The tech world, Burger explained, was moving into a new orbit. In the future, a few giant Internet companies would operate a few giant Internet services so complex and so different from what came before that these companies would have to build a whole new architecture to run them. They would create not just the software driving these services, but the hardware, including servers and networking gear. Project Catapult would equip all of Microsoft’s servers—millions of them—with specialized chips that the company could reprogram for particular tasks.
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research non-profit backed by Tesla's Elon Musk, Y Combinator's Sam Altman, a Donald Trump fan called Peter Thiel, and..
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research non-profit backed by Tesla's Elon Musk, Y Combinator's Sam Altman, a Donald Trump fan called Peter Thiel, and..
On Wednesday, the world learned of a new industry association called the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, and it includes some of the biggest tech companies in the world. IBM, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon have all signed on as marquis members, though the group hopes to expand even further over time. The goal is to create a body that can provide a platform for discussions among stakeholders and work out best practices for the artificial intelligence industry. Not directly mentioned, but easily seen on the horizon, is its place as the primary force lobbying for smarter legislation on AI and related future-tech issues.
Best practices can be boring or important, depending on the context, and in this case they are very, very important. Best practices could provide a framework for accurate safety testing, which will be important as researchers ask people to put more and more of their lives in the hands of AI and AI-driven robots. This sort of effort might also someday work toward a list of inherently dangerous and illegitimate actions or AI “thought” processes. One of its core goals is to produce thought leadership on the ethics of AI development.
On Wednesday, the world learned of a new industry association called the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, and it includes some of the biggest tech companies in the world. IBM, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon have all signed on as marquis members, though the group hopes to expand even further over time. The goal is to create a body that can provide a platform for discussions among stakeholders and work out best practices for the artificial intelligence industry. Not directly mentioned, but easily seen on the horizon, is its place as the primary force lobbying for smarter legislation on AI and related future-tech issues.
Best practices can be boring or important, depending on the context, and in this case they are very, very important. Best practices could provide a framework for accurate safety testing, which will be important as researchers ask people to put more and more of their lives in the hands of AI and AI-driven robots. This sort of effort might also someday work toward a list of inherently dangerous and illegitimate actions or AI “thought” processes. One of its core goals is to produce thought leadership on the ethics of AI development.
Microsoft said Thursday that it has acquired game livestreaming service Beam, a deal that allows the company access to the lucrative streaming and e-sports markets.
Microsoft said Thursday that it has acquired game livestreaming service Beam, a deal that allows the company access to the lucrative streaming and e-sports markets.
Microsoft, hot on the heels of the news that it is buying LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, has announced yet another acquisition, this time in the area of natural..
Microsoft, hot on the heels of the news that it is buying LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, has announced yet another acquisition, this time in the area of natural..
Microsoft bezahlt rund 320 Millionen US-Dollar für den israelischen Cloud-Security-Anbieter Adallom. Die Lösung des Unternehmens soll unerwünschte Zugriffe auf Cloud-Dienste erkennen und blockieren.
Microsoft bezahlt rund 320 Millionen US-Dollar für den israelischen Cloud-Security-Anbieter Adallom. Die Lösung des Unternehmens soll unerwünschte Zugriffe auf Cloud-Dienste erkennen und blockieren.
Vor gut einer Woche gab es die ersten Gerüchte, jetzt scheint klar: Microsoft hat das Start-up 6Wunderkinder übernommen. Der Kaufpreis soll bis zu 200 Millionen US-Dollar betragen.
Vor gut einer Woche gab es die ersten Gerüchte, jetzt scheint klar: Microsoft hat das Start-up 6Wunderkinder übernommen. Der Kaufpreis soll bis zu 200 Millionen US-Dollar betragen.
'Spartan could spell the future of Microsoft's browser technology: fewer compatibility issues, more multi-platform friendliness. It will reportedly launch alongside Internet Explorer as part of Windows 10.
Spartan could spell the future of Microsoft's browser technology: fewer compatibility issues, more multi-platform friendliness. It will reportedly launch alongside Internet Explorer as part of Windows 10.
At Microsoft TechFest 2013, Microsoft Research is showing off a 3D touchscreen with haptic feedback. This display, called 3D Haptic Touch, provides active resistance (haptic feedback) as you push 3D objects around a virtual workspace.
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Robin Good: Back at the end of February Microsoft Research announced IllumiShare a new tool that enables two folks to share any physical or digital object on any surface.
Illumishare utilizes a lamp to light your desktop and a camera-projector right above it enables remote users to see what you are doing on it and vice-versa.
Steve Clayton writes: "IllumiShare uses a camera-projector pair where the camera captures video of the local workspace and sends it to the remote space and the projector projects video of the remote workspace onto the local space.
With IllumiShare people can sketch together using real ink and paper, remote meeting attendees can interact with conference room whiteboards, and children can have remote play dates in which they interact with real toys."
Cnet reports: "Imagine having a real-time card game with a friend thousands of miles away without looking at a computer screen.
Microsoft Research is showing off IllumiShare, a virtual shared whiteboard that works on any surface.
Despite having the innocent appearance of a lamp, the low-cost device actually shares the surface it's illuminating over the Internet.
This means you could sketch a portrait with someone else using real paper, or create a real-time dynamic learning scenario that enables a remote tutor to teach a child much more effectively than ever before.
You could even play a game of Canasta with your grandmother if you wanted to."
FEI-FEI LI IS a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of ImageNet, a vast database of images designed to accelerate the development of AI that can “see.” And, well, it worked, helping to drive the creation of deep learning systems that can recognize objects, animals, people, and even entire scenes in photos—technology that has become commonplace on the world’s biggest photo-sharing sites. Now, Fei-Fei will help run a brand new AI group inside Google, a move that reflects just how aggressively the world’s biggest tech companies are remaking themselves around this breed of artificial intelligence.
Facebook Manages to Squeeze an AI Into Its Mobile App Alongside a former Stanford researcher—Jia Li, who more recently ran research for the social networking service Snapchat—the China-born Fei-Fei will lead a team inside Google’s cloud computing operation, building online services that any coder or company can use to build their own AI. This new Cloud Machine Learning Group is the latest example of AI not only re-shaping the technology that Google uses, but also changing how the company organizes and operates its business.
FEI-FEI LI IS a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of ImageNet, a vast database of images designed to accelerate the development of AI that can “see.” And, well, it worked, helping to drive the creation of deep learning systems that can recognize objects, animals, people, and even entire scenes in photos—technology that has become commonplace on the world’s biggest photo-sharing sites. Now, Fei-Fei will help run a brand new AI group inside Google, a move that reflects just how aggressively the world’s biggest tech companies are remaking themselves around this breed of artificial intelligence.
Facebook Manages to Squeeze an AI Into Its Mobile App Alongside a former Stanford researcher—Jia Li, who more recently ran research for the social networking service Snapchat—the China-born Fei-Fei will lead a team inside Google’s cloud computing operation, building online services that any coder or company can use to build their own AI. This new Cloud Machine Learning Group is the latest example of AI not only re-shaping the technology that Google uses, but also changing how the company organizes and operates its business.
Microsoft HoloLens has been used in airline pilot training, kitchen remodel demos, even space-to-Earth communication. Now, the Ukrainian military is eyeing the mixed-reality headset for the battlefield.
A HoloLens-enabled helmet from LimpidArmor gives tank commanders 360-degree thermal and optical views of their surroundings. The device (pictured), dubbed Circular Review System (CRS), combines Redmond's tech with a combat helmet, so wearers can live stream camera feeds outside the armored vehicle.
As VR Scout reports, the headgear keeps officials informed about their surroundings so they can target the enemy and prevent friendly fire.
Microsoft HoloLens has been used in airline pilot training, kitchen remodel demos, even space-to-Earth communication. Now, the Ukrainian military is eyeing the mixed-reality headset for the battlefield.
A HoloLens-enabled helmet from LimpidArmor gives tank commanders 360-degree thermal and optical views of their surroundings. The device (pictured), dubbed Circular Review System (CRS), combines Redmond's tech with a combat helmet, so wearers can live stream camera feeds outside the armored vehicle.
As VR Scout reports, the headgear keeps officials informed about their surroundings so they can target the enemy and prevent friendly fire.
Eine Art Twitch mit mehr interaktiven Elementen - das ist der Streamingdienst Beam. Jetzt will Microsoft die Firma kaufen, um sie in seine Xbox-Sparte einzugliedern. Der Typ im Let's Play hat keine Ahnung, welche Waffen er ins große Gefecht mitnehmen soll? Wenn er seinen Stream mit Beam überträgt, kann ihm unter Umständen geholfen werden: Dann kann die Community eine erfolgversprechende Kombination zusammenstellen. Jetzt hat Microsoft in seinem Blog bekanntgegeben, die kleine Firma für einen nicht genannten Kaufpreis zu übernehmen. Beam soll in die Xbox-Sparte integriert werden, so dass früher oder später mit entsprechenden Videoangeboten auf Xbox Live zu rechnen ist.
Eine Art Twitch mit mehr interaktiven Elementen - das ist der Streamingdienst Beam. Jetzt will Microsoft die Firma kaufen, um sie in seine Xbox-Sparte einzugliedern. Der Typ im Let's Play hat keine Ahnung, welche Waffen er ins große Gefecht mitnehmen soll? Wenn er seinen Stream mit Beam überträgt, kann ihm unter Umständen geholfen werden: Dann kann die Community eine erfolgversprechende Kombination zusammenstellen. Jetzt hat Microsoft in seinem Blog bekanntgegeben, die kleine Firma für einen nicht genannten Kaufpreis zu übernehmen. Beam soll in die Xbox-Sparte integriert werden, so dass früher oder später mit entsprechenden Videoangeboten auf Xbox Live zu rechnen ist.
Microsoft has partnered with a San Francisco-based company to encode information on synthetic DNA to test its potential as a new medium for data storage.
Twist Bioscience will provide Microsoft with 10 million DNA strands for the purpose of encoding digital data. In other words, Microsoft is trying to figure out how the same molecules that make up humans' genetic code can be used to encode digital information.
While a commercial product is still years away, initial tests have shown that it's possible to encode and recover 100 percent of digital data from synthetic DNA, said Doug Carmean, a Microsoft partner architect, in a statement.
Using DNA could allow massive amounts of data to be stored in a tiny physical footprint. Twist claims a gram of DNA could store almost a trillion gigabytes of data.
Finding new ways to store information is increasingly important as people generate more and more data in their daily lives, and as millions of connected IoT sensors start to come online.
Microsoft has partnered with a San Francisco-based company to encode information on synthetic DNA to test its potential as a new medium for data storage.
Twist Bioscience will provide Microsoft with 10 million DNA strands for the purpose of encoding digital data. In other words, Microsoft is trying to figure out how the same molecules that make up humans' genetic code can be used to encode digital information.
While a commercial product is still years away, initial tests have shown that it's possible to encode and recover 100 percent of digital data from synthetic DNA, said Doug Carmean, a Microsoft partner architect, in a statement.
Using DNA could allow massive amounts of data to be stored in a tiny physical footprint. Twist claims a gram of DNA could store almost a trillion gigabytes of data.
Finding new ways to store information is increasingly important as people generate more and more data in their daily lives, and as millions of connected IoT sensors start to come online.
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.
The web thrives on standards and, for better or worse, JavaScript is its programming language. Over the years, however, we’ve seen more and more efforts that allow developers to work around some of the limitations of JavaScript by building compilers that transpile code in other languages to JavaScript. Some of these projects focus on adding new features to the language (like Microsoft’s TypeScript) or speeding up JavaScript (like Mozilla’s asm.js project). Now, many of these projects are starting to come together in the form of WebAssmbly.
The web thrives on standards and, for better or worse, JavaScript is its programming language. Over the years, however, we’ve seen more and more efforts that allow developers to work around some of the limitations of JavaScript by building compilers that transpile code in other languages to JavaScript. Some of these projects focus on adding new features to the language (like Microsoft’s TypeScript) or speeding up JavaScript (like Mozilla’s asm.jsproject). Now, many of these projects are starting to come together in the form of WebAssmbly.
It is not a secret that Microsoft Corp. pins a lot of hopes onto its Kinect device and derivative motion sensing technologies But while the company does not only sell Kinect for Windows sensor, but also encourages PC makers to integrate the tech into devices, there are a number of problems with those sensors.
Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into compute...
A still photograph is a limited format for capturing moments that span an interval of time. Video is the traditional method for recording durations of time, ...
Samsung's the SUR40 is ready for pre-order in 23 countries (including the U.S.) and could arrive in stores, hospitals, restaurants and more by early 2012.
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