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Today, we’re pleased to announce the private preview of a new AI-powered project from Microsoft’s Healthcare NExT initiative which is designed to enable our healthcare partners to easily create intelligent and compliant healthcare virtual assistants…

Microsoft Research has poured its IoT efforts into Project Sopris, placing the IoT security focus to microcontrollers, while keeping costs down.

United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (UN IDPD) serves as an important reminder that globally there are over a billion people with a disability. This year’s theme, “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient society…

The Beyond Tomorrow Vision Study is published and a symposium has been assembled with industry experts, including Ivan Tashev, discussing the report findings and their perspectives on the future of product development.

Imagine, if a smartphone could detect when the driver is too tired and yawning, and send an alert to his supervisor. Or, if data transfer could be automatically scheduled in accordance with the strength of…

A team of artificial intelligence experts at Microsoft’s Cambridge, U.K., research lab has spent more than a decade looking at ways that AI could be used to make cancer treatment more targeted and effective.

Agriculture experts say the majority of farmers are now waking up to the value that technology and data can unlock.

The American Mathematical Society honored Henry Cohn with the 2018 Levi I. Conant Prize (opens in new tab) for his article, “A Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing,” which was published in the February 2017 issue of the…

Here’s how researchers are using cutting-edge technology to make Indian roads safer and smarter.

Today, we’re excited to introduce you to Steve. He is a father who is blind and managed a medical crisis involving his young daughter, with OneNote and Office Lens by his side to make printed…