The Army Wants It but Do Soldiers?
The Integrated Visual Augmented System (IVAS) is a piece of gear the US Army has been working on with Microsoft. Think virtual reality for the ground pounding soldier in the [Read More]
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“Clippy” Returns As An Emoji
ABC30 Clippy hasn’t had an easy life. Microsoft’s iconic but polarizing virtual assistant first appeared in Windows 97 as a small paperclip to help Microsoft Office users. It was given [Read More]
Paul Pelosi Is A Heck Of An Inside Trader
Fox News House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s husband purchased millions of dollars worth of Microsoft and Roblox shares last month, new financial disclosures form reveal. Paul Pelosi exercised call options and paid $1.95 million [Read More]
Microsoft Developing Means To Monitor Staff Meetings And Rate Participants Nonverbal Communication
BBC Technology giant Microsoft has filed a patent for a system to monitor employees’ body language and facial expressions during work meetings and give the events a “quality score”. A [Read More]
“Dear Microsoft, You have a problem. A very big problem.”
I am getting thoroughly sick and tired of hearing from “Steve from Microsoft” calling me at all hours, with his Indian accent and repetitive line of bullsh!t… The rant is here
Microsoft Reports Significant Increase in FISA Orders Last Year
In order to avoid the consumer backlash from their collusion with government data collectors, Microsoft produces a regular “transparence” report that provides some insight into the FISA orders to which they must [Read More]
Tests From Microsoft Show How Chrome Drains Your Battery
MentalFloss: More people surf the web with Google Chrome than any other browser. A recent report showed that nearly 42 percent of desktop users opt for it—more than Internet Explorer [Read More]
MICROSOFT IS PARTNERING WITH A WEED STARTUP
This explains their latest Windows Operating Systems. [Digital Trends] It may not be legal across the country yet, but if corporate partnerships are any indication, marijuana is certainly becoming more [Read More]
Tay Learns From Twitter
Microsoft rolled out an AI entity on Twitter yesterday, called Tay, and was forced to withdraw it soon after. Designed to pick up new words and expressions by interacting with [Read More]