You can now use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service discovery to discover and connect Amazon ECS tasks that use the bridge and host networking modes. This makes it easy to start using ECS service discovery for containerized applications running on Amazon ECS.

Starting today, AWS Batch is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region via AWS CLI. Console support will be available on May 30.

AWS AppSync has expanded regional availability footprint now to the EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions.

Lattice has introduced two hardware artificial intelligence algorithm accelerators for its FPGAs, one for binarised neural networks (BNNs) and one for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Both are aimed at implement neural networks in consumer and industrial network-edge products. They are not suitable for network training, which must be done elsewhere. ‘Binarized neural network (BNN) accelerator’ supports …

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ST has published its 21st sustainability report – an annual report instituted to highlight and maintain the conpany’s commitment to the environment and sustainable growth. Highlights of the report for 2017 are: ST reinvested about 31% of total revenues in R&D and capex & development – an investment in innovation and future growth; ST strengthened …

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Micron is shipping the industry’s first SSD built on quad-level cell (QLC) NAND technology.

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Kudelski Group, the Swiss security specialists, are to provide the security for u-blox’s IoT devices. Kudelski and u‑blox agreed to collaborate toward integrating the Kudelski IoT Security Suite into multiple u-blox product lines. “Digital transformation and IoT projects can only achieve their objectives if security is designed from the start, and a long-term, security lifecycle …

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Sony has bought out the other significant shareholder, Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Group, from ownership of EMI Music Publishing as part of its transition strategy. Today, CEO Kenichiro Yoshida (pictured) is expected to announce Sony’s transition from being a hardware company to becoming a company based on gaming subscriptions, software, entertainment, content and services. Buying Mubadala’s …

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Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC) is to move its HQ from the Hamamatsucho Building (Toshiba Building pictured Left below) to Tamachi Station Tower S in the Tamachi district (pictured right below). Since getting Chinese approval last week for the sale of the business to a consortium led by Bain and Hynix, Toshiba has been preparing to …

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Element14 has launched a 6 part bi-weekly BeagleBone webinar series. Presented by Jason Kridner, the co-founder and board member at BeagleBoard.org Foundation  and the element14 team,  the series provides community members with a grounding in the fundamentals of BeagleBone and will show how to have fun with BeagleBone  boards. The series includes the following episodes: Introduction to BeagleBone BeagleBone for …

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