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Source: singularityhub.com Last year, Microsoft announced a billion-dollar investment in OpenAI, an organization whose mission is to create artificial general intelligence and make it safe for humanity. No Terminator-like dystopias here. No deranged machines making humans into paperclips. Just computers with general intelligence helping us solve our biggest problems. A year on, we have the Read More
Source: computerweekly.com During its annual Build 2020 developer conference, Microsoft outlined plans for responsible development processes for machine learning. The aim is to make these repeatable, reliable and accountable. Azure Machine Learning automatically tracks the lineage of datasets, so customers can maintain an audit trail of their machine learning assets, including history, training and model explanations, Read More
Source: livemint.com NEW DELHI: Manipulating images to hide malware is common. Once the image is opened on a system, the malware loader starts the decryption process. The decrypted file is then loaded on to the device memory triggering a malware attack. Now, Microsoft and Intel have found a way to use images to detect malware Read More
Source: livemint.com NEW DELHI: Manipulating images to hide malware is common. Once the image is opened on a system, the malware loader starts the decryption process. The decrypted file is then loaded on to the device memory triggering a malware attack. Now, Microsoft and Intel have found a way to use images to detect malware Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Living in a world of continuous evolution, humans are looking forward to a future with a machine of utmost intelligence. Owing to the fact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is growing at a fast pace, we seek out a fascinating era where technology will possess human-like intelligence in every aspect. This is what in Read More
Source: techrepublic.com The UK government’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has secured an agreement with Microsoft to offer public sector organizations discounted rates for Azure. Billed as the Azure Pricing Arrangement (APA), the agreement builds on the Digital Transformation Arrangement (DTA) than has existed between Microsoft and the CCS since 2018 and runs until April 2021. Read More
Source: computerweekly.com Civil liberties campaigning group Privacy International is questioning the role of Silicon Valley data mining company Palantir in the NHS’s data analysis programme. NHSX and NHS England Improvement reported at the end of March that they had engaged Palantir alongside Microsoft, Google and London-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm Faculty to build a “data platform” to Read More
Source: techrepublic.com Modern machine learning (ML) has become an important tool in a very short time. We’re using ML models across our organisations, either rolling our own in R and Python, using tools like TensorFlow to learn and explore our data, or building on cloud- and container-hosted services like Azure’s Cognitive Services. It’s a technology that helps predict maintenance schedules, spots Read More
Source: sdxcentral.com Microsoft today made available Azure confidential computing built on Intel hardware for enterprise cloud customers. It follows a similar IBM Cloud move last week. The new Azure DCsv2-Series allows companies to process data in the cloud in hardware-based secure enclaves called trusted execution environments (TEEs). Intel calls its TEEs Software Guard Extensions (SGEs). This hardware-based technology isolates Read More
Source: indiaeducationdiary.in New Delhi: Microsoft India has announced that Microsoft Translator will now offer real-time translation in five additional languages viz., Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam and Punjabi. This takes the total number of Indian languages supported to 10, including Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. With this, the service will now allow over 90% of Indians Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com Researchers from Microsoft, Princeton University, Technion and Algorand Foundation recently introduced a new framework known as Falcon. Falcon is an end-to-end 3-party protocol that can be used for fast and secure computations of deep learning algorithms on larger networks. Today, a vast amount of private data and sensitive information is continuously being generated. Read More
Source: Don’t look now, but object stores – those vast repositories of data sitting behind an S3 API – are beginning to resemble databases. They’re obviously still separate categories today, but as the next-generation data architecture takes shape to solve emerging real-time data processing and machine learning challenges, the lines separating things like object stores, Read More
Source: mashviral.com About six months after its announcement at the Ignite conference last fall, Microsoft leveraged a group of MVP analysts and professionals to delve deeper into the Synapse Analytics Analytics service. As noted in Andrew’s coverage last fall, Azure Synapse Analytics is a rebrand and evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, expanding its footprint Read More
Source: thetradenews.com BlackRock has confirmed that its flagship investment operations platform Aladdin will be hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. As part of a strategic partnership, BlackRock said the move to Microsoft Azure will both accelerate innovation on Aladdin with more computing scale, and bring new capabilities to users to improve client experience. BlackRock Read More
Source: tradearabia.com BlackRock and Microsoft Corp. have formed a strategic partnership to host BlackRock’s Aladdin infrastructure on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The partnership brings enhanced capabilities to BlackRock and its Aladdin clients, which include many of the world’s most sophisticated institutional investors and wealth managers. By adopting Microsoft Azure, BlackRock will both accelerate innovation Read More
Source: appdevelopermagazine.com Infragistics is excited to announce a major upgrade to its embedded data analytics software, Reveal. In addition to its fast, easy integration into any platform or deployment option, Reveal’s newest features address the latest trends in data analytics: predictive and advanced analytics, machine learning, R and Python scripting, big data connectors, and much more. These Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Cnvrg.io, a data science startup headquartered in Jerusalem and New York, today released a community version of its machine learning automation platform designed to help enterprises manage and scale AI. CEO Yochay Ettun says the release was motivated in part by the influx of social distancing and remote work stemming from the COVID-19 Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Microsoft’s writing assistant for Microsoft 365 users is getting new AI-powered features like Rewrite Suggestions, which lets you highlight a sentence and then right-click for multiple AI-generated revision ideas, and is coming to Chrome and Edge browser extensions and Outlook.com. AI Editor can also now review text for more gender-related inclusivity and issues Read More
Source: hindustantimes.com Microsoft and AI software provider, C3.ai have partnered with a bunch of US-based universities including to form a research consortium that is focused on innovative efforts to advance the digital transformation of business, government, and society. The consortium, which also includes educational institutes like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Read More
Source: winbuzzer.com Since the COVID-19 outbreak started in in January, we have seen many tech events cancelled or converted to virtual conferences. Form Mobile World Conference (MWC) being cancelled and Microsoft’s Build 2020 heading online, tech events have taken a beating. Among them was NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC), which went virtual. The conference is Read More
Source: crn.com.au Deloitte has acquired Brisbane-based data analytics and financial performance management specialist Bistech for an unspecified sum. Bistech will join Deloitte’s data analytics team in Brisbane, with Bistech co-owners Shane Morgan, Justin Hoareau and Brad Culbert in leadership roles. All 17 consultants will also join Deloitte. “We’re incredibly excited and pleased to be joining Read More
Source: rcpmag.com Microsoft recently described the ways in which its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning offerings, as well as its Azure cloud, are being used by researchers and other public health groups responding to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In one collaboration announced Friday, Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. and Microsoft are using Azure to map the immune Read More
Source: sg.channelasia.tech Wipro has launched a dedicated business unit specialising in the deployment of Microsoft technologies, with a specific focus on enterprise cloud services. Housing trained and certified Microsoft Azure consultants and specialists, the division will offer domain-based offerings and solution accelerators designed to drive adoption of cloud and digital transformation among large-scale customers. At Read More
Source: businesschief.com The overall aim of the alliance between Microsoft and Kubota will see microsoft accelerate the company’s digital transformation, by migrating its IT infrastructure and SAP mission critical systems onto Microsoft Azure’s cloud platform. In doing this, Kubota will standardise and streamline its business operations, accelerate its innovation and transfer to a solution provision Read More
Source: screenafrica.com The world of entertainment is changing rapidly. Increased access to fibre to the home, as well as a growing number of content creators and video-on-demand services are forcing large entertainment companies to rethink their business strategies and innovate new and exciting ways to delight their customers. The MultiChoice Group and its companies have Read More
Source: rtinsights.com Almost every update by an operating system provider inevitably comes with new bugs. The recent Windows 10 update, published by Microsoft earlier this week, significantly slowed PC boot time. While most software developers test updates well in advance, publishing it to millions of different machines can lead to significant differences in how the software performs. Read More
Source: sg.channelasia.tech Bank Mandiri is acting on ambitions to embrace digital transformation in Indonesia through the deployment of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in partnership with Microsoft. Alongside increasing market competitiveness, the collaboration is designed to enhance customer satisfaction, risk management, employee collaboration and business processes across the organisation. “With the aspiration to be Read More
Source: incyberdefense.com Bottom Line: Phishing is the leading cause of all breaches, succeeding because impersonation, redirection, and social engineering methods are always improving. And, phishing is only one way emails are used in fraud. Businesses need to understand if an email address can be trusted before moving forward with a transaction. Microsoft thwarts billions of phishing Read More
Source: futureiot.tech Microsoft and Cisco have announced that they are integrating their cloud and IoT services in a bid to ease the management of IoT devices. This mean tying together the recently released Cisco Edge Intelligence with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub to make transferring data from edge devices to applications in the Azure cloud simpler. The announcement was Read More
Source: mspoweruser.com Microsoft and Cisco recently announced a major IoT partnership that offers a pre-integrated Cisco Edge to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub solution. Both Azure IoT and Cisco IoT are leaders in the industrial IoT market. The new integrated solution from both these companies will enable organizations to rapidly launch IoT initiatives. “This partnership between Read More
