Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS), two major rivals duking it out in the expanding market for cloud computing solutions, have found common ground on building deep learning software. On Oct. 12, the two technology giants unveiled Gluon, a new open source, deep learning tool that developers can use to build machine learning models with […]

Microsoft Ventures, the software giant’s venture fund for early-stage startups, is looking for four artificial intelligence (AI) startups across North America, Europe and Israel to share a total of $3.5 million in funding. To find them, the company is running a competition called Innovate.AI. “Through this global competition, we are asking startups creating or leveraging […]

At the SpiceWorld conference here in Austin, Texas, Spiceworks’ annual gathering of IT professionals, Microsoft technical fellow Jeffrey Snover a spent a couple sessions instructing attendees on how to get the most out of PowerShell and tell them about the tool future. Snover is the inventor of PowerShell and serves as chief architect for the […]

Accessing one’s calendar in the Outlook apps for iOS and Android is easy enough, but some features like the ability to manage and sync shared calendars are best left to the desktop client or browser-based application. That is, until now. Microsoft has added the ability to view and edit shared calendars in its Outlook mobile […]

Cortana is now a Skype contact, enabling users to chat with Microsoft’s virtual assistant technology as they would their friends, family and colleagues. Microsoft is currently rolling out a new Cortana in Skype feature for the iOS and Android versions of the application. Among the new functionality is the ability to have a chat with […]

AI for Earth, a program that offers access to Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and cloud resources to researchers and organizations that are addressing environmental challenges, is now turning its attention to the world’s oceans. When AI for Earth was first announced in July, its focus was on agriculture, biodiversity, climate change and water scarcity. […]

Microsoft has finally decided to pull the plug on Windows 10 Mobile, according to a couple of tweets from Joe Belfiore, corporate vice president of Windows 10 at Microsoft. On Sunday, Oct. 8, the Microsoft executive admitted on Twitter that Microsoft is no longer developing new features for the mobile operating system, nor was the […]

Microsoft is combining philanthropy, educational outreach and TV white spaces technology to connect remote, non-wired areas, with the goal of enabling them to participate more fully in the digital economy. The company unveiled a new civic initiative called TechSpark, which the software giant hopes will help under served rural communities enjoy the economic spoils that information technologies […]

Java developers can now use Azure Functions, Microsoft’s serverless computing platform, to build and deploy applications on the Redmond, Wash. software marker’s cloud. Serverless computing is gaining ground among businesses and the world’s major cloud providers, but contrary to the image the term conjures up, servers are still very much involved in serverless applications. What’s […]

Power BI, Microsoft’scloud-enabled business intelligence (BI) software and data visualization software suite, already uses artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, machine learning in particular, to help users gain more insights from their business information and ask the questions they didn’t even know to ask. Now, to help users make the most of the software’s extensibility in a […]