Tag: Microsoft
Microsoft’s Cloud for Healthcare is an elaborate suite of telehealth tools
At its virtual Build conference today, Microsoft announced it is launching industry-specific cloud offerings, starting with one designed for healthcare. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is now available in a public preview and as a free six-month trial… Source
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How Microsoft plans to make life easier for Windows developers
It's 2020, and Microsoft is still juggling two very different APIs (application programming interfaces) in Windows 10. In one corner, you've got the old-school Win32 API and its decades-long legacy. In the other, there's the Universal Windows Platfor… Source
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HoloLens 2 heads to South Korea, Taiwan and more countries
It's been over six months since Microsoft's HoloLens 2 started shipping to customers — now, the company says it's aiming to bring the augmented reality headset to more countries by the end of the year. That includes Spain, Taiwan, South Korea and Ho… Source
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Microsoft’s OpenAI supercomputer has 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs
Last year, Microsoft invested $1 billion in Open AI, a company co-founded by Elon Musk that focuses on the development of human-friendly artificial intelligence. Today at the Build 2020 developer conference, we're seeing the first results of that inv… Source
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Microsoft’s Lists is a powerful to-do app for businesses
Microsoft needs to keep businesses using its software, and is announcing a bunch of updates to its tools at its virtual Build conference today. Among these is a new Lists app that the company is describing as a “smart tracking app across Microsoft 36… Source
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Microsoft and Mojang Studios have sold 200 million copies of ‘Minecraft’
Fads come and go, but the Minecraft craze has yet to abate. Mojang Studios — the game’s creator — and Microsoft announced today that 200 million copies of the sandbox game have been sold since its launch in 2011. To put that into perspective, Grand… Source
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