Amazon OpenSearch Service adds a new connection mode for cross-cluster connection, simplifying the setup required to remote reindex between a local domain and remote VPC domains. Remote reindex enables you to migrate data from a source domain to a target domain. Remote reindex is also useful when you have to upgrade your clusters across multiple major versions. 

Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports three new completion criteria to help you customize your tuning jobs based on your desired trade-off between accuracy, cost, and runtime. 

The UK is to send  11 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine,  the U.S. will deliver 31 Abrams tanks, Germany will send  14 Leopard 2s, Poland will send 14, the Netherlands will send 18 with more to come from Norway and Finland, and probably Spain and Portugal.

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I’ve been remiss not to flag this one earlier: a sophisticated new version of the Raspberry Pi camera – the Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3.

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Here was an ad, 61 years ago, to give a pause for thought. It appeared in Electronics Weekly’s issue of May 24th 1961:  

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BT and Stratospheric Platforms are to test phased array antennas designed to provide 4G and 5G coverage from stratospheric aircraft into the wilds. “This partnership will build on SPL’s world-first 5G demonstration from the stratosphere in 2022,” said SPL CEO Richard Deakin. Funded by Innovate UK, the trials will be at BT’s labs at Adastral …

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Espressif has used RISC-V cores in its latest ESP32 wireless microcontrollers: ESP32-C6 – ICs, modules and SDK imminent Dual RISC-V cores (160MHz + 20MHz), Wi-Fi 6 (2.4GHz), Bluetooth 5 (LE), 802.15.4 protocol ESP32-P4 – just announced Triple RISC-V (400MHz + 400MHz + 40MHz), AI instructions, no wireless ESP32-C6 ESP32-C6 has a 160MHz RISC-V core for …

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Diodes has announced silicon carbide Schottky diodes rated at 650V and 1.2kV, the company’s first SiC Schottkys. The DSCxxA065 series has eleven 650V diodes rated at 4, 6, 8 or 10A. The DSCxx120 series has eight 1.2kV diodes rated at 2, 5 or 10A. “These wide-bandgap Schottky barrier diodes bring the benefits of significantly improved …

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STMicroelectronics has created an on-line version of its STM32 microcontroller artificial intelligence development tool, with a benchmarking service. “We are unveiling the first MCU AI developer cloud, which works hand-in-glove with our STM32Cube.AI ecosystem,” said ST MCU v-p Ricardo De Sa Earp. “This tool brings the possibility to remotely benchmark models on STM32 hardware through …

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Q4 smartphone shipments declined 18.3% y-o-y to 300.3 million units, says IDC, which was the largest-ever quarterly fall. Full-year shipments fell 11.3% to 1.21 billion units – the lowest since 2013. The replacement rate is 40 months plus, says IDC’s Anthony Scarsella. Top 5 Companies, Worldwide Smartphone Shipments, Market Share, and Year-Over-Year Growth, Q4 2022 …

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