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A few years ago, when my daughter was only 5, we walked down the street after going to see a play at the Angel Theatre in London, looking for a place to get a bite.…

Microsoft Soundscape encourages you to wander. Unlike step-by-step navigation tools, the app never tells you where to go or what to do. In the same way the smell of baking bread might help you discover…

Victor Bahl, distinguished scientist and director of mobile and networking research at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, Washington, received the 2018 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award (opens in new tab) for contributions to broadband wireless…

Some months ago, Glen Weyl – a principal researcher at Microsoft Research with a liking for nineteenth-century political economics – noticed that someone had been tweeting about him. A guy called Vitalik Buterin had posted…

Melissa Boone, Tracey Fuller, Jerome Hagen of Xbox Research share their learnings about the psychological, situational, and structural reasons behind why bad experiences are underreported.

Microsoft sunk the 40-foot long vessel off the coast of Scotland. The data center contains 12 racks of computers with a total of 864 servers. Microsoft said it can hold data and process information for…

All around us, a new generation of technology is changing all of our lives. From the mundane but useful, like the ubiquity of satnavs that stop family arguments and warn us of traffic jams, to…

Microsoft is testing a shipping-container-sized datacenter that will provide cloud services from the bottom of the ocean. The years-long ‘Project Natick’ effort recently moved into its second phase of development, with a prototype deployed to…

Una ingeniera española en Microsoft Research: Mar González nos cuenta su trabajo con las HoloLens térmicas y la realidad virtual

When we started AI for Earth, we had one simple but huge ambition – to fundamentally transform the way we, as a society, monitor, model and manage Earth’s natural resources. That transformation will ultimately require…