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Microsoft Cloud AI Accelerates Search for New Battery Materials

Extremetech report that "Microsoft and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used AI to narrow a list of 32 million candidate materials down to 18 in hours instead of years."
Source: extremetech.com

Microsoft: Chinese hackers hit key US bases on Guam

The malware hit facilities on Guam that would be critical to any US response to an invasion of Taiwan.
Source: bbc.com

AI information retrieval: A search engine researcher explains the promise and peril of letting ChatGPT and its cousins search

A new generation of artificial intelligence-based information access systems, which includes Microsoft’s Bing/ChatGPT, Google/Bard and Meta/LLaMA, is upending the traditional search engine mode of search input and output. These systems are able to take full sentences and even paragraphs as input and...
Source: ampproject.org

US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack

The US acts to keep fuel flowing after its largest pipeline was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack. "Cyber-security firm Digital Shadows says the Colonial attack has come about due to the pandemic - with more engineers remotely accessing control systems for the pipeline from home. James Chappell, co-founder...
Source: bbc.com

Microsoft Teams AI could tell you who is most enjoying your video call

Researchers at Microsoft have developed an AI for the firm's Teams videoconferencing software that highlights positive audience reactions during a virtual presentation
Source: newscientist.com

New Steps to Combat Disinformation - Microsoft on the Issues: Today, Microsoft announces two new technologies to help battle

New Steps to Combat Disinformation - Microsoft on the Issues: Today, Microsoft announces two new technologies to help battle disinformation – Newsguard, which will allow users to check the accuracy of the content they are reading, and Video Authenticator, which can detect deepfakes and other synthetic...
Source: microsoft.com

Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney: The sea will keep the data centre cool, but the computers onboard will not be repairable

Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney: The sea will keep the data centre cool, but the computers onboard will not be repairable if they break down. An interesting experiment which saves on the enormous cooling costs of data centres and will evaluate the failure rate and performance of the IT. What happens...
Source: bbc.co.uk

Microsoft Seeing AI App for Blind People Describes The World Around. This type of augmented reality technology could prove

Microsoft Seeing AI App for Blind People Describes The World Around. This type of augmented reality technology could prove enormously helpful ... as long as you are presumably attached to 'the cloud'. "Microsoft has released an iPhone app for blind people and those with significantly decreased vision....
Source: medgadget.com

How Airlines Use Facebook Bots.: It’s nothing new — Big companies such as Starbucks, CNN, Microsoft, Tommy Hilfiger,

How Airlines Use Facebook Bots.: It’s nothing new — Big companies such as Starbucks, CNN, Microsoft, Tommy Hilfiger, KIA, Pizza Hut and Co are making use of bots to support…
Source: chatbotsmagazine.com

Meet Microsoft's new chatbot, Zo: Now with (hopefully) 100% less Nazism - ExtremeTech: Microsoft is throwing its hack back

Meet Microsoft's new chatbot, Zo: Now with (hopefully) 100% less Nazism - ExtremeTech: Microsoft is throwing its hack back into the AI chatbot ring, this time with a new AI, dubbed Zo. Hopefully this one won't turn into a Nazi spambot within 24 hours of launch.
Source: extremetech.com

Spikes in search engine data predict when drugs will be recalled: An algorithm can predict drug recalls on the basis of

Spikes in search engine data predict when drugs will be recalled: An algorithm can predict drug recalls on the basis of internet searches made using Microsoft’s Bing, and might help identify faulty batches
Source: newscientist.com


Source: slashdot.org

Windows 10 now shows ads on the lock screen — here’s how to kill them | ExtremeTech: Microsoft has begun using the Windows

Windows 10 now shows ads on the lock screen — here’s how to kill them | ExtremeTech: Microsoft has begun using the Windows 10 lock screen to advertise content -- but while the game it chose is excellent, some people won't like the precedent this sets.
Source: extremetech.com

The rise of the robots Excellent read but of a gloomy dystopian future where robots and software take over manual tasks

The rise of the robots Excellent read but of a gloomy dystopian future where robots and software take over manual tasks (as they already have done) and also skilled labour displacing even highly skilled jobs in time. Healthcare might survive a little longer but physicians assistants empowered by...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector - Slashdot. "The new algorithm is dubbed SEAL (Simple

Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector - Slashdot. "The new algorithm is dubbed SEAL (Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library) and is based on homomorphic encryption"
Source: slashdot.org

Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads - Slashdot

Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org

As mobile changes the way we communicate, Microsoft Office has had its day: According to Microsoft, the future of work hinges

As mobile changes the way we communicate, Microsoft Office has had its day: According to Microsoft, the future of work hinges on the sorts of collaboration that come from using a package of software like Microsoft Office. This has been especially embodied in its latest version…
Source: theconversation.com

Developing a website in Comic Sans - a dyslexia-friendly site consistent with equality and diversity training. Thanks for

Developing a website in Comic Sans - a dyslexia-friendly site consistent with equality and diversity training. Thanks for the challenge Simon! Here is the work in progress. It turns out that Comic Sans is not entirely web friendly (who'd have thought) but the team at www.comicneue.com have sorted out...
Source: wikipedia.org

Microsoft thinks you’ll love Windows 10 so much, it downloads it for you — without asking | ExtremeTech: Microsoft is

Microsoft thinks you’ll love Windows 10 so much, it downloads it for you — without asking | ExtremeTech: Microsoft is so confident you'll upgrade to Windows 10, it's downloading it for you -- and possibly installing it, too.
Source: extremetech.com