3o years ago this year, Jerry Sanders and Irwin Federman were having lunch in the Chantilly, Palo Alto, a restaurant which closed down earlier this year after 43 years serving customers in Palo Alto and, later, Redwood City. They were merging their companies. AMD paid $442 million for Monolithic Memories. Chantilly was an expensive restaurant …

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Macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema can be diagnosed by artificial intelligence viewing non-invasive light-based optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans. The AI can also make referral and treatment recommendations. “Macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema are the two most common causes of irreversible blindness but are both very treatable if they are caught early,” said …

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Exhibitors at Embedded World 2018 will show embedded PCs designed for new and established applications. At the high-throughput end of embedded processing are the embedded PCs and this year at Embedded World Congatec has introduced a Mini-ITX motherboard for the high-end of high‑throughput embedded processing (pictured). Called conga-IT6, it includes a COM Express Type 6 …

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Texas Instruments has introduced two 4-36V buck power modules that measure 3.0 x 3.8mm (1.6mm high), requiring two external capacitors to complete the dc-dc converter in each case: 0.5A LMZM23600 and 1A LMZM23601. Final footprint of non-adjustable versions is around 27mm2 Packaged the firm’s 10pin MicroSiP, they are up to 92% efficient, and 85% efficient …

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When you’re one of the world’s richest men I suppose you can think nothing of donating $42m towards a clock designed to last 10,000 years. That’s what Jeff Bezos has done.

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In the lighting industry, management and ownership continues to churn.

Network Load Balancer can now distribute requests regardless of Availability Zone with the support of cross-zone load balancing. This feature allows Network Load Balancer to route incoming requests to applications that are deployed across multiple Availability Zones.

Today, we are pleased to announce that AWS DeepLens customers can now directly import models from Amazon SageMaker into AWS DeepLens. This improved integration makes model deployment much more efficient by consolidating the model import process down to a single click rather than the previous multi-step workflow, so that you can start generating predictions even faster. 

Oracle Patch Set Updates contain critical security updates and other important updates. The January 2018 PSUs are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle. To learn more about the Oracle PSUs supported on Amazon RDS, visit the Amazon RDS patch update documentation . 

The Amazon WorkDocs web application has been redesigned to create a more productive collaboration experience for users. The new user interface allows users to better organize their files and makes it easier to share content with others. Users can now access common features, like editing, locking and unlocking files, viewing their favorites, and sharing content, all with a single click. They can also gain insights about how their files and folders are being used, and control who has access to their content quickly and easily. A new My Account panel gives users a central place to manage their profile and account settings