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18:05 02.04.2016

Here’s how we fix the Tay problem

GUEST: Microsoft’s intelligent chatbot Tay behaved badly last week (and this week too), but that shouldn’t have shocked any of us. Clearly, we’re expecting too much of AI too soon. Flaws are what make us who we are as people — they define us. So it’s a bit of a double standard that we seem to […]... →

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01:09 02.04.2016

Apple looks pretty damn good at 40

Apple Computer Company was founded 40 years ago today, on April Fools’ Day, in Los Altos, California, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne. To celebrate its big four-oh — as Microsoft did last year — the company is flying a commemorative pirate flag at its headquarters, 1 Infinite Loop, in Cupertino, a […]... →

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19:40 01.04.2016

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Miitomo hits the U.S., and Final Fantasy XV gets a release date

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we reviewed Microsoft exclusive Quantum Break, the Oculus Rift starts shipping, and we discussed how Muslims are portrayed in gaming. Happy reading, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion Watch us play Quantum Break Watch a stop motion video made entirely in Snapchat Dark Souls III […]... →

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19:27 01.04.2016

Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon voice support for Obama’s Clean Power Plan

Tech giants Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon have submitted a joint brief to the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court in support of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) to empower the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate emissions from power plants across the U.S. The CPP was blocked (for now) by the Supreme Court yesterday after “five separate stay applications were filed by […]... →

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17:16 01.04.2016

Watch us play Quantum Break

Let’s go play with Iceman! Microsoft is getting ready to launch Quantum Break, one of its biggest games of the first half of 2016, April 5 for Xbox One and PC. This is the latest release from Alan Wake developer Remedy, and it features cinematic storytelling similar to the studio’s other games. Actor Shawn Ashmore, […]... →

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10:03 01.04.2016

Quantum Break tips and tricks that keep you from getting stuck in time

Quantum Break is the new time travel game from Microsoft and developer Remedy Entertainment, and it has one of the most interesting and complex stories I’ve ever seen in a video game. Quantum Break is one of the most important new original games coming from Microsoft, which needs exclusive games like this for its hardware […]... →

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10:02 01.04.2016

Quantum Break gameplay and TV episodes show the blending of interactivity and live action video

Quantum Break is a big new video game from Microsoft for the PC and Xbox One. Remedy worked on this time-travel shooter game for five years. It is perhaps the biggest new original game that Microsoft has coming for the Xbox One, and its success or failure will help or hinder Microsoft in its console […]... →

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10:01 01.04.2016

Quantum Break takes interactivity, video, and time travel in a riveting direction

Time travel stories are perhaps the most complicated plots in all of storytelling, and they’re very difficult to pull off. But when they work, they’re awesome, like The Terminator movies or Stephen King’s The Dark Tower novels. Quantum Break, the big budget video game from Microsoft and developer Remedy Entertainment, has one of the most […]... →

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02:54 01.04.2016

Sorry, Oculus, but Hololens gets my money

The battle between headsets you strap to your heads is being brought to a rolling boil this week, as Microsoft’s HoloLens Dev Kit and Oculus Rift both start shipping to customers. Being a lover of cutting-edge tech, you’d expect I’d be in lust with both technologies, but no. HoloLens did something to me that Oculus never managed: It made me think I was leaping into the… Read More... →

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00:49 01.04.2016

Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman on getting acquired by Microsoft

Microsoft announced in February its plans to acquire the cross-platform development platform Xamarin; the deal closed about two weeks ago. Even though the ink on the contracts has barely dried, Microsoft already made Xamarin the center of attention at its annual Build developer conference today by announcing its plans to roll Xamarin into every Visual Studio tier, including the free… Read More... →

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00:36 01.04.2016

Xbox Live down as some multiplayer features fail to load

Gamers are encountering problems communicating and getting into matches with their friends on Microsoft’s consoles. Xbox Live is down for some, according to complaints on social media. Most people who are running into errors are finding that they cannot start up a group chat session or send invites to friends. This is preventing Xbox One […]... →

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00:08 01.04.2016

Microsoft denies Edge is getting a native ad blocker

On top of the slew of news coming out of Microsoft’s Build 2016 developer conference, a story broke yesterday that Microsoft was building an ad blocker into its Microsoft Edge browser. While this would be a big deal, it apparently isn’t true. “We have no plans to build a native ad blocker into Microsoft Edge,” […]... →

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21:24 31.03.2016

Microsoft’s new tools let businesses integrate Skype into their own web and mobile apps

Following yesterday’s news about bringing bots to the Skype platform, Microsoft today unveiled two more SDKs for its Skype platform which will allow businesses and application developers a way to integrate Skype’s capabilities into their own applications. On stage at its annual Build conference, the company took the wraps off two new toolkits for developers: the Skype Web SDK and… Read More... →

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21:23 31.03.2016

Teens use Windows 10 IoT Core to run science experiments in space

EXCLUSIVE: Developing for Windows 10 might sound complicated. But 14-year-old Mihir Kasmalkar figured it out. Now he and his classmates at the Valley Christian Schools in San Jose, California — with a little help from Microsoft — are preparing to send a MinnowBoard Max running the Windows 10 IoT Core operating system up to the International […]... →

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21:02 31.03.2016

Microsoft announces new Edge extensions: Pinterest, Adblock Plus, LastPass, Amazon Assistant, Evernote, and more

Microsoft today announced a slew of new Edge extensions. Partners announced include Pinterest, Ad Block, Adblock Plus, LastPass, Amazon Assistant, Evernote, and Page Analyzer powered by Vorlon.js. Exactly two weeks ago, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 preview build with Edge extension support, arguably the most important feature missing from Microsoft’s new browser. But the […]... →

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20:55 31.03.2016

Microsoft gives developers new options to plug into Office 365

At the Build Developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced a series of new Office 365 developer tools designed to enhance how they interact with Office 365 platform. Microsoft outlined three new ways for developers to work with Office 365 including Graph APIs to provide intelligent integration inside third party applications using content from the Microsoft Graph,… Read More... →

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20:42 31.03.2016

Microsoft’s DocumentDB now lets you use your mad MongoDB skills

Are you fluent in MongoDB? Well today is your lucky day. Microsoft’s NoSQL document database service DocumentDB now supports drivers for MongoDB. So if you were using existing MongoDB tools and libraries, now you can use them with DocumentDB and take advantage of Microsoft’s cloud architecture. Read More... →

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20:18 31.03.2016

Microsoft unveils Graph improvements, Office for Mac add-ins, new Skype SDKs, and Office 365 connectors

At its Build 2016 developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced three improvements that help developers leverage Microsoft Office. Qi Lu, executive vice president at Microsoft, took the stage to show off what’s new with Microsoft Graph, Office for Mac 2016, Skype, and Office 365. In November 2015, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Graph, which […]... →

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20:11 31.03.2016

Microsoft сделала бесплатной платформу для разработки кроссплатформенных приложений Xamarin для пользователей Visual Studio

Microsoft открыла бесплатный доступ к инструментам для создания кроссплатформенных приложений Xamarin для разработчиков, которые используют Visual Studio.... →

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19:55 31.03.2016

Microsoft launches Power BI Embedded in public preview

Microsoft today announced a free public preview of Power BI Embedded, a version of the Power BI business intelligence (BI) service that can be tucked inside of other applications. “You can do this without requiring your users to buy or even be aware of what Power BI is,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for […]... →

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