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The Microsoft BizSpark Show, a startup TV chat show featuring host Douglas Crets interviewing leading entrepreneurs, investors and innovators from around the world, has picked up more than 9,000 followers in its first few months.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates covered a lot of ground in his keynote address Monday at the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, including childhood disease and death, biological and nuclear terrorism, and nation-state war.

Microsoft released a new case study, “Secure Software Development Trends in the Oil & Gas Sectors.” The study takes a close look at application security in the oil and gas industry and discusses how a holistic approach to software development can help mitigate many of the risks these organizations face.

In his keynote address Monday at the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates talked about how far computing has come since 1975, when his vision included “A computer on every desk in every home.” Now, he said, it’s not just one computer but also those in your pocket, and other mobile devices.

Prepare to be blown away by 4k – and by Windows 8.1’s consideration for the new high-DPI displays. A high-resolution horizontal display, 4k refers to its 4,000-pixels, and 4k products such as Sharp’s 32-inch PN-K321 4K Ultra-HD display are now hitting the US marketplace.

Fans of “Angry Birds Star Wars” now have a Windows Phone 8 update that will enhance their rebel birds’ pursuit of the Empire’s evil Pigtroopers. Those familiar with the “Star Wars” universe might recognize some of the storyline from “The Empire Strikes Back,” in the introduction of a new character, Lando Bird, who joins the rebellion – after betraying his old friend Han Solo.

At the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, which brought more than 400 elite academics to Redmond, some are sharing innovative projects including the Sign Language Recognition and Translation with Kinect project. This collaboration between researchers from Microsoft Research Asia and colleagues from the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) explores how Kinect’s body-tracking abilities can be applied to the problem of sign-language recognition.