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Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes

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We are excited to announce the availability of smaller sized Amazon EC2 G4ad instances that deliver up to 40% better price performance over comparable GPU-based instances for graphics intensive applications such as virtual workstations and game streaming. Like the other G4ad instances, these new sizes are powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and second-generation AMD EPYC processors and are designed to be cost-effective for workloads that don’t need the high vCPU and system memory that current larger G4ad instance sizes offer providing the lowest cost GPU instance in the AWS Cloud.

Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels makes it easy for customers to learn how to train machine learning models by providing tutorial videos, and sample datasets

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Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels introduces a simplified on-boarding experience with the ability to explore images, labels, and datasets by one-click creation of example projects. Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels provides out of the box video tutorials, and example projects with hundreds of images for single-class classification, multi-class classification, object detection, and logo detection.

The first good folding 3D printer I have seen

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Lots of people have attempted to design and build fold-up 3d printers, many of which turn out quite compromised. Now I have seen the first that looks properly competent, and erects into something that prints well – I am guessing at least as well as ~£500 printers. It is a one-off by Kralyn3D, called the Positron, …

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Arm M&A Nonsense

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A lot of nonsense is being talked about the Nvidia bid for Arm. It revolves around whether an IPO would be better for Arm than being bought by Nvidia. Everyone involved seems to agree that Arm’s open licensing model, with all customers being treated equally, should be preserved. Which of the two options of either …

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£1.5m for UK silicon anode li-ion project

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Innovate UK has approved funding for the £1.5m ‘Silicon anode battery for rapid electrification’ (Sabre) project, intended to improve energy density in electric vehicle grade lithium ion batteries. The money, via Faraday Battery Challenge at UK Research and Innovation, will go to Nexeon, Britishvolt and University College London (UCL) to deliver Li-ion test cells with a silicon …

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Made-up BNC cables from Amphenol

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Amphenol RF is aiming at test, measurement and industrial applications with a line of BNC cable assemblies using low-loss Times LMR‐UF cable. LMR cable is designed with improved shielding compared to standard RF coaxial cables and is intended to achieve low attenuation at high frequencies – bandwidth is up to 3GHz. The 50Ω ohm assemblies are …

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2MW Orkney tidal turbine hooks into the grid

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Orbital Marine Power’s O2 has begun feeding power into the national grid from the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney. The floating turbine, claimed by Orbital to be the worlds largest, has been fabricated using ship-building technology in Dundee, and is anchored in the Fall of Warness. 74m long O2 is Orbital’s first commercial turbine, …

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