Свежие новости и отзывы о Microsoft

When your game tops a hundred million players, your thoughts naturally turn to doubling that number. That's the case with the creators, or rather stewards, of Minecraft at Microsoft, where the game has become a product category unto itself. And now it is making its biggest leap yet — to a real-world augmented reality game in the vein of Pokemon GO, called Minecraft Earth.... →

Microsoft опубликовал исходный код одного из ключевых алгоритмов, используемых в работе поисковой системы Bing – Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG). Теперь он доступен на GitHub. Этот алгоритм использует векторный поиск и модели глубокого обучения для предоставления результатов, которые основаны на намерении пользователя. SPTAG был призван позволить пользователям совершать поиск среди миллиардов фрагментов информации, известных […] Сообщение Microsoft открыл исходный код одного из ключевых алгоритмов Bi... →

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For the last two decades, Sony and Microsoft's gaming divisions have been locked in all-out war against one another: on price, on hardware, on franchises, on exclusives... you name it. But it seems they've set their enmity aside temporarily that they might better prevent that filthy casual, Google, from joining the fray.... →

Microsoft has selected seven lucky startups to receive grants from its AI for Accessibility program. The growing companies aim to empower people with disabilities to take part in tech and the internet economy, from improving job searches to predicting seizures.... →

Forget all those whiskey brands from musicians and celebs — there’s A.I. whiskey now. Microsoft this week announced it has teamed up with Finnish tech company Fourkind and Sweden-based distillery Mackmyra Whisky to create the “world’s first whisky developed with artificial intelligence.” Oh no! Here’s how it will work. As part of the distillation process, […]... →

Microsoft today announced that it has open-sourced a key piece of what makes its Bing search services able to quickly return search results to its users. By making this technology open, the company hopes that developers will be able to build similar experiences for their users in other domains where users search through vast data […]... →

China’s Huawei is making a serious foray into the enterprise business market after it unveiled a new database management product on Wednesday, putting it in direct competition with entrenched vendors like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. The Shenzhen-based company, best known for making smartphones and telecom equipment, claims its newly minted database uses artificial intelligence capabilities […]... →

Big tech is stepping in to patch newly disclosed security flaws affecting almost every Intel chip since 2011. Researchers on Tuesday released details of the vulnerability, known as ZombieLoad — or microarchitectural data sampling as its technical name — which can leaked sensitive data stored in the processor, such as passwords, secret keys and account […]... →

LinkedIn, the social networking platform for the working world that’s now owned by Microsoft, has leveraged its role as a repository for people’s work profiles into making itself a job hunting and recruitment powerhouse. The company today has amassed more than 20 million job listings — up from a mere 300,000  five years ago — […]... →

Of the many categories in the tech world, none is more ferociously competitive than enterprise. For decades, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce, to name a few of the giants, have battled to deliver the tools businesses want to become more productive and competitive. That market is closing in on $500 billion in sales […]... →

Posted by briangormanhThe Schema.org vocabulary is the ultimate collab. Thanks to a mutual handshake between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Yandex, we have a library of fields we can use to highlight and more aptly define the information on web pages. By utilizing structured data, we provide search engines with more confidence (i.e. a better understanding of page content), as Alexis Sanders explains in this wonderful podcast. Doing so can have a number of positive effects, including eye-catching SERP displa... →

Microsoft's yearly Imagine Cup student startup competition crowned its latest winner today: EasyGlucose, a non-invasive, smartphone-based method for diabetics to test their blood glucose. It and the two other similarly beneficial finalists presented today at Microsoft's Build developers conference.... →

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Iguazio, an end-to-end platform that allows data scientists to take machine learning models from data ingestion to training, testing and production, today announced that it is bringing its solution to Microsoft’s Azure cloud and Azure Stack on-premises platform. The 80-person company, which has received a total of $48 million in funding to date, aims to […]... →

It won’t be long before Red Hat becomes part of IBM, the result of the $34 billion acquisition last year that is still making its way to completion. For now, Red Hat continues as a stand-alone company, and is if to flex its independence muscles, it announced its second agreement in two days with Microsoft […]... →

In November, Amazon launched an Alexa app for Windows 10 PCs which allowed PC owners to speak to Alexa in order to set reminders, timers, alarms, create to-dos, track their calendar, control their smart home get news, information and more, and even play music. Now, that app is getting an update — amid Microsoft’s suite […]... →

Компания Microsoft на ежегодной конференции Build анонсировала новую версию браузера Edge на базе Chromium OS с IE mode (режимом Internet Explorer). IE mode – режим, позволяющий запускать Internet Explorer непосредственно во вкладке Microsoft Edge: таким образом можно будет использовать приложения, созданные на базе Internet Explorer, в современном браузере. Кроме того, в новой версии Edge появятся […] Сообщение Microsoft выпустит новую версию браузера Edge с режимом Internet Explorer появились сначала на S... →

Microsoft has been leaning into accessibility in gaming lately, most visibly with its amazing Adaptive Controller, and a new patent suggests another way the company may be accommodating disabled gamers: an Xbox controller with a built-in braille display.... →

Microsoft на ежегодной конференции Build показала новые инструменты Office 365. В частности, компания анонсировала новую версию браузера Edge на базе Chromium с режимом Internet Explorer.... →