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Microsoft Reveals Prototype Augmented Reality Glasses
May 23, 2017Microsoft Research is developing augmented reality glasses that will offer vision correction, among other features. When Microsoft announced HoloLens in 2015, it committed itself to pushing AR into the mainstream. Now, the company has ...
Tags: Microsoft, reality glasses
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Heart Rate Data Is Measured Using an EKG Sensor
Dec 20, 2013Engineers at Microsoft Research are taking on the world of weight management with a bra designed to measure heart and skin activity to gauge stress levels. When the device detects high stress levels, it offers advice via a smartphone app to ...
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Toyota Motor Unveiled Its New Driver Awareness Research Vehicle
Nov 22, 2013Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor has unveiled its new driver awareness research vehicle (DAR-V) at the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show. Developed in partnership with Microsoft Research, the DAR-V will help reduce driver distractions before ...
Tags: Toyota, Research Vehicle
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Bill Gates Took Attendees at a Company-Hosted Research Conference
Jul 18, 2013Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Monday briefly took attendees at a company-hosted research conference back decades to the failure of Microsoft Bob and the loathed 'Clippy' to talk about opportunities in pre-emptively helping technology ...
Tags: Computer Products, Bill Gates, Microsoft
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RDMS Promises to Bring Immense Performance Gains to Transactional Processing Systems
Jun 5, 2013The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a new in-memory OLTP engine, one built ...
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Government to Provide Funding for Improving The Teaching of Computer Science in Schools
Apr 26, 2013Technology firms including Facebook and Microsoft have welcomed government plans to provide funding for improving the teaching of computer science in schools. Education minister Elizabeth Truss announced £2m will be set aside to ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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To See What Facebook Has Become, Look No Further Than The Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer
Apr 7, 2013To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then ...
Tags: Facebook, social network
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Smart Data Science: Harnessing Data for Intelligent Decision-Making
Apr 1, 2013The fourth annual Software Experts Summit, "Smart Data Science: Harnessing Data for Intelligent Decision-Making," will be held on July 17 at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, and feature leading experts from around the world. Sponsored by ...
Tags: IEEE Computer Society, Software Experts Summit, company news
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Facebook Likes Can Reveal a Lot More Than You Think
Mar 12, 2013ThoseE Facebook 'likes' can reveal a lot more than you think. Research shows patterns from these Facebook preferences can provide surprisingly accurate estimates of the user's race, age, IQ, sexuality and other personal information. The ...
Tags: Facebook, Facebook data, Facebook users
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FCC Remains Focused on Rapidly Expanding Spectrum for Licensed and Unlicensed Use
Mar 11, 2013The Federal Communications Commission remains focused on rapidly expanding spectrum for licensed and unlicensed use, and encouraging both research and products that will let it be used more efficiently, according to the commission's boss. ...
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Individuals' Personal Data Needs to Be Monetised
Mar 6, 2013Individuals' personal data needs to be monetised if web service business models are to be sustained, otherwise we risk coming against an industry-wide "brick wall", computer scientist and Microsoft Research "scholar at large" Jaron Lanier ...
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Samsung Electronics Showed Some of Its Prototype Flexible Displays at CES
Jan 9, 2013Flexible OLEDs that can be rolled up or wrapped around the sides of smartphones are getting closer to reality.Samsung Electronics showed some of its prototype flexible displays at CES Wednesday and launched a new brand name for them,Youm. ...
Tags: Samsung, Flexible OLEDs, 'Youm'smartphone displays, Microsoft, IllumiRoom
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Craig Mundie Has Left His Role as He Winds Down Before Retirement
Jan 5, 2013Craig Mundie has left his role as Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer to become senior adviser to the CEO, as he winds down before retirement. Mundie had led strategy since founder Bill Gates stepped down from full-time work ...
Tags: Craig Mundie, Microsoft, CEO, retirement
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Backcountry Navigator PRO Offers Map Choices for The Locations That Interest You
Dec 24, 2012CAMAS, WA, August 23, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- CritterMap Software, maker of the Android GPS App BackCountry Navigator, brings you a chance to explore your world beyond the limits of roads and cell coverage. Wherever you're going, ...
Tags: Navigator Software, Android, GPS, CritterMap Software
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MP Real Estate Have Secured a Sale of The Platinum Building on St John&Rsquo
Dec 19, 2012Cambridge, England, 14 December 2012--MP Real Estate, acting on behalf of Ignis Asset Management, have secured a sale of The Platinum Building on St John’s Innovation Park, Cambridge, to St John’s College, Cambridge for ...
Tags: MP, Real Estate, Platinum Building, Construction Decoration