It’s a long time since there was any significant innovation in the PC and disaggregation seems to be the way it will go, Ed confides to his diary. Display will …

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The Science Museum unveils a reworking of its Space gallery, with new exhibits and a new location in the historic Kensington location. Get a flavour of what is certainly a worthwhile visit for anyone remotely interested in Space.

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Parker has introduced a thermal gel for rugged vertically-oriented applications. This single-component material “passed automotive vertical slump testing”, according to the company. “The fully cured product performs reliably in vertical …

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Raspberry Pi has introduced a board which squeezes a 2230 M.2 PCI Express card slot alongside the fan in a Raspberry Pi 5 case – as well as the Raspberry …

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Siemens Digital Industries Software today introduced Tessent AnalogTest software – an innovative solution that reduces pattern generation time for analogue circuit tests from months to days. The solution enables testing …

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TrendForce forecasts that Vietnam’s share of global notebook production will rise rapidly to 13.5% in 2025. And Apple’s large-scale investments in Vietnam have catalysed the formation of a supply chain …

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Nvidia has signed a letter of intent with UK self-driving car startup Wayve Technologies to look at the potential of a $500 million investment in the company. Nvidia and Wayve …

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VodafoneThree is to spend £2 billion to upgrade its UK network with all the work going to Ericsson and Nokia and nothing to O-RAN vendors. When Vodafone bought Three in …

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15 years ago the politicians were as flip-floppy about satellite internet as they are now Back in 2010 Max Gutberlet of Hughes Europe described the issues: In looking at the …

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Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports the now() and uuid() functions in SELECT clauses, expanding their functionality beyond the previously supported WHERE, INSERT, and UPDATE clauses, as well as the Duration data type. These improvements provide greater compatibility with Apache Cassandra, making it easier to work with time-based operations and unique identifiers in your applications.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service. Amazon Keyspaces is serverless, so you pay for only the resources that you use and you can build applications that serve thousands of requests per second with virtually unlimited throughput and storage.

With the now() function, you can now generate current timestamps directly in your SELECT statements, making it easier to track when data was retrieved or to perform time-based calculations within your queries. Similarly, the uuid() function allows you to generate unique identifiers within SELECT statements, which is particularly useful for creating reference values or temporary identifiers during data retrieval operations. The new Duration data type represents time elapsed between two timestamps, supporting use cases like tracking task completion times or code execution intervals. This eliminates the need to store time intervals as strings or bytes, removing the burden of manual parsing from your applications.

The now(), uuid(), and Duration data type enhancements are available today in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon Keyspaces is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Keyspaces CQL documentation .