8 months
Facebook got into hot water earlier this year for running a program that allowed minors to hand over their phone data in exchange or compensation. The firm has learned its lesson now and is now running an open market research prog...
by Surur
1 year
Way back in 2016 we wrote about a Microsoft Research project to attach a secondary screen to a smartphone, making for an e-Ink “Display Cover” that can be used for a wide variety of uses. It the time it appeared that t...
by Pradeep
1 year
Microsoft’s popular model-based machine learning framework Infer.NET is going open source. Infer.NET was first released a decade ago and since then there have been hundreds of papers published using the framework across a va...
by Pradeep
2 years
Researchers from Caltech and University of Southern California have published a new research paper discussing how Microsoft HoloLens can act as eyes for blind people. To restore vision of blind people, some approaches have been ex...
by Pradeep
2 years
A team of Microsoft researchers today announced that their new machine translation system can translate sentences of news articles from Chinese to English with the same quality and accuracy as a person. This is the first time a ma...
by Surur
3 years
Microsoft Research’s Advanced Technologies Lab recently showed off a research project called Project Prague that will allow app developers to include basic hand gesture support into their applications without much work. Th...
by Pradeep
3 years
To demonstrate Windows 10 is having a positive impact to customers’ bottom line, last year, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study of Windows 10. To continue to understand t...
by Asher Madan
3 years
According to the World Health Organization, fifteen million people suffer strokes around the world each year. While many do not survive this affliction, about five million individuals end up becoming permanently disabled. Stroke i...
by Pradeep
3 years
Microsoft Research this week announced a new academic program called Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant. This program will offer up to $20,000 for selected doctoral students for doing computing research at U.S. and Canadian uni...
by Pradeep
3 years
Microsoft today announced several new health care related initiatives and solutions to help health industry partners and organizations to use intelligent technology to improve the lives of people around the world. Healthcare NExT ...
by Pradeep
3 years
Bio Model Analyzer is a biological modelling tool that illustrates signalling pathways and determines cellular stabilization. This tool basically allows the researchers to quickly test many more possibilities than were previously ...