Cloud and edge computing are coming together as never before, leading to huge opportunities for developers and organizations around the world. Digital twins, mixed reality, and autonomous systems are at the core of a massive wave of innovation from which our customers already benefit. From the outside, it’s not always apparent how this technology converges […]
Archives for May 2021
Power your business applications data with analytical and predictive insights
Successful digital transformation requires eliminating unnecessary barriers. To that end, we announced Azure Synapse Analytics in November 2019, where we removed the barriers between data warehousing and big data analytics. And in 2020, we took this a step further and announced Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB to break down the barriers that had […]
Millions of pounds lost to crypto fraud on social media
British citizens have lost more than £63m in the past year to investment fraud conducted via social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, with almost half of the scams relating to cryptocurrency, according to new figures from Action Fraud. The national reporting centre for fraud and cyber crime today revealed that it had received […]
Microsoft Teams gets more collaborative in bid to fight Zoom
Microsoft has been slowly making Teams a more collaborative environment, and at Build 2021, the tech giant announced a handful of Teams updates that’ll continue the path towards a more collaborative offering. This would be useful for a brainstorming session where there’s a whiteboard in the middle of the meeting for jotting down ideas and key […]
Microsoft adds more services to its Azure Arc multi-cloud management stack
Microsoft has launched a set of new Azure services that organisations can now run on any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster using its Azure Arc multiple-cloud service. At its virtual Build 2021 event, Microsoft said its cloud services, such as Azure App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, and Event Grid, would now all be Arc-enabled (in preview […]
Leveraging IoT farming to expand food access
Access to healthy food is a staggering problem in the U.S., says Holger Kuehnle, executive creative director, at Artefact. Some 19 million Americans live in food deserts, while up to 40% of food produced in the U.S. goes to waste. It’s clear that the existing food system faces an overwhelming efficiency problem. Growing food is […]
Oracle’s new Arm-based cloud instances target penny pinchers
Oracle rolled out its first Arm compute instances to speed app development and improve application performance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Rather than design its own Arm server CPU, Oracle tapped a young CPU startup called Ampere and will use its Altra processors in OCI. To attract cloud app developers, Oracle priced the new Arm […]
IBM collaborates with Indian universities on quantum research
IBM will provide over-the-cloud access to its quantum systems for Indian institutions to accelerate advanced training and research in quantum computing as it hopes to help build a “quantum-ready” workforce. Faculty and students will be able to access IBM quantum systems, quantum learning resources, and quantum tools over the IBM Cloud for education and research […]
Home Office reveals plans for long-overdue ‘digital border’
The Home Office has published plans for its long-awaited digitisation of border controls and immigration. The new strategy promises a “fully end-to-end digital customer experience” for online applications, proof of identity and also crossing the border. It includes a new digital visa system to help count the number of people coming into the UK, which […]
Real estate tech takes on the housing boom in this seller’s market
What to do look for in those MLS, Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com listings to get the most bang for buyer bucks and smoke the competition. Image: anyaberkut/Getty Images/iStockphoto Because of COVID-19 regulations, the long-standing real estate process had to change, and quickly: There was no in-person open house, brokers’ open or walk-through of houses for […]