Amazon Rekognition is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.

Amazon Aurora now provides an easy, cost-effective way to create database clones. Cloning is useful for a number of purposes including application development, testing, database updates, and running analytical queries, all without impacting the production environment.

Imec has demo-ed  scaled strained germanium p-channel Gate-All-Around (GAA) FETs with a sub-10nm diameter. High-mobility materials such as germanium and III-V have been considered as potential solutions for deeply scaled devices, due to their higher intrinsic carrier mobility. However, these materials have a larger permittivity and a smaller bandgap than silicon, making it more difficult …

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On Thursday, European roaming charges will come to an end. From June 15th, phone calls, texts and data downloads will cost the same as you pay in the UK whichever country of the EU you are in. The same applies vice versa – if you phone, text or transfer data from the UK to anyone …

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At the weekend German Chancellor Angela Merkel calked for regulation for cyberspace. Merkel envisages the same sort of regulation for digital affairs as we now have for banking under the Basel rules and for trade under the WTO. Cyber attacks on businesses and governments have the potential to be so destructive that he world needs …

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Imagination, BT and digital ID specialist Intercede have collaborated on a chip-based IoT security system. The ‘Trust Continuum’ shows how SoCs for home gateway routers can be architected to address the growing security and management challenges presented by the proliferation of IoT devices, services and technologies entering the home. The Trust Continuum focuses on architectural …

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The Tories lost the cyberspace battle in the general election, says social media agency We Are Social. Across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, Labour increased its following by 61% during the campaign, while the Tories following went up 6%, said the agency. There were reports that the Tories used the technique allegedly pioneered by Cambridge Analytica …

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Business confidence has slumped following last week’s General Election result, with a weakened minority Conservative government. The big concern is the uncertainty this has raised over the impending Brexit negotiations with the EU. Carolyn Fairbairn, CBI Director-General, writes in the Financial Times today: “With negotiations almost upon us, British business does not believe that we …

Read full article: Tech business fears for future political stability

Spectrum has introduced a 24 channel synchronised arbitrary waveform generator (AWGs), aiming at the development of parallel architecture electronic systems, such as MIMO, radar, quantum computing and multi-lane serial bus testing. “To develop these systems, and those with similar multi-receiver/emitter or multi-sensor technology, it is helpful to have the ability to generate multiple synchronised waveforms,” …

Read full article: 200MHz 16bit arbitrary waveform generator has 24 channels

The first interoperability test sessions for mission-critical LTE equipment will take place later this month at the ETSI headquarters in Sophia Antipolis, France. These are standard’s body ETSI’s first plugtests for Mission Critical Push to Talk (MCPTT) with equipment from different vendors. Push-to-Talk (PTT) is a standard feature of narrowband Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) technologies developed …

Read full article: ETSI tests LTE kit for mission-critical comms used by police