February 7, 2019

Microsoft's technology and partnerships are helping empower care teams, improve clinical and operational outcomes and advance precision healthcare, with a specific focus on putting people's privacy at the center.

February 7, 2019

Microsoft is showing off some of the new healthcare tools and capabilities it will be showcasing next week at the annual Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. The company is making generally available its Healthcare Bot Service; adding more…

February 7, 2019

A chatbot to complement a doctor’s visit? It’s not as radical as it sounds. Hospitals and health systems have plenty of incentive to further adoption of AI conversational agents; according to a survey published by research firm Statista, 27 percent…

February 6, 2019

20 years feels like an eternity in the life of the internet. Back then, a Microsoft researcher named Victor Bahl was working on something that most of us take for granted now: the first Wi-Fi hotspot in a public place.

February 5, 2019

January 31, 2019 marked the start of the sixth workshop for the Swiss Joint Research Center (Swiss JRC), an innovative and successful collaborative research engagement between Microsoft Research and the two universities that make up the Swiss Federal Institutes of…

February 2, 2019

On Monday, it will be five years since Satya Nadella was announced as Microsoft's chief executive. Since taking charge he has turned the tech firm's fortunes around, making it the most valuable company in the world for the first time…

February 2, 2019

Hypezone, which runs on Microsoft’s streaming site Mixer, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to examine streams coming into the site and pick the most interesting moments to show to people. It means fans of games like Fortnite can use the system…