We’re excited to announce the availability of Lumberyard Beta 1.13. With over 220 improvements, fixes, and new features, this release helps game teams create cloud-connected games with less engineering resources. Some highlights include:

The AWS Quick Start team and solutions architects, in collaboration with AWS partners, are pleased to announce three new Amazon Connect integrations: 

AWS CloudTrail makes it easier to search CloudTrail log files using the power of Amazon Athena. Previously, you had to manually create a CloudTrail table using the Athena console or AWS CLI and ensure you had the proper configuration and data definitions to match the CloudTrail log format. Now, from within the CloudTrail console event history page, you simply enter the Amazon S3 bucket where your CloudTrail logs are stored, and CloudTrail will automatically create the Athena table for you. Once the table is created, you’ll be able to jump directly to the Athena console query editor and immediately begin running queries.

Thanks to the International Federation of Robotics for this one – the countries with the most robots per 10k employees: South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Denmark, USA, Italy, Belgium Taiwan.

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TowerJazz has opened a Silicon Photonics (SiPho) commercial foundry process. The process  targets optical networking and data center interconnect applications. TowerJazz’s “open” platform is offered to all SiPho customers unlike other “closed” processes only offered to certain customers or restricted to low-volume prototyping. TowerJazz’s SiPho process complements its SiGe BiCMOS processes which are currently qualified …

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Toshiba has  launched  two high speed signal transmission photorelays that offer the industry’s smallest footprint. The TLP3475S features low on-state output resistance (RON) – typically 1.1Ω and offers fast switching times of 0.5ms (ton) and 0.4ms (toff). The device is rated for 60V (VOFF) and a max. current of 0.4A (ION). The device is housed …

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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is the highest performance Raspberry Pi yet

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Smartphone AP units will grow 1.5% this year to 1.67 billion units in 2018, says Digitimes Research. The slowing growth in the smartphone market means global smartphone AP shipments will grow slowly in the next few years, reaching 1.77 billion units in 2021. Qualcomm remains No.1 with MediaTek No.2, In-house-developed chips by Apple, Samsung and …

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A new method of creating bendable silicon chips could help pave the way for a new generation of high-performance flexible electronic devices, say Glasgow University researchers. The researchers have described how they scaled up the established processes for making flexible silicon chips to the size required for delivering high-performance bendable systems in the future, and …

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We’ve seen prototypes from Ehang, BAe, Bosch, the SureFly Velocopter and now it’s Cora. So much activity means it’s bound to happen. Right? These are all, of course, flying taxis. Or will be flying taxis if they get off the ground – in the commercial sense rather than the literal sense. We all know they …

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