Today, we announced the general availability of Amazon Genomics CLI, an open-source tool for genomics and life science customers to process genomics data at petabyte scale on AWS.

Amazon Connect Voice ID is a Machine Learning (ML) powered voice authentication feature for Amazon Connect that makes voice interactions in contact centers more secure and efficient. Historically, contact centers have used a time-consuming knowledge-based authentication process where callers have to answer multiple questions based on personal details, such as social security number or date of birth. Amazon Connect Voice ID analyzes caller’s unique voice characteristics using machine learning to verify identity in real-time without changing the natural flow of conversation. This helps improve agent productivity and contact center operating costs. Amazon Connect Voice ID also detects fraudsters in real-time from a custom watch-list for a contact center instance, improving security of contact center operations.

Elastic Load Balancing now supports forwarding traffic directly from Network Load Balancer (NLB) to Application Load Balancer (ALB). With this feature, you can now use AWS PrivateLink and expose static IP addresses for applications built on ALB.

Following the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft SQL Server  for Amazon EC2, you can now easily deploy RHEL SQL Server Always On availability groups using AWS Launch Wizard.

The EU has handed us a golden egg on a platter, Ed confides to his diary, the silly sods are trying to make it impossible for Apple to sell iPhones with Lightning sockets  in Europe. For Europe, Apple is a bete noir – they beat the Continentals at their own rigged game by winning a …

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Learn now how to provide the best ESD protection for automotive A/V interfaces

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Welcome to another in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 20 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. This post considers FIBERFOX 2CH cable, from Neutrik. Neutrik have launched their Fiberfox 2CH connectors onto the market increasing the choice of available Expanded Beam Connectors. Expanded Beam …

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For blokes who like scent, there’s a bottle from Paco Rabanne with an ST NFC chip implanted in the screw-top. It is being marketed as ‘the first connected scent’ – a new low in the Internet of Bollox. When you put your phone within range of the chip, your phone will be admitted to a …

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