All Senate pages now use encryption by default. The House is still working on it.
Source: CNET
Microsoft continues to put effort into improving and expanding Cortana’s universe, and new figures on active usage numbers announced at Build 2017 may key us into why Redmond is so focused on a seemingly humble digital assistant.
The post Microsoft says Cortana has 145 million users, reveals new hardware partners appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
Today at Build 2017, Microsoft announced the general availability release of its popular Visual Studio development environment for Mac OS — a big move toward backing up its Build 2017 promise to help developers succeed.
The post Microsoft takes wraps off Visual Studio for MacOS, now available to everyone appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
The Microsoft Teams developer platform, Microsoft Graph, and Office partner integrations all received announcements at Build 2017. The company is touting new ways for developers to tap into its base of 100 million Office 365 subscribers.
The post Microsoft adds third-party notifications to Teams activity feed as it bolsters Office 365 appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
Microsoft started BUILD 2017 off with a bang introducing new AI-powered services for developers to enhance the personal end-user experience. These include four new cognitive services, an enhancement to the Bot Framework, and more.
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Source: Digital trends
New research out today from MIT takes a big step toward making seamless transfers of knowledge between robots a reality. The post The Little Robot That Taught the Big Robot a Thing or Two appeared first on WIRED.
Source: Wired
The Lemon Internet Bar in Zhao Zhuang, China is open 24/7. The post Inside a Chinese Internet Cafe Where Gamers While Away Their Days appeared first on WIRED.
Source: Wired
Oakland, Calif.-based Ceres Imaging has raised $5 million in a Series A investment led by Romulus Capital. The startup uses cameras, sensors and software to pinpoint crop stress in the field for farmers, so that they can apply herbicides, pesticides and irrigation just where it’s needed. Ceres, like several other startups, started out with the notion to build a drone just for… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference this week and the company is kicking off the event with its inaugural keynote this morning. You can watch the live stream right here. The keynote is scheduled to start at 8 am on the West Coast, 11 am on the East Coast, 4 pm in London and 5 pm in Paris. This is a developer conference, so you shouldn’t expect new hardware devices.… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The USDA is currently reviewing whether to allow Cornell University and Oxitec to release tens of thousands of GM moths into a 10-acre site in New York. The post Oxitec Pioneered the GM Mosquito. Up Next? Moths, of Course appeared first on WIRED.
Source: Wired