Bank-grade security, super-fast transactions, and analytics If you live in Asia or have ever traveled there, you’ve probably witnessed the dramatic impact that mobile technology has had on all aspects of day to day life. In Hong Kong in particular, most consumers now use a smart phone daily, presenting new opportunities for organizations to deliver […]
Archives for July 2019
Wall Street opens lower as Netflix plunges
U.S. stocks opened lower on Thursday as shares of streaming pioneer Netflix tumbled, kicking off earnings for the FAANG group of stocks on a sour note.
New ways to train custom language models – effortlessly!
Video Indexer (VI), the AI service for Azure Media Services enables the customization of language models by allowing customers to upload examples of sentences or words belonging to the vocabulary of their specific use case. Since speech recognition can sometimes be tricky, VI enables you to train and adapt the models for your specific domain. […]
Silo busting 2.0—Multi-protocol access for Azure Data Lake Storage
Cloud data lakes solve a foundational problem for big data analytics—providing secure, scalable storage for data that traditionally lives in separate data silos. Data lakes were designed from the start to break down data barriers and jump start big data analytics efforts. However, a final “silo busting” frontier remained, enabling multiple data access methods for […]
Why Affective Computing Systems Need Synthetic Emotion
Affective computing systems impact human emotions. They aren’t necessarily able to recognize or respond to emotions well yet, but that will change.
Making it easier to bring your Linux based web apps to Azure App Service
Application development has radically changed over the years. From having to host all the physical hardware hosting the app and its dependences on-premises, to moving to a model where the hardware is hosted by external companies yet still managed by the users on to hosting your apps on a fully managed platform where all hardware […]
Liquidware Showcases Microsoft WVD Application Layering at Microsoft Inspire
Cross OS Integration with FSLogix to be demonstrated on booth #1504 FlexApp Application Layering solution of choice for WVD Liquidware, the leader in adaptive workspace management, today announced the latest version of its award winning ProfileUnity with FlexApp v6.8.3 that delivers new features including official FlexApp application layering support for Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) […]
Microsoft, AT&T ink cloud deal worth more than $2 billion
Microsoft Corp and AT&T Inc on Wednesday said they reached a deal under which the telecommunications firm will tap Microsoft’s Azure cloud service for its computing needs and provide Office 365 software to much of its 268,000-strong workforce.
Microsoft makes it easier to build popular language representation model BERT at large scale
This post is co-authored by Rangan Majumder, Group Program Manager, Bing and Maxim Lukiyanov, Principal Program Manager, Azure Machine Learning. Today we are announcing the open sourcing of our recipe to pre-train BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) built by the Bing team, including code that works on Azure Machine Learning, so that customers can […]
What’s Holding Back Edge Computing for Enterprises?
The combination of technology readiness and business appetite puts us a little closer to wide-scale availability of a new breed of IT infrastructure.