Source: siliconangle.com It’s no secret that the representation of women in the technology workforce is lower than it should be. For predictive analytics professionals, a Burch Works study showed that women comprised 26% of the workforce in 2019, an increase over the previous year of only 2%. Microsoft Corp. is taking its own steps to change that. Through active participation Read More
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Source: networkworld.com Cisco and Microsoft have tied together their edge-to-cloud software packages in an effort to ease the management of IoT devices. Specifically, Cisco this week said it will meld its recently announced Intelligent Edge software with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub. Cisco Edge Intelligence runs on Cisco’s IoT packages and gathers data from connected devices to create logical flows Read More
Source: biometricupdate.com Google’s move to eliminate gender labels from its artificial intelligence-powered computer vision services has put pressure on Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM to remove the feature, which automatically assigns the label of “man” or “woman” to people, according to Business Insider India. Google took the step weeks ago, saying it wanted to bring the service into Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.net Popular expressions, for example, “artificial intelligence”, “machine learning” and “Big Data” have without question become a significant topic in the present tech scene and they are digging in for the long-term. However, the advancement power behind Artificial Intelligence and its related perspectives have additionally discovered its way to the core phase of our Read More
Source: financialexpress.com During the Mumbai edition of the Future Decoded Summit on February 24, Microsoft revealed the names of several start-ups that it has been working with in India. In the Bengaluru edition, these start-ups showcased their work. Some of these include Elastic Run, Spektacom, Bizongo, Sun Mobility and Bionic Yantra. Elastic Run built a Read More
Source: finance.yahoo.com SINGAPORE, Feb. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Microsoft today awarded Team Hollo from Hong Kong and Nutone from Japan the top prize following an intense finale against 8 other teams across the region at the 2020 Imagine Cup Asia finals. The competition is designed to inspire students to use their imagination and passion for technology to create innovative solutions that Read More
Source: finance.yahoo.com ClearDATA®, the leader in healthcare public cloud security, compliance and privacy, today expanded their ClearDATA Comply™ Software as a Service (SaaS) compliance management product to include Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Services. With this new addition to the ClearDATA portfolio of products, more healthcare providers, payers and life sciences organizations can adopt Azure’s Infrastructure as Read More
Source: customerthink.com Machine learning as a service (MLaaS) is a set of cloud services that machine learning providers offer as a part of cloud computing services. MLaaS providers offer tools including face recognition, data visualization, application programming interface (APIs), predictive analytics, natural language processing, and deep learning. The main attraction of these services is that, Read More
Source: sg.channelasia.tech Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimisation library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware. According to a Microsoft Research blog post announcing the new framework, DeepSpeed improves PyTorch model training through a memory optimisation technology that increases the number of possible parameters Read More
Source: helpnetsecurity.com ZeroFOX, the leading provider of public attack surface protection, announced it has extended its artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform to now include advanced protection capabilities to solve intractable challenges in the cloud email security market and complement existing email security. The ZeroFOX Advanced Email Protection suite includes capabilities that address Business Email Compromise Read More
Source: infoworld.com Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimization library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware. According to a Microsoft Research blog post announcing the new framework, DeepSpeed improves PyTorch model training through a memory optimization technology that increases the number of possible parameters Read More
Source: analyticsinsight.ne Without the help of experts, it is impossible to churn out the appropriate insights from the given data across any organization. The interdisciplinary field of data science is growing with great relevance and so do data scientists. They deal with processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from large amounts of data. It was Read More
Source: zdnet.com A year ago, we spoke of Oracle’s positioning of its cloud as a second generation, both literally and figuratively. It’s no coincidence that Oracle’s cloud unit is based in Seattle and counts many AWS and Azure alumni among its team. A year later, Oracle has an agreement to link up to Microsoft Azure Read More
Source: indulgexpress.com As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized on keeping Azure Cloud secure with integrated end-to-endidentity, security and compliance solutions, cybersecurity firm Check Point revealed that it identified twomajor security flaws in Microsoft Azure last year which have now been fixed. The researchers at Israel-based Check Point discovered that a user on the Azure network Read More
Source: oilandgasmiddleeast.com Petrofac has chosen Microsoft Azure’s Internet of Things for its Connected Construction platform designed to accelerate digital transformation at its project worksites. “Microsoft’s mission is to empower every individual and organisation on the planet to achieve more,” said Sayed Hashish, general manager, Microsoft UAE. “Petrofac serves some of the largest oil, gas and Read More
Source: newsgram.com As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized on keeping Azure Cloud secure with integrated end-to-end identity, security and compliance solutions, cybersecurity firm Check Point on Thursday revealed that it identified two major security flaws in Microsoft Azure last year which have now been fixed. The researchers at Israel-based Check Point discovered that a user Read More
Source: healthitanalytics.com January 29, 2020 – Microsoft has launched a five-year, $40 million program called AI for Health, an initiative that will use artificial intelligence tools to address some of healthcare’s biggest challenges, including disease diagnosis and treatment and global health crises. The AI for Health program will ensure that nonprofits, academia, and research organizations Read More
Source: infoq.com Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning team recently open-sourced their contribution to the ONNX Runtime library for improving the performance of the natural language processing (NLP) model BERT. With the optimizations, the model’s inference latency on the SQUAD benchmark sped up 17x. Senior program manager Emma Ning gave an overview of the results in a Read More
Source: cbronline.com Filter out the noise… As computer vision and machine learning get more powerful, businesses are using live video streaming analytics to add value to their operations — from assessing flaws on production lines, to conducting dynamic crowd analysis, or more prosaically, digital doorbell firms sending alerts for package delivery. Analysing video footage in Read More
Source: data-economy.com The move follows strategic cloud services deals that the Indian firm has signed with both IBM and Google in recent times. India-headquartered IT services player HCL Technologies has formed its dedicated HCL Microsoft Business Unit focused on supplying Microsoft cloud technologies, along with those around IoT and artificial intelligence. The Microsoft unit will Read More
Source: bloombergquint.com Google announced a massive shift last week in how it handles cookies, those pesky digital trackers that chase us around the internet and serve up targeted ads that are both creepy yet eerily precise reflections of our wants. The search giant, which just helped Alphabet Inc. surpass a $1 trillion valuation, said it Read More
Source: cio.eletsonline.com As many as 54 tech startups have been selected under Microsoft India’s ‘Highway to a Hundred Unicorns’ programme, which was launched by the tech-giant to engage with innovators and entrepreneurs across Tier-2 cities to help them scale their businesses. “The entrepreneurial energy of startups is rising well beyond the known metropolitan hubs and is Read More
Source: martechseries.com LG Powers Automotive Infotainment and Building Management Systems with Microsoft Azure Cloud and AI Technologies LG Electronics (LG) is working with Microsoft to build its automotive infotainment systems, building management systems and other business-to-business collaborations. As announced at CES 2020, LG will leverage Microsoft Azure and AI services to accelerate the digital transformation of Read More
Source: msdynamicsworld.com The 2020s are now underway, but for the Microsoft Azure world, it’s been a slow start. As 2019 drew to a close, both of the big holidays this season fell in the middle of the week, meaning a nearly two week lull with few announcements from Microsoft or its partners and ISVs. With Read More
Source: thenextweb.com No other technology was more important over the past decade than artificial intelligence. Stanford’s Andrew Ng called it the new electricity, and both Microsoft and Google changed their business strategies to become “AI-first” companies. In the next decade, all technology will be considered “AI technology.” And we can thank deep learning for that. Read More
Source: towardsdatascience.com It’s been a hell of a decade for data science — Watson dominated Jeopardy (2011), the White House announced the first Chief Data Scientist (2015), and Deepfakes provided all the Nicolas Cage films we ever wanted (2017). Even our discipline’s name, data science, came out of the last 10 years. With 2019 coming to Read More
Source: karmaimpact.com Chinese internet giant Baidu is now the world’s leader in a critical AI segment for understanding human language, dethroning Microsoft and Google. Baidu, China’s biggest search engine, got the “highest ever score” in a test aimed at measuring AI language processing, MIT Technology Review reported, underscoring accelerating competition for the most efficient and Read More
Source: Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google owns the world’s largest search engine, web browser, and mobile operating system. Yet it controlled just 4% of the public cloud services market last year, according to Gartner. That put it in fourth place behind Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Alibaba — which controlled 48%, 16%, and 8% of that market, respectively. Google still believes that it can challenge Amazon and Read More
Source: skystatement.com Summarizing text is a task at which machine learning algorithms are improving, as evidenced by a recent paper published by Microsoft. That’s good news — automatic summarization systems promise to cut down on the amount of message-reading enterprise workers do, which one survey estimates amounts to 2.6 hours each day. Not to be Read More
Source: insights.dice.com Microsoft’s new tool, part of its Azure cloud platform, wants to make machine learning (ML) a drag-and-drop proposition. In theory, this is a good thing for employees who aren’t mathematically inclined, or who have no background in programming or machine learning; while every organization would like its teams to become machine-learning experts, that’s simply not feasible. Microsoft’s Read More