Amazon MQ now provides support for ActiveMQ 5.17.2, which includes several fixes and enhancements to the previously supported version, ActiveMQ 5.17.1. The default connection limits for ActiveMQ brokers on Amazon MQ has been increased to 300 connections per transport protocol for mq.t2.micro and mq.t3.micro broker types and 2,000 connections per transport protocol for all other supported broker types.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Starting today, you can now use Amazon Polly inside an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) , instead of connecting over the internet, which allows you to have better control over your network environment.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the preview of Customer Provided Ephemeris support for AWS Ground Station, empowering space vehicle owners to provide their own position and trajectory information for a satellite as it orbits the Earth. Over the next year, satellite ride share providers are planning on launching more than 100 satellites from around the world. With Customer Provided Ephemeris, flight operations crews can conduct tracking and telemetry operations for space vehicles until entry into final orbit. Customers can also use this feature to improve the quality of tracking of satellites already in orbit and to modify antenna pointing based on orbital maneuvers.

Zap-Map has completed its annual ranking of EV charging services. Each operator is scored out of five stars, with the overall rating based on five key areas: reliability, ease of use, customer support, value for money, and payment options. This year’s winners are the two ultra-rapid networks: Fastned and MFG EV Power.. Fastned has 30 …

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Thanks to Canalys for this one – Q2 market shares for smartphones: % Samsung        21 Apple               17 Xiaomi             14 Oppo                10 Vivo                  09  

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The latest figures from DMASS show distribution sales grew in the summer quarter with 44.3% increase in semiconductor distribution sales for a record revenue of 35.8bn Euros. The total components distribution market grew by 34% (5.1bn Euros) of which interconnect, passive and electromechanical (IPE) grew 14.8%. A lot of this growth can be explained by …

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At next week’s electronica in Munich (15-18 November) Farnell is hosting a competition in association with  nearBees, an online platform designed to assist beekeepers in Germany in establishing and maintaining local honeybee colonies. Members of the element14 Community can enter the Save the Bees design challenge, using Ardunio’s MKR1310 and Arduino Pro Nicla vision boards …

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UK Government ministers visited Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay yesterday ahead of the long planned, and long awaited, first satellite launch from UK soil. But still no date has been announced.   Science Minister, George Freeman, and Transport Technology Minister, Jesse Norman, joined representatives from the UK Space Agency to meet the spaceport people behind the …

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The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has hosted the UK’s first high-powered, long range laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) trial, for the DragonFire system. Taking place on the Ministry of Defence’s range at Porton Down in Wiltshire, it involved firing the demonstrator at a number of targets over a number of ranges, requiring …

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Omnivision is sampling a square 2MP (1500×1500) resolution CMOS image sensor for gastrointestinal, ENT, orthopedic, surgical, dental, and veterinarian reusable and disposable endoscopes, catheters, and guide wires. The OH02B imager is available in the smallest form factor 2.5×2.5mm CameraCubeChip package (OCH2B) for disposable designs. It features AntLinx proprietary technology, which provides the thinnest 4-metre interface connection …

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