At Google I/O the first beta version was released, and now Android P Beta 2 is being released (available if you have a Pixel device).

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Adding analogue processing to digital hardware is the key to adaptability and maximum battery life in the nano-scale age, according to the University of Southampton, which is advocating memristors and charge-based processing as the way to do it. Memristors are non-volatile electrically-adjustable resistors. Made from metal oxides, they scale well and are proposed as memory …

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The latest powerline-communication-based lighting deployment by enModus looks like a small one but shows that wireless is not the only way to avoid expensive retrofit costs.

Oracle Patch Set Updates contain critical security updates and other important updates. The April 2018 PSUs are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle. To learn more about the Oracle PSUs supported on Amazon RDS, visit the Amazon RDS patch update documentation . 

Today, AWS Shield Advanced announced a new onboarding wizard to help you set up your resources for protection and enable faster DDoS incident response by providing emergency contacts and giving the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) IAM permissions.

You can now COPY Apache Parquet and Apache ORC file formats from Amazon S3 to your Amazon Redshift cluster. Apache Parquet and ORC are columnar data formats that allow users to store their data more efficiently and cost-effectively. With this update, Redshift now supports COPY from six file formats: AVRO, CSV, JSON, Parquet, ORC and TXT. 

Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries you run. You can now create Views and run queries against those Views. Views simplify how you query data by abstracting away the underlying tables and columns. Views are not materialized and the query that defines the View is run every time the View is referenced. Click here to learn more about Views.

Application Load Balancers now support two new security policies: ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-2018-06 and ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-Ext-2018-06.

ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-2018-06 implements ciphers that ensure Forward Secrecy. Customers now have a policy that prevents out-of-band decryption if someone records the traffic and later compromises the server’s private key.

ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-Ext-2018-06 gives customers the option of only using the latest TLS 1.2 protocol with the same set of ciphers as available with default ELBSecurityPolicy-2016-08. With cipher parity, this new policy also provides an easy migration path to TLS 1.2-only from TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.0.

ELBSecurityPolicy-FS-2018-06 and ELBSecurityPolicy-TLS-1-2-Ext-2018-06 are available today for all existing and new Application Load Balancers in all AWS public regions. You can get started using the AWS Management Console , AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) , or AWS SDK . To learn more, see HTTPS Listeners for Your Application Load Balancer .

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Ubuntu and Amazon Linux  now come pre-installed and fully configured with Horovod, a popular open source distributed training framework to scale TensorFlow training on multiple GPUs.