Researchers at Virginia Tech have combined liquid metal and a heat-activated adhesive to create an electrically conductive patch that bonds to fabric when heated with a hot iron. “E-textiles and …

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Starting today, new general purpose Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M9g instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in preview. AWS Graviton5 is the latest in the Graviton family of processors that are custom designed by AWS to provide the best price performance for workloads in Amazon EC2. These instances offer up to 25% better compute performance, and higher networking and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) bandwidth than AWS Graviton4-based M8g instances. They are up to 30% faster for databases, up to 35% faster web applications, and up to 35% faster for machine learning workloads compared to M8g.

M9g instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of hardware and software innovations designed by AWS. The AWS Nitro System enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multitenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 M9g instances are ideal for workloads such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets.

To learn more or request access to the M9g preview, see Amazon EC2 M9g instances . To begin your Graviton journey, visit the Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page .

Amazon Bedrock now supports Responses API on new OpenAI API-compatible service endpoints. Responses API enables developers to achieve asynchronous inference for long-running inference workloads, simplifies tool use integration for agentic workflows, and also supports stateful conversation management. Instead of requiring developers to pass the entire conversation history with each request, Responses API enables them to automatically rebuild context without manual history management. These new service endpoints support both streaming and non-streaming modes, enable reasoning effort support within Chat Completions API, and require only a base URL change for developers to integrate within existing codebases with OpenAI SDK compatibility.

Chat Completions with reasoning effort support is available for all Amazon Bedrock models powered by Project Mantle, a new distributed inference engine for large-scale machine learning model serving on Amazon Bedrock. Project Mantle simplifies and expedites onboarding of new models onto Amazon Bedrock, provides highly performant and reliable serverless inference with sophisticated quality of service controls, unlocks higher default customer quotas with automated capacity management and unified pools, and provides out-of-the-box compatibility with OpenAI API specifications. Responses API support is available today starting with OpenAI’s GPT OSS 20B/120B models, with support for other models coming soon.
To get started, visit the service documentation here

This week the choices include a more environmental way to extract rare earth minerals, TSMC building ten 2nm fabs, and Equal1 installing a Bell-1 Quantum Computer at the ESA’s Φ-lab…

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Thanks to escalating geopolitical tensions, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and a global rush to modernise and expand military arsenals, the arms manufacturers are doing well. Last …

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54 years ago, a new category of chip product was invented by this gentleman   who, at the 1971 ISSCC, presented the first example of the new product category pictured …

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The Greek semiconductor specialist Circuits Integrated will establish its first UK presence, expanding its R&D operations, at the Surrey Research Park. The company specialises in advanced IC, antenna-in-package (AiP) and …

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The start of December means that DigiKey has kicked off its annual DigiWish Giveaway. It offers entrants an online chance to win DigiKey product prizes each day of the Christmas …

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1.25 billion smartphones are expected by IDC to be sold this year, representing  YoY growth of 1.5%. Apple’s 2025/shipments are forecast to grow 6.1% YoY. “Apple is set to have a …

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA‑E) has awarded UC Davis researchers a $3 million grant to develop a bio‑based process that selectively captures rare earth elements …

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