Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. At its Ignite 2021 conference today, Microsoft announced Loop, a new app that combines a “flexible canvas” with components that sync across Microsoft 365 services to help teams communicate and work remotely together. Built on Microsoft’s Fluid […]
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Microsoft taps AI techniques to bring Translator to 100 languages
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Today, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Translator, its AI-powered text translation service, now supports more than 100 different languages and dialects. With the addition of 12 new languages including Georgian, Macedonian, Tibetan, and Uyghur, Microsoft claims that Translator […]
Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Microsoft and Nvidia today announced that they trained what they claim is the largest and most capable AI-powered language model to date: Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation (MT-NLP). The successor to the companies’ Turing NLG 17B and Megatron-LM models, MT-NLP contains […]
'Microsoft Flight Simulator' is Finally Getting VR Controller Support, Coming in Mid-November – Road to VR
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020) features PC VR headset support, although it’s notably missing the ability to use VR motion controllers. Now developer Asobo has signaled that […]
Microsoft Flight Simulator will digitize and release historic aircraft for free
Asobo Studio and Xbox Game Studios are working to add dozens of historic aircraft to Microsoft Flight Simulator. Called the Local Legends series, it will kick off with the rare three-engined Junkers Ju 52 on Sept. 7. The Ju 52 is a transport plane developed in the 1930s. Over its operational life, the trimotor has […]
Microsoft doubles down on cybersecurity with CloudKnox acquisition
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Microsoft today announced that it acquired CloudKnox Security, a platform designed to protect resources and identities across multicloud and hybrid cloud environments. With the purchase, the terms of which weren’t disclosed, Microsoft says that Azure customers will be able to right-size permissions and […]
Xbox Game Pass adds Microsoft Flight Simulator, Blinx: The Time Sweeper in July
Xbox Game Pass subscribers can take to the skies with the Xbox Series X release of Microsoft Flight Simulator on July 27, relive the dogfighting of Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, or experience a journey through time with Xbox classic Blinx: The Time Sweeper on day earlier. All three games are coming to Game […]
Microsoft launches Cloud for Sustainability to help companies track emissions
Join executive leaders at the Conversational AI & Intelligent AI Assistants Summit, presented by Five9. Watch now! At its Inspire 2021 conference today, Microsoft announced Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, a new service in preview designed to help companies measure and manage their carbon emissions by setting sustainability goals. It includes software-as-a-service offerings that can discover […]
Microsoft integrates Dynamics 365 and Teams, unveils security services
Join executive leaders at the Conversational AI & Intelligent AI Assistants Summit, presented by Five9. Watch now! Microsoft today announced updates across its Microsoft 365 portfolio, which spans Microsoft Viva, Dynamics 365, Teams, and more. Beginning this week, Dynamics 365 and Teams are more closely integrated, and partner features with Viva are debuting alongside security […]
Housemarque had offers from companies other than Sony – but was it Microsoft?
Sony’s recent purchase of Returnal developer Housemarque was actually a bidding war against several other publishers. The acquisition of Returnal and Super Stardust developer Housemarque was broadly welcomed by everyone, with the only major comment being why Sony didn’t buy them before – since the majority of their games have always been PlayStation exclusives. It […]