Today, Amazon Personalize is excited to announce the Trending-Now recommender for Video-on-Demand domain to highlight catalogue items that are gaining popularity at the fastest pace. Amazon Personalize is a fully managed machine learning service that makes it easy for customers to deliver personalized experiences to their users. Recommenders help reduce the time needed for you to deliver and manage these personalized experiences, and help ensure that recommendations are relevant to your users. User interests can change based on a variety of factors, such as external events or the interests of other users. It is critical to tailor recommendations to these changing interests to improve user engagement. With Trending-Now, you can surface items from your catalogue that are rising in popularity faster than other items, such as a newly released movie or show. Amazon Personalize looks for items that are rising in popularity at a faster rate than other catalogue items and highlights them to users to provide an engaging experience. Amazon Personalize automatically identifies trending items every 2 hours based on the most recent interactions data from your users.

Amazon Chime SDK announces the release of concatenation that helps makes it easy to create a single file by concatenating media chunks including audio, video, content, and transcriptions created by Amazon Chime SDK media capture. Amazon Chime SDK enables multi-party video sessions by letting developers add real-time voice and video to their web and mobile apps. With concatenation, customers can create a single file from a multi-party video session that includes audio, individual or composited video, content, and transcriptions.

AWS App Mesh is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Regions. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easier for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and options to tune for high-availability of your applications.

Amazon DynamoDB now makes it easier for you to migrate and load data into new DynamoDB tables by supporting bulk data imports from Amazon S3. Now, you can import data directly into new tables to help you migrate data from other systems, load test data to help you build new applications, facilitate data sharing between tables and accounts, and simplify your disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

You can now enable CloudWatch Contributor Insights on your AWS PrivateLink-powered VPC Endpoint Services. AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed private connectivity service that enables customers to access AWS services, third-party services or internal enterprise services hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable manner while keeping network traffic private. CloudWatch Contributor Insights analyzes time-series data to report the top contributors and number of unique contributors in a dataset.

AWS Cost Categories now support the categorization of Out-of-Cycle costs such as AWS Enterprise Support and AWS Proserve charges. Previously, cost categories bundled all Out of Cycle costs into the “Default value” grouping. With this launch, you can use cost categories dimensions to capture and categorize Out-of-Cycle costs.

For David Manners, it was a potentially catastrophic threat to Philips, which has seen the CEO Frans van Houten decide to step down in October.

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If you think some of today’s tech products are potty, reflect on the fact that it was ever so. 80 years ago, a Taunton engineer came up with a new method of transport. Here it is: It had a two-cylinder air-cooled Douglas  engine with a three speed gear box with a top speed of 30mph. It …

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AMT’s Polym Touch is a polymer composite material placed over the top of a projected capacitive (p-cap) touchscreen to protect the substrate against impact. It is available through Review Display Systems (RDS). Thick glass cover lenses are specified in applications where health and safety regulations require the food industry as well as public information terminals …

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Würth Elektronik has added devices with continuous short-circuit protection to its MagI3C-FISM family of 1W or 2W isolated un-regulated dc-dc converters. “The entire product line is certified to the current UL standard UL62368-1, but the new modules offer even more safety. They cannot be destroyed by short circuits and can withstand their isolation voltage of …

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