Microsoft may be gearing up for one of the boldest engineering transformations the software industry has seen in decades. A ...

Microsoft has tweaked the algorithm generating the browser choice screen that it is pushing out to European Union users as a result of the European Commission's findings in an antitrust case there.

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

Microsoft is open-sourcing its cloud-compression algorithm and optimized hardware implementation for cloud storage. Microsoft is contributing that algorithm, known as ""=""> plus the associated ...

Microsoft is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 to address growing performance and security concerns by ...

A new AI training method is designed to boost efficiency and mimic human-like reasoning in large language models. Microsoft researchers claim the approach has the potential to be groundbreaking.

Microsoft has been upgrading its artificial intelligence abilities by adding what was described as an "algorithm of thoughts." The ending result reportedly gives the AI the ability to reason like a ...

It’s a nightmarish mix of Big Tech overreach and state authoritarianism. The Argentinian province of Salta approved the development of a Microsoft algorithm in 2o18 that allegedly could determine ...

Shakira reacts as her team suffers a fate accurately predicted by Microsoft Bing. So far, so good for Microsoft’s foray into pop-culture predictions. By crunching data from social networks and the ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Microsoft has ...

The amount of data that the big cloud computing providers now store is staggering, so it’s no surprise that most store all of this information as compressed data in some form or another — just like ...

Search engines today are more than just the dumb keyword matchers they used to be. You can ask a question—say, “How tall is the tower in Paris?”—and they’ll tell you that the Eiffel Tower is 324 ...