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18:52 30.03.2016

Microsoft announces the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, coming this summer

Microsoft today announced the next major update of Windows 10 at its Build developer conference in San Francisco. The “Windows 10 Anniversary Update” is scheduled to arrive — you guessed it — on the one-year anniversary of the Windows 10 launch: later this summer. Windows 10 launched on July 29, so that’s probably the date. Many of the new feature will, of… Read More... →

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18:48 30.03.2016

Microsoft: Windows 10 now runs on 270M monthly active devices

Following from the unmitigated disaster that was Windows 8, Windows 10 has been doing rather well for Microsoft. After announcing that its flagship operating system ran on 200 million monthly active devices in January, the company today used its Build keynote to announce that this number is now up to 270 million monthly active devices. Read More... →

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18:48 30.03.2016

Windows 10 is now on over 270 million devices

Microsoft today announced that Windows 10 is now installed on over 270 million devices. It took the latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft about eight months to hit the new milestone. 24 hours after its July 29 launch, Windows 10 was installed on more than 14 million PCs. Then it passed 75 million PCs […]... →

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18:00 30.03.2016

Here’s how to watch today’s Microsoft Build 2016 keynote live stream

Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco this week and the company is kicking off the event with its first of two major keynotes this morning. You can watch the live stream of the event right here. The keynote is scheduled to start at 8:30am Pacific, 11:30am Eastern, and 17:30 Central European Time. Unlike last year, where the focus was squarely on the… Read More... →

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11:13 30.03.2016

Microsoft AI bot Tay returns to Twitter, goes on spam tirade, then back to sleep

Near a week after being silenced because the internet taught her to be racist, Microsoft’s artificial intelligence bot “Tay” briefly returned to Twitter today, whereon she went on a spam tirade and then quickly fell silent again. Read More... →

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10:15 30.03.2016

How to livestream Microsoft’s Build 2016 developer conference

Microsoft’s biggest event of the year is upon us once again: Build 2016 is being held in San Francisco from May 30 to April 1. You can stream the company’s developer conference here or watch via the embedded livestream below. Day 1’s keynote is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Pacific (11:30 a.m. Eastern). Day […]... →

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10:12 30.03.2016

Microsoft’s Tay chatbot comes back online, says it’s ‘smoking kush’ in front of the police

Well, uh, Microsoft’s Tay chatbot, which got turned off a few days ago after behaving badly, has suddenly returned to Twitter and has started tweeting to users like mad. Most of its musings are innocuous, but there is one funny one I’ve come across so far. “i’m smoking kush infront the police,” it wrote. @Y0urDrugDealer […]... →

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07:59 30.03.2016

Apple strikes a deal with MLB to put iPads in dugouts

The MLB is taking a page from the NFL’s playbook and equipping teams with tablets to use during games for the 2016 season. But, instead of Microsoft Surface Tablets, the MLB has made a deal with Apple to provide all 30 MLB teams with iPad Pros to use. The iPads will give coaches the ability to get historical game statistics, pull up video from previous games, and even simulate… Read More... →

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20:55 26.03.2016

Oakland-based art and tech studio

Sure, it’s technologically advanced, but it lacks a general understanding of what’s socially acceptable to say, the real world and the way humans interact. In the last couple of months, Microsoft has had a couple of failed attempts with artificial intelligence. The first involved an image recognition app called Fetch!, which looks at photos of dogs to identify its breed. People,… Read More... →

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20:01 26.03.2016

Microsoft’s ‘holoportation’ with HoloLens is blowing my mind

You can do a lot of impressive things with HoloLens, Microsoft’s augmented reality (AR) headset. But there’s a new thing Microsoft Research’s Interactive 3D Technologies (I3D) team has developed with the HoloLens, and, uh, it’s crazy. A YouTube video posted yesterday shows people in two difference places teleporting into the same room using HoloLens and […]... →

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13:45 26.03.2016

Microsoft took action on 63% of ‘revenge porn’ requests

It happens a lot: two people break up, one of them is angry and post private, explicit photos and videos of the other person online. It’s called “revenge porn.” Both Microsoft andGoogle announced new policies last summer to remove “revenge porn” from their search engines if the victim fills out a form and requests it. Microsoft will even […]... →

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06:16 26.03.2016

Uber recruiting engineers by randomly sending a coding game to play during rides

Microsoft engineer Joshua Debner was taking an Uber in Seattle to meet a friend when the new notification popped up on the screen. Uber wanted to play a game called Code on the Road. Uber confirmed to Business Insider that it’s found a new way to lure engineers to work for the fast-growing startup by […]... →

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00:46 26.03.2016

Microsoft apologizes for hijacked chatbot Tay’s ‘wildly inappropriate’ tweets

The colossal and highly public failure of Microsoft’s Twitter-based chatbot Tay earlier this week raised many questions: How could this happen? Who is responsible for it? And is it true that Hitler did nothing wrong? After a day of silence (and presumably of penance), the company has undertaken to answer at least some of these questions. Read More... →

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23:30 25.03.2016

Game developers weigh in on the openness of Microsoft’s Windows 10 platform

Tim Sweeney, one of the best-known technical experts in the game industry and the CEO of Gears of War creator Epic Games, kicked off a big debate over the openness of Windows earlier this month when he wrote an opinion piece that warned about Microsoft’s moves with Windows 10 to close off its Windows app store […]... →

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23:06 25.03.2016

Microsoft exec apologizes for Tay chatbot’s racist tweets, says users ‘exploited a vulnerability’

Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, Microsoft’s research and development wing, today apologized for the behavior of Tay, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot the company unveiled earlier this week and soon thereafter took offline. “We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we […]... →

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20:40 25.03.2016

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs and mobile with many bug fixes

Microsoft today announced the release of new Windows 10 preview builds for PCs and mobile devices for people in the fast ring of the Windows Insider Program. Unlike the build released on March 17 that brought extensibility to Microsoft’s Edge browser, this preview build doesn’t have any big new features — instead there are a […]... →

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20:00 25.03.2016

Microsoft starts shipping its Surface Hub displays to businesses

Microsoft today announced that it has started to ship out its large Surface Hub touch-friendly displays to business customers. The displays are available in 55- and 84-inch models, for $6,999 and $19,999, respectively. Microsoft first announced the device in January 2015 and since then has talked up its potential here and there, and in August […]... →

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19:54 25.03.2016

After numerous delays, Microsoft finally starts shipping its $22K Surface Hub

If you’re in the market for a giant 84-inch 4K touchscreen computer (and have about $22,000 set aside for that), today is a good day. After numerous delays, Microsoft today started shipping its Surface Hub to business customers. Surface Hub comes in both the giant 84-inch version and a smaller 55-inch HD edition for a relatively affordable $8,999. You’ll still need a stand for… Read More... →

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18:04 25.03.2016

Student Founder Turns Down Microsoft And Google To Build Bae, An App For Black Singles

Over 30 million Americans have used an online dating service or mobile dating app, according to Pew Research Center. Yet Black online users face apparent bias: Data collected from 25 million OkCupid accounts demonstrated that when users rated their matches they penalized Black men and women. Bae :: Before Anyone Else, a mobile dating app created by Jordan Kunzika, Brian Gerrard and Justin… Read More... →

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17:35 25.03.2016

Microsoft told potential Yahoo bidders it might back bids

(By Vishal Sridhar and Rishika Sadam, Reuters) – Microsoft Corp executives are in talks with equity firms considering bids for Yahoo Inc! saying that Microsoft might be willing to offer “significant financing” for their efforts, tech news site Recode reported on Thursday. However, Microsoft has not made commitments so far to investors, and any discussions […]... →

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