October 25, 2016

Sound propagation in games is usually modeled with tricks and manual markup work. Gears of War 4 uses Project Triton to perform physical analysis of an entire video game level with its materials to calculate its occlusion and reverb properties.…

October 19, 2016

A collaboration between researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington to develop a system that uses synthetic DNA as a medium for archiving digital information received a 2016 Popular Science Best of What’s New Award (opens in new tab)…

October 18, 2016

October 17, 2016

The vision of the so-called internet of things — giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover — has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast.

October 17, 2016

October 17, 2016

When we type in a search query, access our email via the cloud or stream a viral video, chances are we don’t spend any time thinking about the technological plumbing that is behind that instant gratification. Sitaram Lanka and Derek…

October 11, 2016

Microsoft Translator announces the availability of the Russian language as its ninth speech translation language in addition to the existing ones: Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Spanish.