Amazon SageMaker training jobs now support ml.trn1 instances, powered by AWS Trainium chips, which are purpose built for high-performance ML training applications in the cloud. You can use ml.trn1 instances on SageMaker to train natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and recommender models across a broad set of applications, such as speech recognition, recommendation, fraud detection, image and video classification, and forecasting.

Today, we are introducing a new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to help you optimize provisioning of Spot Instances via EC2 Auto Scaling, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet. The price and capacity optimized allocation strategy makes Spot allocation decisions based on both spare capacity availability and Spot Instance price. The price and capacity optimized allocation strategy is the best choice for most Spot applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, image and media rendering, machine learning, and high performance computing (HPC). 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the October 2022 Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 19c and Oracle Database 21c.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports two new addresses for the default gateway router for IPv6. With this launch, we now support the following addresses: $SUBNET::1 and FE80:EC2::1. These addresses can be used for static router configuration and within applications that are restricted to communicate with only global unicast addresses (GUA).

NICE DCV version 2022.2 introduces multiple new features, such as support for Mac computer Retina displays and time zone redirection. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that is designed to help customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs.

AWS CloudTrail announces the ability to use your own Customer Managed KMS Keys (CMK) to encrypt the activity logs stored in CloudTrail Lake. CloudTrail has always provided encryption by default using AWS owned KMS keys for all data stored in CloudTrail Lake. This feature provides you the option of adding a self-managed security layer to your activity logs to help you meet the compliance and regulatory requirements of your organization.

A researcher who excelled in inventing memory technologies invented SAMOS memory, developed an industry leading Mbit DRAM and led a team which demo-ed the first GAA transistor. His most influential invention was ignored by his company but exploited by another company, whereupon his own company denied that their employee had invented it. Sales of the …

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Private space travel is taking off, with around $265 billion having been invested in space startups since 2014. According to Space Capital, almost half of this sum went to companies in the U.S., while another 30 percent was invested in Chinese firms. Space 2.0 marks a new wave of space travel. The boom is primarily …

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Rocket Lab USA has won two worth $14 million to provide satellite separation systems for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s T1TL (Tranche 1 Transport Layer) satellites. The two contracts will see the space launch services company supply 80 Lightband Separation Systems (Lightbands) to the manufacturers of the satellites, one of which is Lockheed Martin, the …

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An ESA broadband satellite that was developed in the UK and will be demonstrating next-gen 5G connectivity from low Earth orbit (LEO) is entering its final assembly ahead of launch. Its fully digital beam-hopping and beam-steering payload can switch between different places on Earth up to 1000 times per second, says the agency, and adjust …

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