MIcrosoft faces backlash for hiring female dancers at GDC party Pixel Dynamo In a strange turn of events, Microsoft had decided to hire a group of scantily-clad, dancing schoolgirls as part of their Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2016 party—and this is at the very same event that the company held its annual “Women in Games” luncheon. This has, without fail, lead to a...
Microsoft launches AI chat bot, Tay.ai ZDNet Microsoft's Research and Bing teams have developed a chat bot, Tay.ai, aimed at 18 to 24 year olds, the 'dominant users of mobile social chat services in the U.S.' | ... ...
SandDance and Microsoft's Hands-off Policy Twit TV Mary Jo Foley and Fr. Robert Ballecer introduce their enterprise picks of the week: SandDance by Microsoft Research, and a certainhands-off policy in Germany. | For the full episode visit twit.tv/ww/458 | Bandwidth for TWiT Bits is provided by Cache...
Microsoft co-founder Allen names another science venture after himself The Verge Paul G. Allen, the Microsoft co-founder, has donated $100 million to launchThe Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group. This new program is meant to push the boundaries of science through grants to centers and individual researchers. | The group has establish...
Microsoft created a teen chatbot named Tay to learn how millennials talk Mashable Microsoft just introduced its latest A.I experiment and it's bizarre. | It's called Tay and it's an experimental chatbot meant to embody the personality of a teenage girl. Microsoft launched Tay on Kik, GroupMe and Twitter on Wednesday with the goal ...
Businesses get boost with Microsoft Dynamics suite Khaleej Times Microsoft is paving the way for productivity in the Middle East with the launch of the new Microsoft Dynamics AX and CRM Online 2016. | Speaking about the launch of the new suite, Karim Talhouk, Microsoft Business Solutions director for the Gulf regi...
Google Takes Aim At AWS, Microsoft On Cloud Front Information Week With its new top executive for Google Cloud Platform, Diane Greene, in place, Alphabet's subsidiary is planning to quadruple its cloud regions and ramp up hiring in these areas. ... ...
Critically Endangered Sumatran Rhino Seen In Indonesian Borneo For First Time In 40 Years IFL Science Scientists have had the first contact in over four decades with a Sumatran rhino in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. For a long time it was thought the animal was extinct in this region, until three years ago camera traps captured images of the rhino clinging on in the remote rainforest. Now conservationists have managed to safely catch ...
Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest has passed away aged 45 Digital Spy Phife Dawg from A Tribe Called Quest has reportedly passed away at the age of 45. The news was first announced on Twitter by DJ Chuck Chillout, who wrote: "RIP to phife dog of tribe called quest." His cause of death has yet to be confirmed. The rapper had been battling health problems for years, having developed diabetes in 1990....
