You can now add tags to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) gateway endpoints , interface endpoints (AWS PrivateLink), and endpoint services (AWS PrivateLink). A tag is a simple label consisting of a customer-defined key and an optional value that can be used search, filter, and organize your VPC endpoints and endpoint services. You can also use tags to clearly organize the charges for the resources you utilize, as presented at Using Cost Allocation Tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management user guide.

Amazon DynamoDB transactions are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region. Transactions provide developers atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable (ACID) operations in DynamoDB so that they can maintain data correctness in applications more easily.

This Quick Start automatically deploys IBM InfoSphere DataStage into a new or existing virtual private cloud (VPC) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about 2 hours.

The Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) command line interface (CLI) now includes a sub-command for generating the authentication token required for connecting to their Kubernetes cluster using the command line.

An excellent video on designing control systems when there no accurate mathematical model of the system is available, has been highlighted by wise commenter of this parish Steve Kurt. Posted by Brian Douglas on YouTube, ‘A real control system – how to start designing‘ it starts very basically, and then steadily speeds up until the …

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It is the international year of the periodic table, and I have been made aware of a periodic table which indicates the relative plenty or scarcity on and in Earth by the size of the space the element is allotted. It apparently puts into perspective the indium shortage, which come from contflict regions, and other …

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My mind is slightly boggled, as I just saw a video of the European slot car racing finals, and I haven’t even got to the end formulating questions, let alone getting any answers. The question list starts: What motors are they running? How do they stick down at that speed? How do the operators have …

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My ears pricked up when I heard of a “biosynthetic dual-core cell computer“, also described as a “dual-core CPU“, that has been made using genetic engineering at Swiss university ETH Zurich. That is the language the university and team are using, however after scanning through the PNAS paper that describes the work: ‘A CRISPR/Cas9-based central processing unit to …

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Artificial intelligence is really doing stuff – for example, a company who I can’t mention, tried it alongside normal methods to flesh-out corner cases in a complex sensor product, and it got a better answer quicker. Now the US Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has used deep learning to forecast sudden disruptions that can halt …

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For those keen to use an FPGA to do something, but only with easy-to-use and affordable hardware, there is the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 – combining an Intel/Altera MAX10 FPGA with a Arm Cortex-M0+ (in a SAMD21) and a U-blox Nina W102-00B Wi-Fi module. And now I know there are also board from TinyFPGA in the …

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