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Live stream of Microsoft's Build 2017 keynote from Seattle — Join us starting May 10 at 8 a.m. PT to learn more about what's on the horizon for Microsoft.
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Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2017 for Mac out of preview — At Microsoft's Build 2017 developer conference, its biggest Visual Studio news wasn't even for its own platform: Visual Studio 2017 for Mac has hit general availability (download here, requires OS X El Capitan 10.11 or higher).
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Microsoft says 500M devices are now running Windows 10, up from 400M in September 2016 — Microsoft is announcing today that 500 million active machines are now running Windows 10. The latest statistic comes almost 8 months after the company revealed 400 million devices were running Windows 10.
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Microsoft's Cognitive Services get customizable models for search, image classification, and A/B testing, and launches video indexer to make videos searchable — At its Build developer conference, Microsoft's Cognitive Services, its platform for making various kinds of machine learning …
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What to expect from this week's Microsoft Build 2017: Cortana speakers and skills, more bots and Edge extensions, Windows 10 update, but no new Surface hardware — Microsoft is hosting its annual Build developers conference in Seattle this year. The first keynote kicks off on Wednesday …
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Microsoft shows off Presentation Translator, which translates PowerPoint slides in real-time, now available in closed preview — A lot of what Microsoft is showing at its Build conference this week is squarely aimed at developers. But in the barrage of news about Azure, Visual Studio and .NET …
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Microsoft debuts Azure Batch AI Training for training neural networks using Azure, available in private preview — At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Azure Batch AI Training. While that's a mouthful, the name pretty much tells you what it is …
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Apple acquires Beddit iPhone-connected sleep monitoring system, according to updated privacy policy — Apple recently acquired Beddit Sleep Monitor, an app and sleep system designed to monitor daily sleep habits through the iPhone, according to an updated privacy policy posted …
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Stratasys demos new 3D printing tech, a modular wall of cloud-controlled 3D printers linked together, continuously producing in assembly-line fashion — Stratasys' latest innovation is designed to continuously produce parts with minimal human interaction, making larger runs, prototyping, and lowering costs easier than ever before.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Opera rolls out major update to desktop browser that now features quick access to Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram from an optional sidebar — Opera has been working on a complete redesign of its desktop browser for a few months. Codenamed “Reborn”, the browser is now available as a stable release.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will now rank sites with “disruptive, shocking or malicious ads” lower in News Feed — Facebook will bury links to low-quality websites and refuse to carry ads pointing to them in a News Feed algorithm changeannounced today. Facebook defines a ‘low-quality site’ as one …
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Microsoft debuts Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed database with five consistency choices, and new MySQL and PostgreSQL options for Azure Database — Arguably the biggest Azure news to come out of Microsoft's Build 2017 developer conference is the debut of Azure Cosmos DB.
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Microsoft patches remote code-execution vulnerability discovered in its malware protection engine which is used in nearly every version of Windows — PCs can be compromised when Defender scans an e-mail or IM; patch has been issued. — Microsoft on Monday patched a severe code-execution vulnerability …
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ASUS ZenFone 3 Zoom, which has rear-facing wide angle, optical zoom cameras, and a 5,000 mAh battery, goes on sale starting at $329 — 2.3X optical zoom, and a 5,000mAh battery — Asus' ZenFone 3 Zoom, a follow-up to 2015's original ZenFone Zoom, is now available with a starting retail price of $329.| Robert Hof / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia beats with Q1 revenue of $1.94B, up 48% YoY, net income of $507M, up 144%, gaming revenue up 49% to $1.03B, thanks to Switch; stock up 14%+ after hours — Artificial intelligence and gaming once again boosted the fortunes of Nvidia Corp. as the maker of graphics chips reported better …
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A look at Amazon's redesigned Alexa app for iOS, which adds messaging, calling functionality — Alongside the announcement today of a new Echo product coming soon, the screen-equipped Echo Show, Amazon has launched a redesigned Alexa app for iOS. The new app's highlight feature … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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