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Osmoses, an MIT spinout, has created polymer membranes designed to filter gases with high selectivity, reducing dependence on energy-intensive heat-based methods for chemical separations.
Researchers at MIT have developed and tested recycled plastic 3D-printed floor trusses that show potential as lighter, sustainable alternatives to traditional wood framing in construction.
An MIT research group created a routable dataset mapping all sidewalks, crosswalks, and footpaths in New York City, yielding the first detailed model of pedestrian foot traffic across a major U.S. city.
Amazon Web Services extended its WorkSpaces Secure Browser offering by enabling organizations to configure their secure browser portals with custom domains, enhancing user experience and branding integration.
AWS introduced Amazon ECS Managed Instances to its European Sovereign Cloud, providing a fully managed EC2 compute environment that simplifies infrastructure management and optimizes workload performance.
Amazon Bedrock enhanced its AgentCore Browser by adding browser profiles that allow reuse of authentication states across sessions, reducing login time for automated tasks.
AWS Config expanded its resource tracking capabilities by adding support for 30 additional AWS resource types, enhancing environment visibility and governance.
Amazon Elastic Container Registry introduced new CloudWatch metrics to help customers monitor growth trends and usage patterns of container repositories.
Amazon Connect Cases added support for CSV file uploads to streamline configuration of dependent field options in case templates, reducing manual setup effort.
AWS Network Firewall implemented pricing enhancements including discounts on NAT gateways used with secondary firewall endpoints and elimination of additional data processing fees for Advanced Inspection TLS traffic analysis.
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