Software maker Microsoft reported strong third-quarter earnings on Thursday, led in part by its AI technology and cloud businesses, it said in a statement. Are self-driving cars safe enough yet? Microsoft’s chief financial officer Amy Hood said that for the quarter Microsoft Cloud revenue, which includes commercial and consumer products, was “driven by strong execution …
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is confident that Google will find a way to make money selling access to generative AI tools. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says his company is already doing it. Both companies reported better-than-expected quarterly sales and profit on Thursday. And the stock prices of both soared on the results, with Alphabet further …
(Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. and Google owner Alphabet Inc. sent a clear message to investors on Thursday: Our spending on artificial intelligence and cloud computing is paying off. Most Read from Bloomberg The companies trounced Wall Street estimates with their latest quarterly results, lifted by a surge in cloud revenue — fueled in part by …
Microsoft Just two weeks after rolling out a preview build to Windows Insiders, Microsoft is pushing out an update to Windows 11 that adds advertisements to the Start menu. Build KB5036980, which is now slowly rolling out to the wider Windows 11 user base, includes recommendations in the Start menu, and they sneakily sit beside …
Premium and high-end Virtual Reality headset maker Pimax was one of the first companies to deliver a 4K VR headset, and later this year, it’s set to launch one of the most impressive PCVR headsets to date. 6 VIEW GALLERY – 6 IMAGES With a per-eye resolution of 3840 x 3840 (which is more than …
Nvidia is the Taylor Swift of tech companies. Its AI customers shell out $40,000 for advanced chips and sometimes wait months for the company’s tech, remaining loyal even as competing alternatives debut. That devotion comes from Nvidia being the biggest AI chipmaker game in town. But there are also major technical reasons that keep users …
Blocked from operating and expanding in China, leading American computing and software companies have shifted their focus to Japan, reinforcing a longstanding partnership that is accelerating the recovery of Japan’s technological competitiveness. American tech giants Nvidia, Microsoft and Oracle have all recently announced new investments in data centers and related services in Japan. They have …
Microsoft Research Asia has unveiled a new experimental AI tool called VASA-1 that can take a still image of a person — or the drawing of one — and an existing audio file to create a lifelike talking face out of them in real time. It has the ability to generate facial expressions and head …
Advances in quantum error correction are needed to enable quantum computing to surpass classical … [+] supercomputers. Pixabay Microsoft and Quantinuum quantum computing researchers just announced a major advance in error-rate reduction using a technique called qubit virtualization. This method combines Quantinuum’s high-precision H-2 ion-trap quantum computer with Microsoft’s syndrome extraction methodology. This breakthrough sets …
The Plaud Note Voice Recorder Record and transcribe your conversations on the same credit card–size device … It’s self-evident that the gadgetry of the past 30 years or so has made both work and social life immeasurably easier. Explain to a Gen Z–er that study or work tasks they do in seconds once took a …