Real-Time Web Analytics with Kinesis Data Analytics is a solution that can help you more easily track website activity. This solution automatically provisions the services necessary to track and visualize website clickstream data in real-time. The Real-Time Web Analytics with Kinesis Data Analytics solution is designed to provide a framework for analyzing and visualizing metrics in real-time, allowing you to focus on adding new metrics rather than managing the underlying infrastructure.

Amazon Polly is a Text-to-Speech service that uses advanced deep learning technologies to synthesize speech that sounds like a human voice. The new SSML Breath feature mimics the sound of inhalation and/or exhalation during normal speech. With the SSML Breath tag, you can now insert appropriate breath sounds to make the Amazon Polly generated speech sound even more natural, as if the text is being narrated by a human speaker.

Network Load Balancer, designed to handle millions of requests per second while maintaining ultra-low latencies, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. Network Load Balancer is optimized to handle volatile traffic patterns while using a single static IP address per Availability Zone. It operates at connection level (Layer 4), routing connections to Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses based on IP protocol data. It also preserves the client-side source IP, allowing applications to see the IP address of the client that can then be used by applications for further processing. 

AWS CodePipeline can now execute pipelines in response to push-based triggers from Amazon S3. Previously, if you were using S3 as a source action , CodePipeline checked periodically to see if there was a change. Now, S3 will send an Amazon CloudWatch Event when a change is made to your S3 object that triggers a pipeline execution in CodePipeline.  

AWS Cloud9 now supports local debugging for Python-based AWS Lambda functions. This enables you to set breakpoints and step through your code, helping you quickly iterate on your code within the IDE before deploying to Lambda.

ROHM has availability of high-fidelity power supply ICs optimized for audio devices requiring high-resolution playback. The BD372xx series are the first audio power supply ICs to combine leading-edge analog and sound reproduction technologies. In addition to integrating a newly developed fast response error amp circuit and low-noise architecture, multiple parameters that were shown to affect …

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Later today the EU is to produce a plan for taxing large digital companies. These companies have been avoiding paying taxes on profits because they can establish their European  HQ in low-tax areas. So today the EU  will propose a flat 3% tax on turnover on companies with European revenue over €750,000. The tax is …

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Small Robot Company of Shropshire, the agri-tech start-up, will showcase its prototype Rachael robot at the GREAT Festival of Innovation in Hong Kong. Rachael has all the core technology needed for the company’s  forthcoming Tom, Dick and Harry arable farmbots. This includes autonomy, geolocation, obstacle avoidance, navigation and the ability to accurately position objects on a …

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In-house-developed apps processors by Apple, Samsung, and Huawei (Hisilicon) will take almost 30% of the smartphone AP market in 2018, says Digitimes Research. Digitimes Research reckons that  total shipments of smartphone APs will grow 1.5% on year to 1.67 billion units in 2018, and to 1.77 billion in 2021. Qualcomm will remain No.1 with MediaTek …

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Real-time DNA sequencer firm Oxford Nanopore Technologies has raised £100M to support its next phase of commercial expansion, including building a 34,000sqft bespoke high-volume manufacturing facility on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. “This new facility represents a significant increase in Oxford Nanopore’s manufacturing capabilities, replicating and growing the manufacturing processes developed over the years within …

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