November 8, 2019

A large-scale installation powered by AI, Project Ada, responds to occupants' emotions, and is part of a broader push to embed sensing and artificial intelligence into the built environment.

November 7, 2019

Leslie Lamport, Distinguished Scientist, received the NEC C&C Foundation prize (opens in new tab) for outstanding contributions to the development of fundamental theories in distributed computing systems. The Foundation presents the C&C Prizes to distinguished persons in recognition of outstanding contributions to…

November 7, 2019

Microsoft researchers have built a chatbot from OpenAI’s text-generating model GPT-2, and trained it on millions of conversations scraped from... oh crap. Reddit.

November 7, 2019

November 7, 2019

Ars spoke Tuesday with Dr. Ant Rowstron, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, about an innovative cold storage project called Silica. Silica aims to replace both tape and optical archival discs as the media of choice for…

November 6, 2019

Microsoft and Warner Bros. have partnered to preserve the iconic superhero movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a coaster. The idea, hopefully, is that this type of storage technology could help to preserve classic movies for…

November 6, 2019

If you thought Microsoft was simply a productivity company, think again. CEO Satya Nadella kicked off this year’s Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference in Orlando, Fla. with a big sky vision for the company: “How do we power every person and…

November 6, 2019

Remember when a hard drive that could hold a terabyte of data was a big deal? Well, we’re now in an era where peta-, exa- and even zetta-bytes are the bytes of the day, and it turns out it’s hard…