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...
View ArticleApple 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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,...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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,...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleIt'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...
View ArticleHow 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 —...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft'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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft quietly adds a chief scientific officer to its upper leadership in...
Microsoft promoted Eric Horvitz – a longtime technical fellow and Microsoft Research director – to chief scientific officer, a new C-suite role at the company.Peter Lee, head of Microsoft Healthcare,...
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