Amazon Redshift Spectrum is now available in two additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and South America (Sao Paulo).

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaTailor supports the Video Player-Ad Interface Definition (VPAID) standard. VPAID allows video publishers to serve highly interactive video ads and collect viewing metrics from their monetized streams. You can now use AWS Elemental MediaTailor to serve a combination of server-side stitched linear ads, using the VAST standard, and client-side inserted interactive ads, using the VPAID standard, in the same stream.

Today we’re announcing that the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) provides customers with more assurance around the secure use and management of their keys. Customers now get assurance that keys are created and used by hardware security modules (HSMs) in KMS that meet Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 140-2 requirements. Customers can also choose to make requests of KMS using API endpoints that terminate TLS sessions using a FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic software module.

Amazon SageMaker now includes support for ml.p3.2xlarge instances for data exploration and pre-processing in your Jupyter notebooks. Amazon SageMaker ml.p3.2xlarge instances are powered by an NVIDIA Volta GPU, which delivers up to 125 trillion single-precision floating-point operations per second, to enable you to execute faster in-notebook training.  

You can now use Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. NAT Gateway is a highly available AWS managed service that makes it easy to connect to the Internet from instances within a private subnet in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Previously, you needed to launch a NAT instance to enable NAT for instances in a private subnet. 

The PM is becoming positively Churchillian, Ed tells his diary, the way she’s standing up to Putin makes the Continentals look timid. We lead Europe in containing  the Russkies, not the Brussels bureaucrats, not the Germans and not the French. And, strange as it may seem, some of the Continentals are admiring us for it. …

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Paul Jacobs (pictured), son of Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs, who stepped down as execurive chairman last week, will not be re-nominated to the Qualcomm board when it meets for the company’s AGM on March 23rd. Jacobs told the board that he was looking at taking Qualcomm private and had talked to various possible sources of …

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Buried in a Microchip press release were the following statements: ATmega4809 has been selected to be the on-board microcontroller of a next-generation Arduino board…. and later: “The adoption of the ATmega4809 in the next-generation Arduino board strengthens our partnership…” said Microchip v-p 8bit MCUs Steve Drehobl. Sadly, there are no other clues to what sort …

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The VL53L1X time-of-flight sensor from STMicroelectronics extends the detection range of ST’s FlightSense technology to four metres. FlightSense sensors directly measure distance to the object based on the time for emitted photons to be reflected, enabling accurate distance-ranging regardless of the object’s surface characteristics. Thev VL53L1X is suitable for mobile robotics for wall following, cliff …

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Molex subsidiary Sensorcon has introduced the CO Inspector, a portable meter that uses electrochemical sensor technology to detect and measure carbon monoxide, and alert fire, police and rescue personnel to dangerous levels. The popularity of petroleum-based building materials has escalated the risk of carbon monoxide exposure and poisoning in firefighting. Carbon monoxide levels should be …

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