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In good faith: Can Microsoft be trusted with LinkedIn social data?
Following Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn Corp. for $26.2 billion one of Microsoft’s partners, harmon.ie, a company that develops mobile collaboration tools for Microsoft services, believes Microsoft and its partners stand to benefit considerably from “LinkedIn’s treasure trove of information”. But there are some obstacles Microsoft will have to overcome, harmon.ie asserts, and one of those ...
Using Microsoft’s Edge browser can save hours of laptop battery life
Microsoft wants to show what a profound difference a browser can make to the battery life of one’s laptop, notably how its own Edge browser is far less demanding than Google Chrome in terms of power consumption. In what Microsoft dubbed a Microsoft Edge Experiment, rival browsers including Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Opera ...
Microsoft has just got into the blossoming marijuana business
Microsoft and marijuana, not two words we might usually associate, although Microsoft founder Bill Gates is said to have smoked weed in college and been open about his support for the legalization of the plant in his own state. Microsoft’s relationship with cannabis just got much more real after a partnership was formed between the company ...
The first short film written entirely by a robot is total chaos, but has its moments
“In a future with mass unemployment young people are forced to sell blood.” This is the first line of the first movie written completely by artificial intelligence. It’s arguably the best line in the far-out film, and probably the only line that might resonate with people for being somewhat, if not apocalyptically, reasonable. The film, Sunspring, ...
World’s first high-tech flying hospital poised for take off
A recent collaboration between global technology companies and a non-profit humanitarian organization has led to the creation of a partly automated flying eye hospital which prevents, treats or cures blindness in places around the world where treatments can be inaccessible. Orbis International and Crestron Electronics, Inc. as well as other technology companies, have teamed-up to ...
Microsoft lights up E3 2016 with two new consoles, claims “the most powerful console ever built”
Microsoft did not let people down at this year’s E3 event following months of speculation as to what the company might announce. Microsoft’s Xbox chief Phil Spencer had said prior to the event that consumers were going to see something “really substantial” and that’s just what they got. In terms of substance, the biggest announcement ...
A smarter smartphone: Lenovo to release first phone with Google’s Tango augmented reality technology
Lenovo Group Ltd. is to release three new phones in the Phab line, the Phab 2, Phab 2 Plus and Phab 2 Pro. The last of which is the most exciting due to it being the first phone with Google’s Project Tango technology. The large 6.4-inch screen phones should hit the market around August or ...
Xbox One isn’t getting the TV DVR feature Microsoft promised, but it’s getting something big
Sometime this year Xbox One should have been getting DVR functionality, according to what Microsoft announced last year. Alas, Microsoft has scrapped the idea and instead has said it wants to concentrate on bigger things. A statement issued by Microsoft to The Verge concerning its sudden change of heart reads, “After careful consideration, we’ve decided ...
Design stylish digital content with Microsoft’s simple but effective Sprightly app
Do you remember a time when we all couldn’t be passable digital content designers? Those days are in the past, and now using a number of apps or websites just about anyone can put together a stylish looking flier, catalog, or a an e-card in a matter of minutes. With its Sprightly design app Microsoft ...
HPE’s The Machine gives Star Trek Beyond movie technology 250 years from now
HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) was given what might perhaps be a dream job: to come up with the technology used in the latest Star Trek movie, Star Trek Beyond. Based on present day tech, or technology that is likely to emerge or advance in a not too distant future, HPE said it would “boldly go ...