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This Microsoft legend says the the company is making bigger bets than ever...
Microsoft Research is more important to the tech titan than ever.Crucial futuristic products like the HoloLens holographic goggles and Skype Translate came straight out of the company's science...
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Apple should definitely copy Microsoft's incredible finger-sensing smartphone...
Apple could learn a thing or two from this very cool Microsoft Research project, showing a design for "precognitive touch screens."Basically, Microsoft built a "self-capacitive touch screen," which is...
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Microsoft set a new record by storing an OK Go music video and the top 100...
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has set a new record by storing 200 megabytes of data on strands of synthetic DNA. That's about 10 times the previous record. Back in April 2016, Microsoft...
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Microsoft just released an iPhone app it says takes better photos than...
Microsoft is trying to make the iPhone's camera better.Microsoft Research announced a new app for the Apple iPhone on Wednesday that uses artificial intelligence to take better photos. It's called...
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When Microsoft needs a tech 'miracle,' this is the team that answers the call...
In 1991, Microsoft founded Microsoft Research, a division for the company's army of PhDs and scientists to pursue the coolest, wildest, most science-fictional ideas that they possibly could, with the...
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Microsoft taught a computer to make 'chit chat' — and now 40 million people...
Everybody from Facebook to Microsoft to President Barack Obama thinks that chat bots — robots you talk to like humans in apps like Facebook Messenger or Microsoft's Skype — are the future.In many ways,...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is doubling down on his strategy with a new...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's new big idea is the "democratization of artificial intelligence," as in the concept that everybody should have access to AI and AI-powered technology.But to get there,...
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Microsoft is giving its top scientists a new opportunity to actually change...
Bringing a scientist to important customer meetings is nothing new for Microsoft. The idea is that Microsoft Research's biggest brains get the chance to give a short lecture with no point other than to...
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It's official: The Pokémon Go craze has a big impact on Americans' physical...
Despite your feelings on the Pokémon Go craze, there's no denying it's had a major effect on those who play regularly.In total, Pokémon Go added an estimated 144 billion steps to the physical activity...
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How the forgetfulness of one of Microsoft's top scientists inspired a killer...
Like "many, many others," Microsoft Technical Fellow Eric Horvitz, a two-decade-plus company veteran, says he has a bad habit of making promises to his coworkers with every intention of keeping them —...
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Microsoft is forming a grand army of experts in the artificial intelligence...
Artificial intelligence is fast becoming the next major battlefield between Silicon Valley's biggest companies, and Microsoft is putting its troops in formation.On Wednesday morning, Microsoft plans to...
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Microsoft's voice-recognition tech is now better than even teams of humans at...
In October 2016, in a big milestone for artificial intelligence, Microsoft unveiled a system that can transcribe the contents of a phone call as well or better than human professionals.But while...
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How Microsoft's top scientists have built a big business in hacking...
A year ago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella mandated the formation of Microsoft Healthcare NExT — a division within Microsoft to improve healthcare. Now, that group is bearing its first fruit: Microsoft...
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Microsoft has given up 'significant sales' over concerns that the customer...
At a conference this week, Microsoft Research scientist and leader Eric Horvitz says that the company has given up "significant sales" because it was worried the customer would use AI for not-good...
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Here are the 16 predictions Microsoft is making for 2016 (MSFT)
Microsoft Research is the 1,000-strong arm of the company that deals with The Future. Its job is, essentially, to focus more on what comes next than what comes now. The facility, which has been in...
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Microsoft let a bunch of top sci-fi authors into its research labs — and the...
In late 2015, Microsoft published a free e-book anthology of science fiction stories called "Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Stories Inspired by Microsoft." I know. I was skeptical, too. It...
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How Microsoft is trying to get its coolest technology into your hands a lot...
Microsoft is revamping its Microsoft Research arm, where the company comes up with its coolest, most futuristic ideas — including the HoloLens holographic headset — to make sure its best concepts leave...
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Microsoft has a crazy project to build massive data centres under the sea (MSFT)
Microsoft Research, the 1,000-strong scientific research arm of Microsoft, is investigating whether it is possible to put data centres deep under the sea, according to The New York Times.The project,...
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This Microsoft exec's hilarious presentation fail shows why computer...
At today's Structure Data event in San Francisco, Microsoft Research head Peter Lee told the story of a public speaking nightmare that highlights just how difficult it is to build machines that can...
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This Microsoft legend has a mind-blowing theory for how tech is changing our...
Gordon Bell has one of Silicon Valley's most incredible resumes. From 1960 to 1983, Bell led research and development for the Digital Equipment Corporation, one of the first and most important computer...
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