We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 86 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Applications 360°VR Museum: The 360°VR Museum is a virtual exhibition platform that allows users to view HD 360-degree re-creations of local and international exhibitions where visitors […]
Archives for August 2019
PyTorch on Azure: Full support for PyTorch 1.2
Congratulations to the PyTorch community on the release of PyTorch 1.2! Last fall, as part of our dedication to open source AI, we made PyTorch one of the primary, fully supported training frameworks on Azure. PyTorch is supported across many of our AI platform services and our developers participate in the PyTorch community, contributing key […]
Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Switzerland
UBS Group, Swiss Re Group, Swisscom, and others turn to Microsoft for their digital transformations Today, we’re announcing the availability of Azure from our new cloud regions in Switzerland. These new regions and our ongoing global expansion are in response to customer demand as more industry leaders choose Microsoft’s cloud services to further their digital […]
Russia’s Rostec unit ready for out-of-court deal with Boeing on 737 MAX order
A unit of Russian conglomerate Rostec said on Tuesday it was ready for an out-of-court settlement with Boeing over its order for 35 Boeing 737 MAX jets, a spokesman for Rostec’s subsidiary Avia Capital Service told Reuters.
Banks Ramp Up Machine Learning, Work Through Data Challenges
Machine learning in pilot and production is growing in many industries, and finance is no exception, but there are concerns.
AI Rushes Forward Driven by a Sense of Urgency
We don’t know where we are going with artificial intelligence, but we are going there fast.
Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites
Providing users fast and reliable access to their cloud services, apps, and content is pivotal to a business’ success. The latency when accessing cloud-based services can be the inhibitor to cloud adoption or migration. In most cases, this is caused by commercial internet connections that aren’t tailored to today’s global cloud needs. Through deployment and […]
AI can help prevent mass shootings
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand tracking from Google’s AI labs, however, could be the breakthrough some have been waiting for. The new technique uses a few […]
AICPA Proposes New SAS on Auditing Accounting Estimates
The AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board (ASB) has issued the Exposure Draft, Proposed Statement on Auditing Standards: Auditing Accounting Estimates and Related Disclosures. The comment deadline is November 22, 2019. The ASB developed the Exposure Draft as part of its Enhancing Audit Quality Initiative project to enhance the auditing standards relating to auditing accounting estimates. As […]
Wall Street rises after Trump’s softer stance on trade
Wall Street’s main indexes rose 1% on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump eased his stance on trade with China, calming investor nerves after an intense feud between the world’s top two economies last week sent stocks tumbling.