Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze images and videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content. Label Detection makes it easy for customers to detect thousands of objects, scenes, actions, or concepts found in an image or video based on its contents. For example, a photo taken during a tropical beach holiday may contain labels such as ‘Palm Tree’ (object), ‘Beach’ (scene), ‘Running’ (action), and ‘Outdoors’ (concept). In addition, Amazon Rekognition provides bounding boxes for common objects such as cars, furniture, apparel, or pets. Starting today, customers can view the complete list of labels and object bounding boxes supported by Amazon Rekognition, to quickly identify those that are relevant to their applications and use cases.

You can now update the maintenance window start time for your Amazon MQ brokers. Every Amazon MQ broker has a weekly 2 hour maintenance window during which changes are applied. These changes can include broker version updates, configuration changes, or patching of the operating system and other system software. The maintenance window gives you control over when these changes occur, in the event either are requested or required. You can minimize downtime during maintenance by using Multi-AZ brokers. The maintenance window start time can be changed using the console, CLI, or API.

Amazon Athena has updated its integration with Apache Hudi to support new features and the latest 0.8.0 community release. Hudi is an open-source data management framework used to simplify incremental data processing in S3 data lakes. The updated integration enables you to use Athena to query Hudi 0.8.0 tables managed via Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, Apache Hive or other compatible services and includes new support for snapshot queries and reading bootstrapped tables.

There was once a company founded by a bunch of chip designers who resigned to work for a UK chip company from which they were lured away by an offer to set them up in their own company. For a while their designs dominated the markets they served and the company grew to a significant …

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To return or not to return to the office – that is the question for H2. Some bosses want people back, some people don’t want to go back, some bosses and people support hybrid working. Apple bosses are requiring employees to attend the office three days a week but some Apple-ites, grown accustomed to remote working, …

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Northrop Grumman has finalised its contract with NASA to provide the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module for NASA’s Gateway, the next-generation replacement for the International Space Station. Under the terms of the $935 million contract, Northrop Grumman will complete the design and development activity currently underway and will also be responsible for integrating HALO …

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Researchers at Skoltech of Russia, MIT and Nanyang Technological University of Singapore have created a neural network that can help tweak semiconductor crystals in a controlled fashion to achieve superior properties for electronics. This enables a new direction of development of next-generation chips and solar cells by exploiting a controllable deformation that may change the properties of a material on …

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Contract prices of NAND Flash  will rise marginally for 3Q21, with QoQ increases in the range of 5-10%, reports TrendForce. 128-layer NAND is becoming the mainstream offering. Average contract prices of enterprise SSDs are expected to increase by 15% QoQ. Contract prices of eMMC products are projected to rise by 0-5% as low-density eMMC prices …

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Xilinx has introduced the Versal HBM  adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), the newest series in the Versal  portfolio. The Versal HBM series enables the convergence of fast memory, secure connectivity, and adaptable compute in a single platform. Versal HBM ACAPs integrate the most advanced HBM2e DRAM, providing 820GB/s of throughput and 32GB of capacity for …

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Woven Plant, the automated driving unit of Toyota, has bought the spatial AI specialist Carmera. The move follows Woven Planet’s April acquisition of the automated driving subsidiary of Lyft. Carmera will report into Woven Planet’s Automated Mapping Platform (AMP)  which is a software platform that supports the creation, development and distribution of HD maps—a key …

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