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It might have seemed like one of the weirder headlines of 2024: Microsoft is paying $1.6 billion to restart Three Mile Island. That’s the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two…
Chinese technology giants are outpacing their US rivals, driven by the rapid advancements of DeepSeek, which has bolstered confidence in China’s AI capabilities. DeepSeek’s breakthroughs have accelerated investment in China’s top technology firms, helping them gain an edge over American tech giants. A portfolio of China’s top seven technology firms, labeled the ‘7 Titans’ by…
Skype will ring for the last time on May 5 as owner Microsoft retires the two-decade-old internet calling service that redefined how people connect across borders. Shutting down Skype will help Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab focus on its homegrown Teams service by simplifying its communication offerings, the software giant said on Friday. Founded in…
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Skype, the pioneering Internet telecommunications and video call platform it bought nearly 14 years ago for $8.5 billion. “We will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub,” already used by hundreds of millions of people at work, school and…
Listen to article Amazon is revamping its Alexa voice assistant by incorporating generative AI capabilities, aiming to enhance its competitiveness against rivals like Google’s Gemini and Microsoft-backed ChatGPT. During an event in New York City Amazon’s head of devices and services, Panos Panay, introduced Alexa+, a new version of the assistant that uses Amazon’s own large language…
Microsoft has unveiled a new chip that it said showed quantum computing is “years, not decades” away, joining Google and IBM in predicting that a fundamental change in computing technology is much closer than recently believed. Quantum computing holds the promise of carrying out calculations that would take today’s systems millions of years and could…
The video game tie-in is going to be a while (Credits: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video) The Tuesday letters page explores the oldest online games that are still running, as a reader asks what improvements Saros should make over Returnal. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk Low impactLooking at Microsoft’s line-up for this year…
About two hours from Los Angeles, Palm Springs is a desert resort city – arid and beautiful with the San Jacinto mountains as a scenic backdrop. Bill Gates has a home here, within an upscale Golf and Resort Community. In early January, the Microsoft co-founder met me in Palm Springs, a short drive from his…
About two hours from Los Angeles, Palm Springs is a desert resort city – arid and beautiful with the San Jacinto mountains as a scenic backdrop. Bill Gates has a home here, within an upscale Golf and Resort Community. In early January, the Microsoft co-founder met me in Palm Springs, a short drive from his…
Listen to article Microsoft has integrated DeepSeek’s R1 AI model into its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub, making it easier for developers to incorporate the cost-effective model into their AI applications. This move follows R1’s rise to prominence for its ability to be trained at a fraction of the cost of leading AI models like those…
