At Microsoft, we have been on a quest to advance AI beyond existing techniques, by taking a more holistic, human-centric approach to learning and understanding. As Chief Technology Officer of Azure AI Cognitive Services, I have been working with a team of amazing scientists and engineers to turn this quest into a reality. In my […]

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Microsoft today launched a new set of improved AI translation models that score up to 15 percent better than previous models.

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Did you know there is a type of compiler backdoor attack that is impossible to defend against? In this post I’ll show you how to implement such an attack in less than 100 lines of code.

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This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a small Linux distribution for ARM-based embedded devices(e.g. Raspberry Pi) using Buildroot. At the end of the article you will be able to run your own Linux system into a Raspberry Pi 3/4/ZeroW. What’s Buildroot? Buildroot is a set of tools that will help you to easily generate an embedded Linux distribution for your IoT device. This project is driven by the community and it’s fully open source.

Nvidia enters the CPU business in a big way

NVIDIA's recently announced Grace SUPERCHIP CPU platform which features 144 ARM cores has been compared to AMD's EPYC CPUs.

What can we learn from CDNs' edge development to benefit the design of our Fornax edge computing platform?

Mininet: An Instant Virtual Network on Your Laptop (or Other PC) Mininet creates a realistic virtual network, running real kernel, switch and …

Companies like Blizzard, EA, Unity and others use dedicated time-series databases to improve the performance and reliability of their games.

Sui is a blockchain that runs smart contracts built with Move, a programming language based on Rust and initially designed at Meta.

Free & Open Source Airtable alternative. Turns any SQL database into a smart spreadsheet. Supports MySQL, Postgres, SQL server, MariaDB & SQLite.

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A new "unobtrusive JavaScript framework" called Unpoly has emerged as a contender to Basecamp’s HTML over-the-wire framework, Hotwire.

There are a lot of things that any compute engine maker has to do if they want to compete in the datacenter, but perhaps the most important thing is to be

The National Security Agency (NSA) has issued guidelines on how to make Kubernetes environments more secure.

Authentication is a key part of any SaaS application today. Check out this comprehensive guide about the methods, protocols, and strategies.

Our ability to shrink transistors and the logic and memory blocks they make up is slowing down. Plus, chips have reached their size limits. Photolithography tools can only pattern an area of about 850 square millimeters, about the size of a top Nvidia GPU. This is why the industry is now looking up.

Using strong types, or putting units in names, is a small effort that can make a tremendous difference for code readability.

Our online relationships are almost all transactional. A purely transaction digital life can't feel as rich and satisfying as one based on interactional relationships. As more of our relationships are intermediated by technology, finding ways to support interactional relationships will allow us to live authentic digital lives.

Immutable databases offer history and audit to your database. Immutable databases are becoming a popular alternative to blockchain. No…

The team deciding your product's roadmap influences EVERYTHING about your company. Find out how different teams make decisions and how you can identify who drives the roadmap.