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Cryptographic primitives, while extremely complex and difficult to implement, audit, and validate, are critical for security on the web. To ensure that NSS (Network Security Services, the cryptography library behind Firefox) abides by Mozilla’s principle…

The Covid-19 pandemic has created a global health crisis that is unprecedented in our lifetimes. It is hard to point to any other health crisis in recent history that has captivated the collective mindset of…

Around the world, 2020 has emerged as one of the most challenging years in many of our lifetimes. In six months, the world has endured multiple challenges, including a pandemic that has spurred a global…

Microsoft Research team Ziyu Wan, Bo Zhang, and more have developed a new AI-based algorithm for restoring old photos that suffer from severe degradation through a deep learning approach.

COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 120,000 people in the United States and debilitated millions more since arriving on our shores. While anyone can contract the virus, there is a pattern to who…

A new technique that synchronises the clocks of computers in under a billionth of a second can eliminate one of the hurdles for the deployment of all-optical networks, potentially leading to more efficient data centres,…

On Thursday, Microsoft Corp. and Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM) announced a five-year relationship centered on Microsoft’s Azure and analytical tools that will support new discoveries as part of JHM’s inHealth precision medicine initiative. The work…

In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and the University of Washington researchers propose an AI system that uses smartphone location data to forecast electrical load. They say their architecture, which takes…

Congratulations to Kenji Takeda for his contribution to winning “Team of the Year” at the Health Data Research UK One Institute Conference (opens in new tab). The award recognized the Cloud-based integration of patient data…