Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) now offers a new console experience that makes it easier for you to create, modify and manage your DLM policies. The new console allows you to create policies and modify existing policies in a more streamlined manner and provides you more information and easier access to additional resources.

We are delighted to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Indian English. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to enable you to build applications with highly engaging user experiences and lifelike conversational interactions. With Indian English, you can deliver a robust and localized conversational experience that accurately understands Indian dialects. You can also respond to users with natural sounding Amazon Polly Indian voices to provide a fully localized conversational experience.

Forty-four new or updated datasets from the National Library of Medicine, Digital Earth Africa, Amazon, and others are available on the Registry of Open Data in the following categories.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and just-in-time packaging service that allows video distributors to securely and reliably deliver live streaming or on-demand content at scale. From a single video input, MediaPackage creates video streams formatted to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles. It makes it easy to implement popular video features commonly found on DVRs, such as start-over, pause, and rewind. The service can also protect your content using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies.

Today we are launching Simple File Manager for Amazon EFS into the AWS Solutions Implementations portfolio. Simple File Manager for Amazon EFS is a serverless solution that provides a user interface for managing data in your Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems. Deploying this solution allows you to seamlessly browse any EFS file system in your Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) account and upload, download, or delete data from virtually any device, without the need to setup or maintain any dedicated Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or networking infrastructure. As an example, you can use this solution to upload large machine learning (ML) model files to an Amazon EFS file system that is used by an AWS Lambda function for ML inference.

Amazon EC2 now provides customers the flexibility to specify weekly recurring time window(s) for Scheduled Events that reboot, stop or terminate EC2 instances. AWS schedules infrequent events, such as a reboot, stop, or termination, for EC2 instances when it detects irreparable failure of the underlying host or when it must perform tasks such as maintaining the underlying host. With the flexibility to specify event windows, customers can set up Scheduled Events for their EC2 instances to occur during off-peak periods. Customers can also align these time windows with their internal maintenance schedules. Software vendors can leverage this capability to customize time windows for scheduled events based on their customers’ preferences.

AWS IoT SiteWise has now launched AWS PrivateLink support for control plane APIs to manage AWS IoT SiteWise resources such as gateways, asset models, and assets. You can now securely create, update or delete your AWS IoT SiteWise resources without crossing the public Internet and without using public IP addresses. For more information, please visit the updated AWS IoT SiteWise and interface VPC endpoints page in our developer guide.

Is Elon Musk starting another social trend? A month or so ago he said he liked Bitcoin and the price soared. Then he said he didn’t and it fell. So a lot of people must see Elon as God Almighty though he calls himself, modestly, merely a King. Reportedly he’s flogged all his enormous houses …

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There are a bunch of low cost cnc engraving machines loosely called ‘3018’ as they cut material up to 30 x 18cm, and the same parts are used in two smaller sizes down to a 1610. They are not the stiffest machines, but lots of folk are making pcbs on them. Something that is missing …

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This one caught my eye. Maybe it was the glint of glass – it’s the Sony LSPX-S3 Glass sound speaker, which looks like an antique gas light or candle holder.

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