. How naive… it was only hours later I had something running. What did I learn? Firstly, and most importantly, Gina Häußge (‘Foosel’) and Guy Sheffer (guysoft) are to be …

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