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At the Accelerate Your Insights event last week, Satya Nadella introduced the new Microsoft Analytics Platform System as Microsoft’s solution for delivering “Big Data in a box.” The SQL Server Blog shares more details about how the program works, and also a video, shared here, to explain some of the basics.

The content features two new arena mode round-to-round maps in “Invictus” and “Barbarous,” and a survival map called “Island.” Players will also be able to access two new gladiator skins for their combatants, both taken from “Ryse: Son of Rome’s” single-player campaign: Glott the barbarian chief, and “Ryse” protagonist Marius Titus.

Can you use a dose of stress alleviating happiness? Then check out Thursday’s Bing home page. When spring hits the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), in northeastern Alaska, it’s time for polar bear cubs to plunge in and practice their swimming skills.

The second annual International Women’s Hackathon, which begins Friday and runs through April 27, provides an environment to explore computing and is designed to encourage university women worldwide to become technological innovators and help solve global-scale problems.

ID@Xbox is committed to helping independent developers bring their vision to Xbox One and now, developers can begin using Unreal Engine 4 for creating games.

The Indie Game Spotlight is a one-stop shop in the Windows Phone Store that shows off new games from a growing community of independent developers.

These provide a cumulative package of fixes for each System Center component and are available from Microsoft Update. New features include: supporting backup and recovery of Windows 2003 servers and protection of SQL AlwaysOn with Clustering.