Microsoft’s annual gathering of technology leaders, Microsoft Ignite, kicked off this morning in Orlando. At the conference, the company unveiled a number of new features to its offerings, as well as entirely new offerings designed to better suit the needs of its customers. Announcements included: Microsoft 365 Microsoft is making a number of improvements to … continue reading
Qt created a QML viewer that runs on web browsers, and the company said that the actual performance of the application is indistinguishable from the desktop version. The Qt Design Viewer runs on Android and iOS providing users a simple way to test your their designs on those platforms. Users can also generate a resource … continue reading
Microsoft announced that it acquired Mover, a provider of cloud file migration, making it easier to migrate files to Microsoft 365. The company explained the acquisition will add new options to support cloud file migrations including FastTrack, offerings from Microsoft partners; and the SharePoint Migration Tool for migrating content from on-premise SharePoint sites and file … continue reading
TopCoder, a Wipro company, announced that it is adding new data science and AI features to its network and on-demand digital coder talent platform. This includes native GPU support and the ability to develop advanced analytic solutions with any tool, library or cloud application service. “Topcoder is a bridge between IT talent and the enterprises … continue reading
Microsoft announced that it is offering a grant to ObjectiveEd, the makers of the Braille Tutor app, which incorporates AI-based speech recognition to help students practice reading Braille with personalized learning plans. The grant is part of Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility program to help people using AI-powered technology. The Braille Tutor app was created because … continue reading
Microsoft announced the alpha release of its open-source, portable, event-driven runtime called Dapr. The aim is to make it easier for developers to build microservice applications. According to the company, microservices benefits of scalability, loose service coupling and independent deployments come at the expense of increased complexity of distributed systems. In addition, writing an application … continue reading
When the ransomware NotPetya hit in June 2017, the results were devastating. A variant of the widespread Petya ransomware, NotPetya affected several large companies from a variety of different countries, according to Kaspersky Labs, who initially named the variant. After this devastating global cyberattack, Microsoft began conducting research into why customers weren’t practicing proper cybersecurity … continue reading
When Samsung first released its foldable phone model earlier this year, things didn’t go as planned. Users reported that the top layer of the screen, which looked like a screen protector, peeled off easily, damaging the display. Even after extensive testing by robots, Samsung had failed to test what use would actually look like when … continue reading
Microsoft announced the TypeScript 3.7 beta, introducing new features and bug fixes. The new features include optional chaining, which allows users to write code where they can immediately stop running some expressions if they run into a ‘null’ or ‘undefined.’ It also introduces nullish coalescing, which can be thought of as the ‘??’ operator – … continue reading
Researchers from Microsoft and Cisco Talos have found a new fileless malware strain dubbed Nodersok by Microsoft or Divergent by Talos. The malware leverages the popular Node.js framework (which has not often been used for such attacks) used by many Web applications and WinDivert, a network packet-capture and manipulation utility, to turn the systems into … continue reading
Today, during the virtual summit .NET Conf, Microsoft announced the availability of its updated cross-platform framework .NET Core 3.0. This release is packed with improvements, new features and advanced support. The biggest changes in 3.0 include: .NET Core 3.0 has already been battle-tested and will soon be deploying on large workloads Performance has been enhanced … continue reading
The Microsoft Visual C++ compiler and libraries (MSVC) team announced this week that it would be releasing its implementation of the C++ Standard Library (STL) into open source. The project will include all product source code, a CMake build system, and a README for more information. “Working on the STL in GitHub will allow our … continue reading
