Microsoft has made NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) dataset available on Azure via the Windows giant's Planetary Computer platform.… It seems an excellent use for all that Azure capacity ...

Advances in virtual and augmented reality, spatial computing, and other technologies offer chances to work with data more ...

For years, Microsoft has hyped Windows 11 cas an OS with AI, and the company is finally putting the building blocks in place for that transformation. Microsoft execs shared examples of how the company ...

Researchers studying the universe's "Pink Planet" have discovered an unexpected feature in its atmosphere: clouds made of salt. A team of astronomers led by Northwestern University used the James Webb ...

A top quantum computing expert assails Microsoft’s claims that it has a “topological qubit,” arguing in a new paper that the company has failed to demonstrate the technology. University of St Andrews ...

Update: Added statement from Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich to the end of the story. Microsoft announced today that it is accelerating its quantum-safe security roadmap, saying advances in ...

The data center, called Project Kilby, is expected to consume nearly 2.7 gigawatts of electricity, equivalent to about 2 million homes. A majority of the electricity will come from large gas turbines ...

Google announced Wednesday that computer use — the ability for an AI agent to see a screen, click, type, and navigate software without a human at the keyboard — is now a built-in tool inside Gemini ...

Who are the 50 most important people at the intersection of technology, art, science, and culture? Who are the 50 people whose work this year will shape the next 50 years? That's the question we ask ...

What if we've been thinking about solar panels the wrong way? Traditional solar arrays are designed to face the sun, but a new generation of vertical bifacial solar panels is challenging that ...