Amazon Connect Chat now provides new APIs that allow you to create customized experiences for your customers by enabling you to subscribe to a real-time stream of chat messages. Using the new APIs, you can integrate Amazon Connect Chat with SMS solutions and third party messaging applications (e.g., Facebook Messenger, Twitter), enable mobile push notifications, and create analytics dashboards to monitor and track chat message activity. Messages are published via Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and can be set up in a couple of clicks by going to the Amazon SNS console and creating a new SNS topic.

You can now share your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)  with AWS Organizations and Organizational Units (OUs) . Previously, you could share AMIs only with specific AWS account IDs. To share AMIs with AWS Organizations, you had to explicitly manage sharing of AMIs with AWS accounts that were added to or removed from AWS Organizations. With this new feature, you no longer have to update your AMI permissions because of organizational changes. AMI sharing will be automatically synced when organizational changes occur. This feature helps you centrally manage and govern your AMIs as you grow and scale your AWS accounts.

Amazon Lightsail now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to utilize CloudFormation templates to provision and manage your application stacks comprised of Lightsail instances, disks or databases. You can also easily automate and replicate your stacks as needed. This adds a new convenient way of managing Lightsail resources in addition to the Lightsail Console and AWS CLI/SDK.

  Earlier this week Sudan’s military attempted a coup overnight, leading to the arrest of  PM Abdalla Hamdok and senior politicians and the declaring of a state of emergency. It was Sudan’s 35th attempted coup. Hamdok, himself gained power in a coup two years ago. Research from the Center for Systemic Peace (CSP) and Statista …

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The UK Space Agency has announced its commitment to a number of projects or initiatives designed to help tackle the issue of space debris. The three sets of projects to receive its backing address the issue of sustainable space operations and the problems caused by defunct and colliding satellites in orbit. Junk First, the space …

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Globalfoundries IPO’d on  the Nasdaq yesterday, raising $2.6 billion. Its shares begin trading today under the symbol GFS. GloFo and main shareholder Mubadala sold 55 million shares for $47 each – which was at the top of the offered range. Mubadala will control more than 89% of the company’s shares after the IPO. GloFo had …

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Intel reached out to its developers yesterday at the outset of its two day  Innovation 2021 series of presentations. As part of its ‘developer first’ approach, CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a unified Developer Zone, new oneAPI 2022 toolkits and new oneAPI Centers of Excellence designed to better enable developers to access reference designs, toolkits and …

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As expected, the EU has decided to subject Nvidia’s bid for Arm to a prolonged investigation. ‘The EU has opened an in-depth investigation to assess the proposed acquisition of Arm by NVIDIA under the EU Merger Regulation,” says the Commission, “the Commission is concerned that the merged entity would have the ability and incentive to …

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Improving production efficiency is undoubtedly a goal of any company working in the electronics industry. However, the current unpredictable economic environment creates challenges that businesses are struggling to navigate on their own. As a result, they need to work with reliable partners to ensure production efficiency. Xometry, the world’s largest on-demand manufacturing marketplace, is one …

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Raspberry Pi has used system-in-package technology to boost processing power in its tiny Zero with a quad-core processor. Not to be confused with the similar-looking Compute Modules, the Zero is a full computer with an HDMI connector on-board. “Where our larger products have grown steadily more powerful over the years, we’ve never found a way …

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