As the gaming industry transforms from a device-centric to player-centric form of entertainment, Microsoft announced plans today to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, one ...

EXETER, United Kingdom – Even though the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, had been preparing to replace its latest supercomputer for several years, it still felt like a momentous ...

Employees trying to answer questions as part of their jobs, researchers wading through medical records, developers analyzing client needs – everybody wants information at their fingertips. AI has made ...

Microsoft researchers have published a paper in Nature that quantifies for the first time how much energy and water are consumed and greenhouse gas emissions are produced by four datacenter cooling ...

TOKYO, Japan – On a small percentage of flights, despite everyone’s best intentions, something unplanned happens. A passenger gets sick or a flight has a long delay. After the cabin attendant attends ...

SAINT-PAUL-LEZ-DURANCE, France – Set in a scrubby forest of pine, oak and aromatic brush in Provence, the world’s largest nuclear fusion plant is under construction. Here, 2,000 scientists, physicists ...

The threat landscape is the most complex in history. The speed, scale and sophistication of bad actors is alarming. In just one year the number of threat actors tracked by Microsoft jumped from 300 to ...

Institut Curie has been at the forefront of cancer work since it was founded by Marie Curie a century ago. Now they continue to adopt the latest technologies, in this case AI, to make the most ...

Veterinarians are spending more time with pets and less time typing notes. Factory workers are “talking” to their machines to diagnose problems faster. Employees in all sorts of roles and industries ...

People have always looked for patterns to explain the universe and to predict the future. “Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” is an adage predicting the weather.

Adriemilly Rigo wasn’t feeling well. “To tell you the truth, I was very sedentary, I didn’t practice sports much, and I didn’t take care of myself very well,” she says. She had gained weight, felt ...

In the battle to conserve water, leaking pipes form an insidious enemy, accounting for average losses of 30 percent – but in some localities as much as 70 percent – of piped drinking water across the ...