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Tech major Microsoft to unveil next generation of Windows in June
The announcement comes a week after the company's CEO Satya Nadella teased major upgrades to the PC operating system for developers and creators.
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Big Tech uses AI to arrest blindness among India's burgeoning diabetics
Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of blindness and vision loss in adults and tech giants such as Intel and Google are building AI-based innovations to address such problems
 "Big Tech uses AI to arrest blindness among India's burgeoning diabetics")
Microsoft Corp in talks to acquire Discord for more than $10 billion
Discord has been talking to potential buyers and software giant Microsoft is in the running, but no deal is imminent
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Microsoft rolls out recovery fix after thousands face access issues
Microsoft Corp said on Monday it was rolling out a fix worldwide to enable its services to recover after an update caused access issues for thousands of users, including those on workplace messaging
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Microsoft Corp to acquire Doom-owner ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion
Microsoft Corp said on Monday it would acquire ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion in cash, strengthening its Xbox video game offering with the studio behind smash hit titles Fallout and the Doom reboot.
Microsoft adds two Indian languages to its neural text-to-speech service
Neural TTS significantly reduces listening fatigue when users interact with AI systems with a natural-sounding speech that matches the stress patterns and intonation of human voices
Zoom says most service restored after US users hit by partial outage
Zoom's stock has risen more than eight-fold since its initial public offering last year and four-fold so far in 2020, but it fell as much as 5.4% in early Monday
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US wants to ban TikTok rather than force a sale: Internal ByteDance letter
The letter was sent only to ByteDance's Chinese employees after news that ByteDance was in talks to sell parts of TikTok to Microsoft Corp
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Wall Street slips on fears of economic pain due to rising Covid-19 cases
Netflix's shares fell 7.2% after it forecast slower-than-expected subscriber growth during the third quarter and weighed the most on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.
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Tech stocks lift Wall Street as worries over rising coronavirus cases mount
The World Health Organization reported a record rise in global coronavirus cases on Sunday, driving demand for perceived safe-havens, including gold and longer-term US Treasuries.
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S&P 500, Dow Jones slip ahead of Fed outlook; Nasdaq scales fresh high
The tech-heavy Nasdaq, by contrast, hit a record high for the fourth straight session, with gains for Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp driving rally
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Microsoft's Project Reunion to unify Win32, UWP apps development process
Project Reunion expands company's effort to make it easier to build a great Windows apps, the company announced during its Build 2020 conference
46% drop in hiring at Microsoft in April, only 3 jobs openings at LinkedIn
Google reportedly decided to freeze hiring for the rest of the year due to Covid-19 pandemic
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AI-powered Microsoft 365 with new productivity tools to replace Office 365
Built on the foundation of Office 365, the Microsoft 365 gets artificial intelligence (AI), rich content and templates, and cloud-powered experiences to empower people in various ways
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The Hollywood-inspired start-up with business tools that don't need coding
Set up in 2015, Gyana helps one create things by using GUI or conversational tools, and aims to make data science accessible even to non-techies
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Microsoft says two employees have been diagnosed with coronavirus
Microsoft had asked workers who can to do their jobs from home through March 25, and that guidance remains unchanged based on the new cases.
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At $993 bn, Amazon just a whisker away from touching $1 trn valuation again
Amazon has added about $119 billion in market value since the end of May
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People with autism are hot hires for artificial intelligence jobs
Companies are bringing in workers on the spectrum who can do repetitive tasks for hours or who excel at pattern recognition
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Microsoft's Cortana mistake
The software giant's digital assistant debuted before Amazon's Alexa, but is still struggling to find an audience
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Microsoft's India, US teams developing software to embed AI in tiny devices
Researchers are working to deploy machine-learning models onto resource-constrained devices
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