Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amplify Library for Swift (previously Amplify iOS)! This release allows Swift developers to easily build cloud-connected iOS apps. Since its Developer Preview release in April 2022, we have re-written our APIs to support idiomatic Swift features like async/await that makes it easier for developers to implement structured concurrency. We also want to take this opportunity to introduce beta availability of macOS support–one of our most requested features–with watchOS and tvOS support coming in future releases. As with the Preview, the Amplify Library for Swift is open source on GitHub, and we deeply appreciate the feedback we have gotten from the community.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces Quick build support for time-series forecasting models, enabling faster prototyping and experimentation to select the best performing machine learning (ML) model. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate machine learning (ML) predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code.

On October 18th, 2022 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 19.0.1, 17.0.5, 11.0.17, 8u352 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK.

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now provides SDKs for stream chat with support for web, Android and iOS. The Amazon IVS stream chat SDKs support common functions for chat room resource management, sending, and receiving messages, and managing chat room participants. Visit the Amazon IVS chat documentation  to learn more. Using the Amazon IVS stream chat SDKs incurs no additional charges beyond standard Amazon IVS usage costs.

Today, AWS launched the AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension, a convenient method for AWS Lambda users to retrieve parameters from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and secrets from AWS Secrets Manager. AWS Lambda customers can leverage this extension to improve their application performance as it decreases the latency and the cost of retrieving parameters and secrets. Previously, customers had to initialize either the core library of a service or the entire service SDK inside a Lambda function for retrieving secrets and parameters, now they can simply use the extension. This lightweight and easy-to-use extension caches parameters and secrets, and persists them throughout the lifecycle of the Lambda function. The extension runs inside an isolated execution environment using the same permissions as the role of the user running the Lambda function.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region.

This cnc conversion is taking for ever. But it is progressing. A few stolen hours this weekend meant that an x-axis stepper motor mount could be designed and printed (right). This is actually the second attempt at this – I used the wrong belt length in the first one, and made little attempt to get …

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Visitors to London over the weekend had a chance to see a life-size replica of the first rocket that will launch from UK soil later this year – the Virgin Orbit LauncherOne, due to take off from Spaceport Cornwall.

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Bell Laboratories research scientists have used a specially formulated wire, manufactured from niobium and tin, to demonstrate the feasibility of very high strength  magnetic felds in the superconducting region. So, 61 years ago, started a storyin Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 12 1961 The story continued: The possibility of this has been realised for many years, …

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The Q3 PC market took its biggest fall in over 20 years – 19.5% y-o-y, says Gartner, with 68 million PCs sold in the quarter representing the fourth consecutive quarter of y-o-y decline. The top three vendors remained unchanged, with Lenovo maintaining the No. 1 spot in units with 25.2% market share (see Table 1). Table …

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