Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the Canada (Central) Region. With availability in eleven AWS Regions, WorkSpaces lets you deploy cloud-based desktops close to your users and data while also meeting local regulatory requirements, all without the cost and complexity of building on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

We have increased the maximum row size allowed in Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics applications from 50KB to 512KB, so you can process and analyze streams with hundreds of columns. We have also increased the maximum code size of Kinesis Data Analytics applications from 50KB to 100KB, allowing several hundreds of SQL statements in an application.

Amazon EC2 Fleet is a new feature that simplifies the provisioning of Amazon EC2 capacity across different Amazon EC2 instance types, Availability Zones and across On-Demand, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) and Amazon EC2 Spot purchase models. With a single API call, now you can provision capacity across EC2 instance types and across purchase models to achieve desired scale, performance and cost. 

The Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client is a software library that helps you to protect your table data before you send it to Amazon DynamoDB . Encrypting your sensitive data in transit and at rest helps assure that your plaintext data isn’t available to any third party, including AWS.

This updated Quick Start automatically deploys Tableau Server in a standalone or cluster environment on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. With this update, you can deploy on either Linux or Microsoft Windows Server.

AWS Service Catalog , used by enterprises, system integrators, and managed service providers to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS, now allows administrators, via the console, to copy products across AWS Service Catalog supported AWS regions . This makes it easier for administrators to manage products across their enterprise.

Vayyar’s RF sensors  consolidate 72 transmitters and 72 receivers for longer range and a higher quality image. The  sensors can see through materials, differentiate between objects and people, and map large areas in real-time. Their capabilities include: Monitoring breathing and vital signs Securing homes and provide intruder alerts Quantifying composition of different liquids Working in …

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Raspberry Pi and element14  have announced the winners of its “Pi Chef” Design Challenge. The challenge was to use  the Raspberry Pi development board as the main ingredient to advance the world of food through kitchen safety, food sustainability, or the creation of new preparation methods. Judges selected Grand Prize, Runner Up, and 3rd Prize winners …

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Cambridge Analytica, the firm which appropriated the Facebook data of 87 million people and is said to have influenced the 2016 US election, has filed to go into administration. The company has issued this statement: ‘Earlier today, SCL Elections Ltd., as well as certain of its and Cambridge Analytica LLC’s U.K. affiliates (collectively, the “Company” …

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Infineon had calendar Q1 revenue of €1,836 million for a profit of  €314 million. For calendar Q2,it expects revenue growth of about 4 to 7% with a profit likely to be over €1 billion due to the sale of the RF power The company expects to manke investments of about € 1.2 billion in the current …

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