Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Microsoft has ...

Microsoft is open-sourcing its cloud-compression algorithm and optimized hardware implementation for cloud storage. Microsoft is contributing that algorithm, known as ""=""> plus the associated ...

Microsoft may be gearing up for one of the boldest engineering transformations the software industry has seen in decades. A ...

Microsoft has tweaked the algorithm generating the browser choice screen that it is pushing out to European Union users as a result of the European Commission's findings in an antitrust case there.

If you use Twitter regularly, you must’ve come across celebrities as food tweet threads. Some examples are Rihanna as Indian food and Olly Alexander as cakes. The idea is to match the look and color ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

The amount of data that the big cloud computing providers now store is staggering, so it’s no surprise that most store all of this information as compressed data in some form or another — just like ...

Search engines today are more than just the dumb keyword matchers they used to be. You can ask a question—say, “How tall is the tower in Paris?”—and they’ll tell you that the Eiffel Tower is 324 ...

Quantum computers promise to be game-changers in fields where there are enormously complex calculations to be carried out. Hoping to use quantum computing to address one of humanity’s biggest problems ...

Microsoft has been upgrading its artificial intelligence abilities by adding what was described as an "algorithm of thoughts." The ending result reportedly gives the AI the ability to reason like a ...

A new AI training method is designed to boost efficiency and mimic human-like reasoning in large language models. Microsoft researchers claim the approach has the potential to be groundbreaking.

Shakira reacts as her team suffers a fate accurately predicted by Microsoft Bing. So far, so good for Microsoft’s foray into pop-culture predictions. By crunching data from social networks and the ...