Tune in Monday for Exciting Age of Empires News at gamescom

Next week on Monday, August 21 at 9:00 p.m. CEST, 12:00 p.m. PDT we’ll get a first-look and hands-on preview with the recently announced Age of Empires: Definitive Edition at gamescom 2017. And that’s not all — we’ll be revealing some exciting news about the Age of Empires franchise and more. 20 years after its launch on PC in 1997, we announced at E3 2017 that Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is coming exclusively to Windows 10, with a closed beta available for registration now. Created as an homage to fans of the series and PC gamers everywhere, Age of… Continue reading Tune in Monday for Exciting Age of Empires News at gamescom

Based In Cities Around The World, Delve Into What These Global MVPs Have To Share

TechNet: Office 365 Chat Based Workspace John Naguib is an Office Servers and Services MVP. He’s also a Solution Architect and Senior Consultant, with a deep knowledge of SharePoint. In addition, he has a strong .net application development background and is knowledgable in Office 365, Azure and several Microsoft products. John is a recognized expert within the… Continue reading Based In Cities Around The World, Delve Into What These Global MVPs Have To Share

AI harnesses nature to fly motor-less glider, mixed reality web series debuts and back-to-school apps go on sale – Weekend Reading: August 18 edition

The end of August is vacation season and—while many Microsoft employees are currently away from their desks and computers—the company continues its drumbeat of exciting news. Join us for this edition of Weekend Reading and learn recent highlights from Microsoft far and wide. Speaking of late summer, it was in the the searing midday heat…

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Watch Marvel’s The Defenders on Xbox One Today

The ragtag team of misfits: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist come together to save New York City in “Marvel’s The Defenders” premiering today on Netflix. Watch the individual series to get to know each of these characters before they do whatever it takes to defend their home. Exclusively on Xbox One, check out the immersive experience on your console that walks you through the world of “The Defenders” including epic trailers, an exclusive, never-before seen fight scene and a short video from Stan Lee himself. And with the Xbox One S, the ultimate games and 4K entertainment system,… Continue reading Watch Marvel’s The Defenders on Xbox One Today

Making your EZ-Robots Smart with Microsoft Cognitive Services

Who doesn’t like making cool robots?

Who doesn’t like it when they are easy to build?

Who doesn’t like extending them, making them smarter (to a point)?

One of our favorite robot platforms, EZ-Robot, Easy Robotics with Windows 10 and EZ-Robot, has some great extensibility options/plugins.

Sergiy Baydachnyy has written up a cool post on a couple of those plugins, plugins that help you make your robot all that much smarter…

Build Intelligent Robots with EZ-Robot and Microsoft Cognitive Services

What if a robot could tell how you are feeling?

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs and SDK services that can enable developers to easily add features that can detect emotion, identify objects and understand language understanding into their applications. Imagine utilizing that same set of features in a robot.

Enter Calgary based EZ-Robot who has created a solution to allow those interested in building robots to create applications for their robots using different SDKs. Their core product called EZ-Builder allows anybody, regardless of programming knowledge, to bring robots to life. The software is available from Windows Store and is able to incorporate Microsoft Cognitive Services to allow for further depth to the EZ-Robot’s capabilities..

This post will cover is the use of three plugins compatible with EZ-Builder that are based on Microsoft Cognitive Services. The following are a list of these plugins:

To setup any of these plugins you simple need to install them on your computer and add to your EZ-Builder project. Once you have these plugins in your project, it’s easy to setup each of them. For example, if you want to use voice commands in your project, you need to provide some parameters using Config window below:

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Optimize Your Content Delivery with Azure CDN | Azure Friday

Manling Zhang joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how to optimize content delivery with Azure CDN for various customer scenarios, such as general web delivery, large file download, and media streaming. With one little hint from customer about the scena… Continue reading Optimize Your Content Delivery with Azure CDN | Azure Friday

Integrating Azure CDN into Your Azure Workflows | Azure Friday

Manling Zhang joins Scott Hanselman to demo the recent integration of CDN into Azure Web App, Storage and Media Services portal experience. Enabling and managing a CDN for these services is extremely simple with a few clicks and without leaving the por… Continue reading Integrating Azure CDN into Your Azure Workflows | Azure Friday