Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon Managed Blockchain, which is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage scalable blockchain networks using the popular open source frameworks Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum. Hyperledger Fabric is available today. Ethereum is coming soon.

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) has increased the limits per account for certificate creation and certificate revocation. The limits on the lifetime total certificates generated and revoked by a single CA has been increased from 50,000 to 1,000,000. This applies to all regions for which ACM Private CA is available. This limit increase is intended for organizations doing large scale certificate deployment to IOT, endpoints, and devices.

You can now set the minimum capacity of your Aurora Serverless DB clusters to 1 Aurora Capacity Unit (ACU). With Aurora Serverless, you specify the minimum and maximum ACUs for your Aurora Serverless DB cluster instead of provisioning and managing database instances. Each ACU is a combination of processing and memory capacity. By setting the minimum capacity to 1 ACU, you can keep your Aurora Serverless DB cluster running at a lower cost.  

You can now use a single property setting in the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to control access using IAM permissions for all paths and methods of an Amazon API Gateway API. In addition, you can now configure custom responses for your APIs using simple AWS SAM syntax.  

AWS X-Ray now includes Analytics, an interactive approach to analyzing user request paths (i.e., traces). Analytics will allow you to easily understand how your application and its underlying services are performing. With X-Ray Analytics, you can quickly detect application issues, pinpoint the root cause of the issue, determine the severity of the issues, and identify which end users were impacted. 

How wonderful 3D printing is, I feel today. Why? Because, at last, my printed bike light is on a bicycle, and it is working. Even though I designed it, made it and know how it works, it still feels like the future slipped in without being noticed – a machine makes usable things. All the …

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USB4 is the latest addition to USB Connectivity and it is coming to a device near you very soon, writes Nick Locke.

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Following its exit from the 5G modem market, Intel’s ex-CFO, now CEO,  appears to be considering an exit from the NAND market. Asked why he continued to make NAND, Bob Swan replied in general terms about Intel’s three top criteria for pursuing markets. “First,” said Swan, “we look for technology inflections where we think we …

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I’ve seen robotic heavy metal before, but how about an AI version of Death Metal? Two musicians who are using AI to generate sounds are currently live streaming auto-generated Death Metal on YouTube.

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This was the headline, 58 years ago, on a piece by  the Soviet Correspondent in Electronics Weekly’s issue of January 25th 1961. The article starts: Information has become available in the last few weeks of a symposium held in Tashkent from May 10 to 20 1960 on auto-electronic emission. The conference was called by the …

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