More than twenty European space companies have formed a consortium in response to a call for tenders from the European Commission. The call was entitled “New Space solutions for long-term availability of reliable, secure, cost-effective space based connectivity” and it is looking for “disruptive ideas to contribute to the definition of the system architecture of …

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Cambridge Quantum (CQ) says that the latest version of TKET (pronounced “ticket”), its hardware-agnostic quantum SDK is now fully open-source. This will permit more transparency of the code, easier reporting of issues and more robust integrations. The quantum software community will be able to make their own contributions and develop their own extensions to the codebase under the permissive Apache 2.0 …

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After a surge in semiconductor M&A announcements in the second half of 2020, the strong M&A momentum carried into the beginning of 2021, with purchase agreements for chip companies, business units, product lines, and related assets reaching a total value of $15.8 billion in 1Q21, setting a record-high level for the first quarter of a …

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Pre-silicon security verification during the chip design stage can avoid time-consuming analysis and correction of security vulnerabilities for a manufactured device. It can also avoid potential re-spins and production delays, says FortifyIQ. The company has developed two software suites  which simulate some of the ‘popular’ methods of cyberattack. SideChannel Studio simulates side-channel attacks whereby cyber criminals measure …

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iWave has launched a single board computer based on NXP i.MX 8M Mini applications processor in a PICO-ITX form factor. Called iW-RainboW-G34S, it supports Linux 5.4.70, Ubuntu 20.04, Buildroot 2021.02 and Android 11. It is designed for multimedia processing with low power in embedded consumer and industrial applications. Arm Cortex-A53 cores up to 1.6GHz are …

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You can now view your AWS resources such as Instances, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Volumes across AWS Regions. Previously, finding specific resources, monitoring for their status or taking inventory in the console was manual and time consuming. You had to know which region a particular instance resided in, or had to manually switch across multiple different regions to look for it. Global View provides visibility to all your resources in a single pane of glass across AWS regions. It helps monitor resource counts, notice abnormalities sooner rather than later, and find stray resources.

AWS Device Farm’s Desktop Browser Testing feature lets you test your web applications on different versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer browsers. With today’s launch, we are adding support for the Microsoft Edge browser.

Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Query Editor V2, users can explore, analyze, and collaborate on data. It reduces the operational costs of managing query tools by providing a web-based application that allows you to focus on exploring your data without managing your infrastructure.

With Amazon Redshift federated query capability, many customers have been able to combine live data from operational databases with the data in Amazon Redshift data warehouse and the data in Amazon S3 data lake environment in order to get unified analytics view across all the data in the enterprise. Now Amazon Redshift federated query support is generally available for Amazon Aurora MySQL and Amazon RDS for MySQL databases in addition to the existing Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases.

AWS App Mesh is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy 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.