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Cryptography Could Add Privacy Protections to NSA Phone Surveillance
Cryptography could enforce limits on data collected for surveillance data while still permitting agencies to do their jobs, argues a Microsoft researcher.
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The Invisible Revolution
Chandra’s first revelation was that farmers could use television white spaces — TV frequencies that aren’t being used in rural areas and can be accessed for wireless Internet connectivity.
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Microsoft’s Spooky New Bot Can Automatically Caption Your Photos – Sometimes
Microsoft’s CaptionBot uses computer vision and natural language processing to describe any photo, just as a human would.
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Microsoft demos next-generation image-captioning Captionbot
Microsoft created Captionbot.ai, which is a tremendously addictive (and science-fiction-grade awesome).
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Microsoft Translator brings end-to-end speech translation to everyone with the worldâs first Speech Translation API
A new Microsoft Translator API adds real-time speech-to-speech (and speech to text) translation capabilities to the existing text translation API. Powered by Microsoft’s state-of-the-art AI technologies, this capability has been available to millions of users…
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Microsoft Demos Star Wars-Style ‘Holoportation’
The company is developing technology that can transmit 3D models of people anywhere in the world. Online video chatting is so last year: Microsoft now wants to connect far-flung family and friends through holograms. The…
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Microsoft ‘holoportation’ lets you share a room with a faraway friend
Whether you need to inform Obi-Wan he’s your only hope, or just want to hang out with loved ones who are far, far away, who hasn’t dreamed of a future involving holograms? Microsoft’s “holoportation” demo…
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Holoportation brings Star Wars-style holograms to life
Forget that galaxy far, far away. Microsoft’s Holoportation looks better than anything a droid could project. (If you don’t mind the headgear.) Watch Update below for a look at what it takes to transport yourself…
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Microsoft creates real Star Wars holograph so people can be in two places at once
Microsoft has made Star Wars-style holographic communication possible with its new HoloLens. The technology giant is yet to release the HoloLens as its technology experts continue to experiment with what it is capable of doing.…
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‘Holoportation’ demo makes live-video holograms look easy
Microsoft Research shows off how HoloLens can bring distant family members into your living room. Last June Microsoft showed off its HoloLens tech that created holograms from live video. Now it’s putting that into practice…