October 29, 2016

An interactive experience of artwork augmented with sound that allows one to 'hear' a large format drawing. Scottish landscape painter Keith Salmon, who is legally blind, debuted an installation with innovative research from Microsoft that enriches his art even more,…

October 28, 2016

The team behind the Oregon Project have created an art installation that allows people who are visually impaired (and those who aren't) to 'hear' a painting.

October 25, 2016

How a synthetic version of our genetic code could become the world's most efficient hard drive.

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 in the Software category.…

October 18, 2016

October 17, 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.