Month: June 2018

With AI’s meteoric rise, autonomous systems have been projected to grow to more than 800 million in operation by 2025. However, while envisioned in science fiction for a long time, truly intelligent autonomous systems are still elusive and remain a holy grail. The reality today is that training autonomous systems that function amidst the many…

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In honor of its two-year anniversary, seminal survival-horror RPG 7 Days to Die will be free to all Xbox Live Gold members playing on Xbox One from Thursday, June 21 at 12:01 a.m. PST until Monday, June 25 at 11:59 p.m. PST. During that time, you’ll be able to download the full game and explore, craft, build, and survive until the clock runs out. If you decide one long weekend of zombie slaying isn’t enough, you can purchase the game for 50% off during the Telltale Games Publisher Sale, which offers savings on nearly every game in Telltale’s award-winning catalog… Continue reading Play 7 Days to Die for Free This Weekend with Xbox Live Gold→

Corey Sanders, Corporate VP – Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Madhan Ramakrishnan, Partner PM Manager on the Azure Compute Team to talk about ACI (now GA – Azure Container Instances).Post any questions, topic ideas or general conversation he… Continue reading More info on Azure Container Instances | Tuesdays With Corey→

It’s hard to match the narrative scope and immersive experience that a compelling story-driven game has over other storytelling mediums, allowing players not only to fall into the world of a well-crafted story but to experience it firsthand. These types of games can empower someone with a new perspective or let us live a double-life as a superhero. Narrative-driven games allow us to become someone we’re not, which is perhaps the biggest reason we enjoy these experiences. Now, with the power of Xbox One X, creators can bring us even closer to their vision. With our Xbox One Storytellers series,… Continue reading Xbox One Storytellers: Telltale on Batman: The Enemy Within→

You are using Kubernetes to deploy and manage your containerized applications and wonder about distributing your clusters across traditional nodes and IoT devices? Azure IoT Edge now integrates with Kubernetes allowing you to seamlessly do exactly that… Continue reading Kubernetes integration with Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show→

Our mission for more than two decades has been to keep you informed in an easily accessible, comprehensive and trustworthy way. Today, we share the next step in our evolution. Continue reading Meet Microsoft News: A new way to stay informed across the Web, Windows 10, iOS and Android→

Damian talks to Microsoft’s Paige Bailey as well as MVP Terry McCann about DevOps for Data Science. These two really popular fields are not often combined, but there are some fantastic opportunities for cross-pollination of ideas. Damian, Pai… Continue reading DevOps for Data Science | The DevOps Lab→

From the start, our vision for War Thunder was always ambitious. We set out to create a massively multiplayer online game featuring aviation, armored vehicles, and warships from the pre-World War II 1930s to the height of Cold War in the 1980s. War Thunder reflects real-life warfare where nations unleashed joint military operations. Air battles feature AI-controlled ground vehicles that attackers and bombers will destroy to achieve victory. In Ground Forces battles, players are not only using tanks, but take to the skies (once they earn enough points) to rain fire and destruction from above — which the opposition counters… Continue reading War Thunder Founder Packs Available Now on Xbox One→