Orbbec has announced a suite of products developed in collaboration with Microsoft based on its indirect time-of-flight (iToF) depth-sensing technology that was brought to market with HoloLens 2.

AkzoNobel and Microsoft have teamed up to explore how quantum computing could help fast track the development of high-performance and more sustainable paints and coatings.

IoT sensors are being infused into just about everything, from industrial equipment to consumer devices, and increasingly these devices are connecting to the cloud. By 2020, Gartner predicts there will be more than 20 billion connected devices. In April 2018, Microsoft announced it is investing $5bn in IoT and the intelligent edge over the next four years. 

Researchers at Microsoft have developed Glabella, a wearable device that continuously and unobtrusively monitors heart rates at three sites on the wearer’s head. The glasses prototype incorporates optical sensors, processing, storage, and communication components, all integrated into the frame to passively collect physiological data about the user without the need for any interaction.

Pre-orders opened today for a new kind of gaming controller, Microsoft’s Adaptive Controller. Compatible with Xbox One and PC, the Adaptive Controller aims to give gamers who may not be able to reach all of the buttons and toggles on a traditional gaming controller the ability to access the same games.

Since the birth of home video game systems in the 1970’s, the controller has advanced and evolved just as much as the video games themselves. However, game controllers have always largely catered to players with two hands and normal mobility. To allow more users with limited mobility to enjoy gaming, tech giant Microsoft has introduced a new accessory for the Xbox game system, the Xbox Adaptive Controller.

Becoming obsessed with technology is very easy in today’s society, as it is the key enabler of today’s revolution, but the hard part of the transformation is cultural. It’s about putting the customer experience and their business outcomes at the centre of everything. That means realigning engineering, manufacturing and the supply chain around delivering a world-class sales and service experience. It means new thinking about...

Last month Microsoft talent partner Curo Talent launched a Surface Book 2 into space. Taking off from a specially selected site near Swindon under particularly difficult weather conditions, the Surface Book 2 travelled over 21 miles into the stratosphere before hurtling back down to earth. 

Microsoft has released an iPhone app for blind people and those with significantly decreased vision. Seeing AI, as the app is called, does its magic when the user points the smartphone’s camera at something and it reads out what it’s seeing. For example, pointing it at a person, it tries to identify if it’s someone you know, otherwise specifying basic characteristics of the person, such as gender, and whether they’re smili...

At Build, Microsoft’s annual developers conference, taking place last week, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich disclosed major advances in Microsoft’s hyperscale deployment of Intel field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). These advances have resulted in the industry’s fastest public cloud network, and new technology for acceleration of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that replicate “thinking” in a manner that&rsqu...

Steelcase and Microsoft have joined forces to explore the future of work, developing a range of technology enabled spaces designed to help organisations foster creative thinking and better collaboration. These spaces seamlessly integrate the best of Microsoft Surface devices with Steelcase architecture and furniture.

  Stryker, the company best known for orthopedic implants and devices, is also in the business of designing operating rooms. Planning an efficient surgical environment that can serve various needs has meant trying different configurations in real life, or on a small, flat computer screen.

CES 2017 hosted in Las Vegas, from 4th-8th January, will see Microsoft, NXP Semiconductors, IAV, and auto mobility partners Cubic Telecom, Esri and Swiss Re, showcasing its collective vision of safe and secure end-to-end mobility through a highly automated driving demonstration and experience.

  Released in November 2016 at a price of $99.99 each, Microsoft have introduced a radial peripheral to Microsoft’s Surface Studio. Bluetooth-powered and capacitive-touchscreen detectable for the Surface Studio, the Surface Dial enables easy access to shortcuts, controls, drawing tools, and more.

Microsoft has made Project Malmo available for novice to experienced programmers on GitHub via an open-source license. It's a platform that uses the world of Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced AI research. The system, which had until now only been open to a small group of computer scientists in private preview, is primarily designed to help researchers develop sophisticated, more general or AI that can do things like learn, hold conversat...

KIND Financial, the leader in technology for cannabis compliance, announced the launch of KIND Government Solutions with Microsoft to acquire government-facing contracts for seed to sale tracking. Microsoft selected KIND to participate in its newly created Microsoft Health and Human Services Pod for Managed Service Providers. The goal of this relationship is to leverage each company's resources to provide State, County, and Municipalities with pu...

Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence aren’t just improving the quality of information available to us — they’re also making it easier to interact with the devices we use to retrieve and manipulate the information. At ACM CHI 2016, the premiere conference on human-computer interaction, Microsoft will present research advances that could vastly improve user interaction in a number of ways and contribute to the ...

In the airy, loft-like Microsoft Research lab in New York City, five computer scientists are spending their days trying to get a Minecraft character to climb a hill. That may seem like a pretty simple job for some of the brightest minds in the field, until you consider this: The team is trying to train an artificial intelligence agent to learn how to do things like climb to the highest point in the virtual world, using the same types of resources...

Microsoft is using dogs to demonstrate its machine learning chops. In the latest display of the power of deep neural networks, the Microsoft Garage incubation lab released an iPhone app and web app called “Fetch!,” which identifies the breed of a dog based on a picture. Like the previous apps and services in the series, it’s powered by Microsoft’s Project Oxford artificial intelligence platform.

What if game day was no longer confined to a television screen, but covered a room and took over the coffee table? Microsoft has teamed with the NFL to demonstrate what might be possible with HoloLens, which the company hails as the world’s first fully untethered holographic computer.