You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to specify Amazon Pinpoint resources. This improvement enables you to use CloudFormation to deploy Amazon Pinpoint resources—along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. You can use CloudFormation templates to specify Amazon Pinpoint projects, segments, campaigns, and communication channels.

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region.

Host Recovery for Amazon EC2 automatically restarts your instances on a new host in the event of an unexpected hardware failure on a Dedicated Host. Host Recovery reduces the need for manual intervention, minimizing time for recovery and lowering operational burden for instances running on Dedicated Hosts. Additionally, built-in integration with AWS License Manager automates the tracking and management of your licenses in the event of recovery.

There are no additional EC2 charges for using Host Recovery. Standard Dedicated Host charges apply. See Dedicated Host Pricing page for more information. Host Recovery is now generally available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), EU (London), South America (São Paulo), China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) regions. To learn more and to get started, please visit the Host Recovery documentation . 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 X1 and X1e instances are available in additional AWS regions:

• X1 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS region.
• X1e instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and US East (Ohio) AWS regions.

Reporting an “abrupt halt” to the run of 12 consecutive periods of bookings growth, measured on a quarter on same quarter, the previous year, the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn) reveals “disappointing” Q1 2019 results. While bookings increased by 4.2% in Q1 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, billings suffered a 1.3% decline. …

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Antenova has added an ultra-compact dual-band Wi-Fi antenna to its range, measuring 1.0 x 0.5 x 0.5mm. Named Minuta and numbered SRC2W006, it operates over 2.4-2.5GHz and 4.9-5.9GHZ, and works with Wi-Fi 802.11a/h/j/n/p/ac standards. Average efficiency is ~60% according to the firm. “It offers designers some useful flexibility in the layout of a PCB, as it …

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Thanks to CB Insights for this one – the eleven most suspicious entries on a CV: No upward career progression at a single firm Too many lateral moves across companies Job-hopping Multiple concurrent roles (1 main job and lots of side hustles) Lists Microsoft Office Suite as a skill Cr^ppy formatting Spelling mistakes Inflated claims …

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ST is sampling STM32H7 MCUs which claim to be the industry’s highest-performing Arm Cortex-M general-purpose MCUs. The new devices leverage a 480MHz version of the Cortex-M7, the highest performing member of Arm’s Cortex-M family, and add a 240MHz Cortex-M4 core. With an efficient L1 cache, and adaptive real-time ART Accelerator, the MCUs claim speed records at …

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Thalia Design Automation has completed a $2m  funding round led by Deepbridge Capital and with renewed commitment from the company’s existing investor Development Bank of Wales. This latest round of funding will enable accelerated development of Thalia’s Re-use Platform-as-a-Service (RePaaS) solutions for analog IP re-use, design migration and portfolio extension, and aggressive expansion of both commercial …

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Technical University of Munich (TUM) spin-off kiutra has developed a magnetic cooling system for extremely low temperatures. kiutra clsims to be the first company in the world to have succeeded in developing a permanent magnetic cooling system to reach temperatures close to absolute zero. Such temperatures are, for example, required for the operation of quantum computers. …

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