The Amazon Lex speech recognition engine has now been trained on telephony audio (8 kHz) to provide increased speech recognition accuracy for conversations over the phone. Amazon Lex enables your users to interact with your application via natural conversation using the same deep learning technology as Amazon Alexa to fulfill most common requests. Amazon Lex chatbots maintain context and manage the dialogue, dynamically adjusting the responses based on the conversation. 

We are excited to announce that CloudWatch Events now allows different AWS accounts to share events with each other. You can now collect all your events from different AWS accounts to a single account. These events can be EC2 events, AWS API call events, AWS health events, and more. Please see the list of supported events here .  

Amazon Connect now allows you to use Amazon Lex chatbots with your contact flows. With Amazon Lex chatbots, you can add self-service, natural language voice conversations to your contact center customer interactions.

Starting today, Amazon QuickSight Enterprise Edition customers can use Federated Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML 2.0 to access QuickSight. This allows users to sign in to their Identity Provider portals with existing credentials and then access QuickSight with a single click, without having to enter any QuickSight-specific account names or passwords. With Federated SSO and QuickSight’s permissions-based just-in-time user provisioning capabilities, AWS administrators can use existing identity management mechanisms to enable QuickSight access for thousands of users with a few clicks. 

Artesian’s source of supply from the now fully-integrated system in New Castle County.

Act will establish the Watershed Improvement Fund, with annual funding of $50 million.

Contract worth over £27 million.

Building on its CleO smart display, Bridgetek adds wireless connectivity to the mix.

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The EU investigation into the $38 billion Qualcomm-NXP bid has been paused pending delivery of information from the two companies, The EU says that the date for delivering a verdict – which was to have been Oct 17 – will now be put back with the ‘clock re-started’ from the date the information is provided. …

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Dialog invests another $15 million into Energous, the wireless charging specialist, on top of the $10 million last November.

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