To help you find out what smartwatch or fitness tracker is right for you, we break down features and prices for our latest lineup of wearables. source https://blog.google/products/fitbit/google-fitbit-wearables-comparison/
Happy anniversary, Amazon CloudFront: 15 years of evolution and internet advancements
I can’t believe it’s been 15 years since Amazon CloudFront was launched! When Amazon S3 became available in 2006, developers loved the flexibility and started to build a new kind of globally distributed applications where storage was not a bottleneck. These applications needed to be performant, reliable, and cost-efficient for every user on the planet. So in 2008 a small team (a “two-pizza team“) launched CloudFront in just 200 days. Jeff Barr hinted at the new and yet unnamed service in September and introduced CloudFront two months later. Since the beginning, CloudFront has provided an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no long-term commitments. What started as a simple cache…
New – Long-Form voices for Amazon Polly
We are launching three new voices for Polly. Powered by a new long-form engine, the voices are natural and expressive, with appropriate pauses, emphasis, and tone. New Voices The new long-form voices are perfect for blog posts, news articles, training videos, and marketing content. The underlying Machine Learning model extracts meaning from the text, learning about speech segments, prosody (the pattern of rhythm and pauses), intonation, and other aspects of expressive speech, allowing the synthesized audio to express emotions, especially in dialogs. The new long-form engine uses a deep learning text-to-speech (TTS) model trained to acquire a contextual understanding of the text that allows it to express prosody in an appropriate way. This allows the intention of the story to…
Build AI apps with PartyRock and Amazon Bedrock
If you are ready to learn more about Generative AI while having fun and building cool stuff, check out PartyRock.aws . You can experiment, learn all about prompt engineering, build mini-apps, and share them with your friends — all without writing any code or creating an AWS account. You can also start with an app that has been shared with you and remix it to further enhance and customize it. Using PartyRock To get started, I visit https://partyrock.aws/ , click Sign in, and log in using my Apple, Amazon, or Google account: After authenticating, I am on the front page of PartyRock. I can review some sample apps, or I can click Build your own app to get started: I…