Microsoft also partnered with Qualcomm (qcom) on a new software developer kit to let coders build devices like cameras that can recognize objects.
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The initiative is being led by Microsoft Chief Accessibility Officer Jenny Lay-Flurrie but as GeekWire highlights, it also hits home for CEO Satya Nadella as his son Zain has cerebral palsy.
“DJI is the leader in commercial drone technology, and Microsoft Azure is the preferred cloud for commercial businesses”. The new figure was shared onstage at Microsoft’s Build developer conference being held May 7-9 in Seattle.
Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant is in every Window 10 device on the planet, which makes it odd that it’s not almost as popular as Amazon’s (AMZN) Alexa.
Microsoft has announced a new “Your Phone” app that enables a window into a user’s phone right from their PC.
Microsoft announced that the chips will be accessible for the first time on Monday at the Build Developer conference. And on the opening day of Build 2018, the company made its mission very clear: “Help every developer be an AI developer” across any Microsoft platform. It includes Microsoft’s “most advanced” time-of-flight sensor (used for 3D imaging) and some other new sensors.
The new Project Kinect for Azure reintroduces the sensor with a brand new goal; it is designed for AI developers to create tools on the cloud-based Azure platform. The Microsoft Launcher app will also support Timeline for cross device app launching.
How It Works: Using the Azure Machine Learning SDK for Python, customers will be able to specialize image-recognition tasks by retraining ResNet 50-based models with their data.
Microsoft is making Azure the best place to develop conversational AI experiences integrated with any agent. Expect Microsoft to characterize these as what it calls “the intelligent edge”, complementing the “intelligent cloud” of Azure and other enterprise services. One of them is through seed grants for developers that are looking into AI to build solutions that can help people with disabilities.
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Regarding the name change, Microsoft said that Windows Defender Security Center is now called Windows Security. Azure’s architecture developed with Intel FPGA and Intel® Xeon® processors enables innovation with accelerated AI on the user’s terms for custom software and hardware configuration.
