Technology

Amazon EFS file systems now support up to 1.5 GiB/s of throughput per client, a 3x increase over the previous limit of 500 MiB/s. With this launch, you now have a simpler way to run throughput-intensive file workloads on AWS. [...]

Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple for data engineers and data scientists to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. An EMR Serverless application uses workers to execute workloads, allowing users to configure ephemeral storage [...]

Academic Ethan Zuckerman is suing Meta to win protections for add-ons that help researchers study the platform and give users more control over their feeds. [...]

The Biden administration is asking tech companies to sign a pledge, obtained by WIRED, to improve their digital security, including reduced default password use and improved vulnerability disclosures. [...]

Coconu’s vibrator is approachable, affordable, and surprisingly intuitive. [...]

From hair tools and iPads to board games and bike bags, we have a pick for every type of mom and mom figure. [...]

Move over MoonSwatch—in a collaboration with Kith, TAG is reissuing 10 pimped versions of its classic plastic sports watch. And, yes, they will be available online (if you're fast enough). [...]

This sub-$1,000 laptop dishes out great power with Intel’s Core Ultra 7 chip at the expense of build quality and decent speakers. [...]

When I rejoined the app and quickly got addicted, I realized it was exactly what I needed: not reality itself but the illusion of it. [...]

Millions of people relied on the federal Affordable Connectivity Program to stay online and access work, health care, and school. Now that the program has expired, some fear being cut off. [...]

AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to automate deployment of SAP Web Dispatcher. This launch expands on existing Launch Wizard capabilities that allow you to automate deployment of SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver based applications on HANA and ASE databases, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA foundations using APIs or a [...]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of RubyGems support in CodeArtifact. Gems, which are used to distribute Ruby libraries, can now be stored in CodeArtifact. [...]

We are excited to announce AWS HealthOmics private workflows now support file systems that dynamically scale with your workflow. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that empowers healthcare and life science organizations to store, query, analyze omics data to generate insights to improve health and drive scientific discoveries. With [...]

If you've wanted to join the Google Pixel ecosystem, you're in luck. Google's A-Series phone is on sale alongside the Pixel Watch 2. [...]

Amazon Location Service has released a Places plugin for MapLibre GL JS Geocoder, simplifying the integration of Amazon Location Places Service with MapLibre. Along with the authentication libraries, this plugin provides a frictionless experience to use Amazon Location Places with MapLibre GL JS.  [...]

Amazon DynamoDB now supports an AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) action to pause replication for global tables. FIS is a fully managed service for running controlled fault injection experiments to improve an application’s performance, observability, and resilience. Global tables replicate your Amazon DynamoDB tables automatically across your choice of AWS [...]

We are excited to announce AWS HealthOmics now supports the ability to share HealthOmics workflows across AWS accounts. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that empowers healthcare and life science organizations to store, query, analyze omics data, and generate insights to improve health and drive scientific discoveries. With this [...]

We are excited to announce public availability of an enhanced dataset discovery workflow for AWS Mainframe Modernization File Transfer with BMC. This new capability makes it easier for users to discover and select mainframe data sets for conversion and transfer to AWS. Users can now browse the mainframe data set [...]

Today, Amazon Transcribe announces the general availability of generative AI-powered call summarization available through the Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics API. Generative call summarization delivers a concise summary of contact center interactions, capturing key components such as why the customer called, how the issue was addressed, and what follow-up actions were [...]

China's brain-computer interface technology is catching up to the US. But it envisions a very different use case: cognitive enhancement. [...]