Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 8 Redshift Processing Units (RPU). Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPU and you pay only for the duration of workloads you run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously the minimum base capacity required to run serverless was 32 RPU. With the new lowered base capacity minimum of 8 RPU, you now have even more flexibility to support diverse set of workloads of small to large complexity based on your price performance requirements.

QuickSight Embedding SDK is a Javascript library that allows developers to integrate analytics functionality into their products and applications. The SDK version 2.0 supports TypeScript, ES6 (async/await) syntax, and utility features that enable developers to quickly build analytics experiences within their applications. 

Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.10.17, which includes several important fixes and performance optimizations to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.10.10. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational burden by using Amazon MQ to manage the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers. Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols to help you easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code.

A bit of fun. I came across a mention of this on a recent No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. It’s the Zenith Lazy Bones TV remote control, the very first TV remote, apparently…

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Pictured today is the 1.13m High Gain Antenna of the European Space Agency’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence. It is being prepared for testing in the acoustic reverberation chamber of the IABG test centre in Germany.

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Folding phones seem to be an Asian thing led by Samsung which is by far the market leader. Motorola squeezes in with 0.04 market share.           Two of China’s top smartphone makers — Honor Device and Oppo — released their first foldable models for the international market in Barcelona  in a …

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There was once an engineer who proposed to his boss that the company should file a patent for a semiconductor memory. The boss reckoned “such an idea so ridiculous that filing the application would be a waste of company money.” Seven years later, the boss co-founded a company specifically to make semiconductor memory. It became …

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For example, what caught David Manners’ eye this week was Intel asking the Germans for another €4-5bn in subsidy on top of the $7bn already allocated, to build a fab in Germany…

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The Satellite Applications Catapult has announced its chief executive, Stuart Martin, has decided to stand down from his role. He has held the position since January 2013, with the inception of the catapult. Before then he had a 23-year career in the space industry. The search for his successor will begin immediately and is expected …

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OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT AI chatbot, has announced new APIs for both its ChatGPT and Whisper offerings. The latter being a speech-to-text model it open-sourced in September 2022. The new ChatGPT API calls the gpt-3.5-turbo model, which is now being used in the ChatGPT product. The company also describes it as its best …

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