Category: Artificial Intelligence

Summary Explore games featuring powerful women on Xbox Game Pass   Katy Jo Wright, Xbox Senior Director, discusses the many ways women show up in the video game industry Artist Amika Cooper celebrates women as main characters through redesigned Xbox logo   To celebrate women’s contributions to gaming, we’re focusing on the main character energy that women bring […]

1 AI is unleashing a data center goldrushIt could rise from 2% of the global data center footprint to 10% by 2025. (NYT $)+ AI’s carbon footprint is bigger than you think. (MIT Technology Review) 2 Emissions reached a record high in 2023A big driver of that increase was extreme drought, which cut hydropower production in some […]

Unprecedented collaboration will build the most powerful, fully integrated, AI-driven drug discovery and development platform to dramatically improve pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) productivity and bring novel therapeutics to patients faster and more cost-effectively than traditional approaches. Microsoft and 1910 Genetics, the only biotechnology company advancing small and large molecule drug discovery with a multimodal […]

Our ability to cram ever-smaller transistors onto a chip has enabled today’s age of ubiquitous computing. But that approach is finally running into limits, with some experts declaring an end to Moore’s Law and a related principle, known as Dennard’s Scaling. Those developments couldn’t be coming at a worse time. Demand for computing power has […]

Hainikoye hits Accept and a young woman greets him in Hausa, a gravelly language spoken across West Africa’s Sahel region. She has three new cows, and wants to know: Does he have advice on getting them through the lean season? Hainikoye—a twentysomething agronomist who has “followed animals,” as Sahelians refer to herding, since he first […]

Advances in AI technology can be intimidating and maybe even overwhelming, but they do open up a whole new set of tools to help you tackle your day. At Microsoft Edge, we’ve been developing AI-powered tools to help you browse smarter and achieve more than you thought possible. And what better time than now to […]

Tamara Broderick first set foot on MIT’s campus when she was a high school student, as a participant in the inaugural Women’s Technology Program. The monthlong summer academic experience gives young women a hands-on introduction to engineering and computer science. What is the probability that she would return to MIT years later, this time as […]