AWS Amplify Admin UI now allows generating seed data with Faker , and downloading data to a CSV file. This simplifies creating and managing your data in Amplify, and allows for more realistic demo data that is quickly shareable. 

You can now create secure continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that follow your organization’s best practices with a new pipeline configuration capability for serverless applications. AWS Serverless Application Model Pipelines (AWS SAM Pipelines) is a new feature of AWS SAM CLI that gives you access to benefits of CI/CD in minutes, such as accelerating deployment frequency, shortening lead time for changes, and reducing deployment errors. AWS SAM Pipelines comes with a set of default pipeline templates for popular CI/CD systems such as CloudBees CI/Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, and AWS CodeBuild/CodePipeline that follow AWS’ deployment best practices. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, locally test, package, and deploy serverless applications.

AWS DataSync now supports transferring data between Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS) and Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), or Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Using DataSync, you can quickly, easily, and securely migrate files and folders from HDFS on your Hadoop cluster to AWS Storage. You can also use DataSync to replicate data on your Hadoop cluster to AWS for business continuity, copy data to AWS to populate your data lakes, or transfer data between your cluster and AWS for analysis and processing.

AWS Lambda now allows you to create or update your functions with container images stored in an Amazon ECR repository  in a different AWS account than that of your AWS Lambda function. Previously, you could only access container images stored in an Amazon ECR repository in the same AWS account as your AWS Lambda functions. If you used a centralized account for your Amazon ECR repositories, you needed to copy your container images into an Amazon ECR repository in the same account as your Lambda function. You can now simplify this workflow by accessing the container image stored in an Amazon ECR repository in a different account. 

Amazon SageMaker Studio now enables customers to make test inference requests to endpoints with a custom URL and endpoints that require specific headers. Amazon SageMaker helps data scientists and developers to prepare, build, train, and deploy high-quality machine learning (ML) models quickly by bringing together a broad set of capabilities purpose-built for ML. Amazon SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps.

I certainly want to flag this on Gadget Master – Raspberry Pi have released an updated version of the Zero board: the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, to be precise.

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The cost of producing electricity from  renewablesources is decreasing according to Our World in Data In 2010, a megawatt hour of electricity gleaned from solar photovoltaic cost a global average $378 to generate. That’s without the effect of any subsidies which may have been applicable in some areas. By 2019, that cost had tumbled down …

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Bill Gates is one of very few world luminaries who can talk sensibly about climate change without getting emotional, hyperbolic or silly e.g. ‘one minute to midnight’. ’There’s no comparable feat that mankind has ever achieved to what we need to do for climate change,’ said Gates in a COP26 interview, ‘it’s all a matter …

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Laird Thermal Systems has launched an online simulation tool for PCR thermal cycling applications. Thermoelectric coolers designed for thermal cycling, such as the PowerCycling PCX Series, are used for Real-Time PCR to precisely temperature control DNA amplification to three temperature set points. Assembled with next generation thermoelectric material, the PCX Series provides faster ramp rates …

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Tower Semiconductor and Anello Photonics, the developer of the Silicon Photonic Optical Gyroscope (SiPhOGTM), today announced a strategic  partnership  for  a new low-loss  Silicon Optical Waveguide technology and manufacturing process. The foundry version of the process will enable adoption in a wide range of markets such as including automotive LiDAR, bio-sensing, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, microwave …

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