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Microsoft planning voice cloning tool for Teams meetings
Microsoft has announced plans to introduce voice cloning for Teams, allowing users to simulate their voices in multiple languages during meetings.
21 November 2024, 02:31 AM
Microsoft Teams to introduce real-time language interpreter
Microsoft Teams is set to launch a real-time AI-powered language interpreter, allowing participants to speak or listen in their preferred language during meetings, according to a recent blog post by Microsoft.
20 November 2024, 02:13 AM
NASA and Microsoft to launch AI-based Earth Copilot
NASA has teamed up with Microsoft to create Earth Copilot, an AI tool designed to make it easier for people to access and understand the large amount of Earth Science data NASA collects from its satellites.
17 November 2024, 11:29 AM
Sebastian Bubeck, Microsoft GenAI VP, to join OpenAI
Sebastien Bubeck, Microsoft's Vice President of GenAI, is leaving the company to join OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, according to a recent statement by Microsoft.
15 October 2024, 06:27 AM
Neither precedent nor Trump can save Big Tech
After losing a jury trial against game store Epic Games in December, a judge has now ruled that Google must open a key piece of its Android smartphone operating system
9 October 2024, 11:25 AM
AI's next feat will be its descent from the cloud
Google owner Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram and Facebook, are forecast to spend a combined $160 billion in capital expenditures next year,
2 October 2024, 11:19 AM
Microsoft plans to open Three Mile Island nuclear power plant for AI data centre
To meet the growing energy demands of its artificial intelligence (AI) data centres, Microsoft has signed a 20 year deal to bring the inactive Three Mile Island nuclear power plant back online, according to a recent power purchase agreement by Constellation Energy, the current owner of the Three Mile Island facility.
21 September 2024, 02:24 AM
Microsoft launches $60 bln share buyback program
Microsoft recently announced that its board has approved a new share buyback program valued at up to $60 billion. In addition, the company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.83 per share, marking a 10% increase over the previous quarter’s dividend.
17 September 2024, 11:54 AM
Microsoft to fire 650 Xbox employees: report
Microsoft has announced plans to lay off 650 employees from its Xbox division, according to a recent report by Bloomberg News. This marks the third round of layoffs by the company this year, states the report.
12 September 2024, 11:19 AM
Microsoft hosts summit to discuss CrowdStrike outage
Microsoft recently held a cybersecurity summit to discuss ways to improve security, following the global IT outage in July caused by a faulty software update from CrowdStrike.
11 September 2024, 13:26 PM
Windows 11 update will boost performance of Zen 5 CPUs: AMD
AMD has recently announced that Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 11 update, version 24H2, will enhance the performance of its recently launched Zen 5 CPUs.
23 August 2024, 12:27 PM
Microsoft update breaks Linux on dual-boot systems
Microsoft's latest security update has inadvertently caused significant disruption for users who run both Windows and Linux on the same machine. The update, which was designed to address a two-year-old vulnerability in the GRUB boot loader—a critical piece of software used by many Linux systems—has led to widespread issues with Linux installations failing to boot.
21 August 2024, 11:10 AM
Microsoft launches unified Teams app for both personal and work use
Microsoft has just launched a unified Teams app that supports both personal and work accounts on Windows 11, Windows 10, and Mac. This new version eliminates the need for separate apps, which previously confused users who had to juggle between 'Microsoft Teams (free)' for personal use and 'Microsoft Teams (work or school)' for professional and educational purposes.
21 August 2024, 10:26 AM
Windows 11 update to remove FAT32 partition size limit after nearly 3 decades
Microsoft is set to remove the 32GB size limit for FAT32 partitions in Windows 11, a restriction that has been in place for nearly 30 years.
19 August 2024, 03:30 AM
SteamOS may challenge Windows in handheld gaming
Valve, the video game company behind the popular digital distribution platform Steam, has announced plans to extend support for its custom operating system, SteamOS, to rival handheld devices such as Asus' ROG Ally.
17 August 2024, 13:14 PM
Microsoft must pay to search Reddit: CEO Steve Huffman
Microsoft must pay Reddit to search the platform for data to train its AI models, says Reddit CEO Steve Huffman in a recent statement. Huffman, who has already struck deals with OpenAI and Google to allow the use of Reddit data for AI training, now insists that Microsoft follow suit.
1 August 2024, 14:23 PM
Microsoft leaves OpenAI board
Microsoft has decided to leave its board observer seat at OpenAI, a position that has attracted regulatory scrutiny in both the United States and Europe. The company stated that this move was prompted by significant improvements in OpenAI's governance over the past eight months, rendering the observer seat unnecessary.
10 July 2024, 07:55 AM
Microsoft to offer Apple devices to employees in China
The absence of Android services is the reason of taking such move
9 July 2024, 11:22 AM
Nvidia eclipses Microsoft as world's most valuable company
Nvidia's stunning surge in market value over the past year has become emblematic of a Wall Street frenzy driven by optimism about emerging AI technology.
19 June 2024, 01:39 AM
Microsoft announces $2.2 bn AI, cloud investment in Malaysia
Microsoft pledged a $2.2 billion investment in artificial intelligence and cloud computing in Malaysia on Thursday to help develop the country's AI infrastructure
2 May 2024, 06:53 AM