Microsoft has joined a UK-wide group that aims to enable older adults to remain in their own home and reduce the country’s £20 billion annual social care bill. The technology company has teamed up with the Agile Ageing Alliance (AAA), a social business made up of more than 600 private … Read more »
Mixed reality. Virtual reality. Augmented reality. What’s the difference, and how will blending the physical and digital worlds empower you to do things that were previously impossible? Most importantly, how will all this affect our trousers? Learn all this and more on episode three of the Story Labs animated series … Read more »
The BBC has worked with Microsoft to create an experimental version of iPlayer that lets viewers talk to their television and find their favourite programmes. The experimental version of the popular service, which allows people to watch BBC television shows and listen to the radio via the internet, uses artificial … Read more »
Microsoft has laid out its vision for AI (artificial intelligence), which puts people at the heart of intelligent technology to empower them to achieve great things. The company is dedicated to democratizing AI for every person and organisation, making it more accessible and valuable to everyone, and for the past … Read more »
Microsoft’s vision for AI (artificial intelligence) is about people. It’s about amplifying human ingenuity through intelligent technology that will reason with, understand and interact with people and, together with people, help us solve some of society’s most fundamental challenges. This was the message shared earlier today at an event in … Read more »
Robots could soon learn from each other and work together to complete tasks such as rescuing people from hostile environments, researchers at Oxford University have said. Humans currently program bots to act in a certain way and perform specific jobs, such as building cars in a factory, but the artificial … Read more »
Financial companies that want to digitally transform how they work can now use artificial intelligence and machine learning to oversee and accurately measure the change. London-based GainX has teamed up with Microsoft to offer a platform that allows executives at banks and other financial firms to monitor innovation plans, investment, … Read more »
The technology sector needs men and women who have passion and energy as well as digital skills, the head of Microsoft UK has told schoolgirls. Cindy Rose spoke to hundreds of students at Microsoft’s UK headquarters as part of a DigiGirlz event, which aims to encourage more young women to … Read more »
Robots will not replace every worker and their use in the workplace will lead to more jobs for people who are creative, according to a company that aims to predict the future. Artificial intelligence (AI) will operate alongside humans to “take away the grind” from work, enabling people to be … Read more »
As it’s January, you’re probably focused on two things: keeping your New Year’s Resolutions, and wondering what the next 12 months will bring. This month is a good time to look forward. January is the namesake of Janus (Roman god of transitions), whose two faces look ahead to the future … Read more »
Research has revealed that nearly half of UK bosses believe they have to embrace digital transformation or see their company fail within the next five years. However, while 44% of business managers understand that the sudden shift to a more digital society will require changes in how they work in … Read more »
By Robin Lester Data is more relevant today than it has ever been. Data flows though industry, it is the life blood that connects businesses, people and machines to humans. It powers the gears of industry, destroying geographic boundaries with communication systems and, with the internet, creates a sea of … Read more »
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