We are excited to announce that you can now add horizontal annotations to your graphs and dashboards in CloudWatch. 

Starting today, you can search for your data sets, analyses and dashboards in QuickSight using the unified search box, making it faster and easier for find and access your data. Additionally, we are introducing Filter Groups. You can now create a filter group in QuickSight with multiple filter conditions that are evaluated together using the OR operation. Across filter groups, the AND operation is applied. This provides you with more flexibility to apply advanced filtering criteria to your data. Finally, we releasing the Amazon S3 Analytics Connector in QuickSight. Amazon S3 customers can now create data sets and analyses of their S3 Analytics data that spans across multiple S3 buckets and configs. This allows you to analyze and optimize your S3 usage using a single comprehensive QuickSight dashboard. 

If you’re using Route 53 traffic flow, you can now use geoproximity routing, which lets you route traffic based on the physical distance between your users and your resources. You can also route more or less traffic to each resource by specifying a positive or negative bias. 

Lam Research has bought Coventor – the simulation and modeling specialist for semiconductor process technology and MEMS. The combination of Lam and Coventor supports Lam’s advanced process control vision and is expected to accelerate process integration simulation. “We see a strong synergy between our modeling capability and Lam’s desire to enable virtual experimentation of process development …

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It looks as if the politicians will take control of Brexit from the bureaucrats and that’s fine by me, Ed confides to his diary. The bureaucrats’ Brexit negotiating guidelines are too narrow for anything resembling ‘negotiation’, so the politicians will have re-set the guidelines. Businessmen across Europe are  worried that the uncertainties over trade will …

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Toshiba has launched a microSD UHS-I card with a read speed of up to R100 MB/s and which is shock proof, water resistant and x-ray proof. Available in memory capacities from 16GB to 256GB and targeted at the mainstream customer with its cost-effective entry-level design in the UHS-I category, the microSD M203 offers mobile users …

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On Wednesday the EU Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court, is expected to rule on the Intel anti-trust fine imposed eight years ago. The ruling will have a big effect on how US companies react to EU legal penalties. In 2009, Intel was hit with a $1.26 billion fine for abuse of a dominant market …

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Fujitsu Laboratories has expanded its Creative Digital Space User-Interface (UI) technology which enables co-creation activities across multiple locations. Previous Creative Digital Space technology has streamlined the sharing of information amongst numerous people by enabling collaboration through connecting multiple large screens and other devices in a single location. When sharing data between multiple locations, however, the …

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Alibaba is trialling its ‘smile-to-pay’ facial recognition technology at a KFC in Huangzhou. The process does not require a smartphone. So long as a customer has signed up to the service, a facial scan is all that is required. However, if further  verification is required, a smartphone is needed. Alibaba is using the technology developed …

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A €63 million development in Djibouti will see up to 45,000 m3/day of drinking water delivered by renewable powered desalination…