It’s hard to ignore the surge of artificial intelligence and machine learning developments in recent years. The main players such as Microsoft, Google and IBM have released AI as-a-service, making it easier than before to integrate artificial intelligence into your…
The big news with the SQL Server 2017 release was support for running on Linux and in containers, graph queries, and running machine learning where your data is using R and Python. A year later, the CTP 2.0 preview of…
Speech recognition systems are getting more powerful. They’re most accurate with a good close-up microphone and some advanced knowledge of the vocabulary likely to be used on specific topics – as with the PowerPoint Presentation Translator, which creates a transcription…
Office has been building in AI tools for quite some time, from the Clutter feature in Outlook that uses the newly open source Infer.NET probabilistic framework to learn what kind of email you’re interested in, to the voice recognition Dictate…
Multi-master replication and multiple models and APIs make Cosmos DB the ideal home for intelligent cloud applications Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s multi-model distributed database service, was designed to match the key features of cloud computing by being globally distributed, elastically scalable…
As the Internet of Things becomes more pervasive, going into embedded devices like air conditioning and microwave ovens that haven’t been connected before, it becomes increasingly important to secure and service IoT devices, and to handle those IoT devices through…
Microsoft and Intel have announced they are partnering to bring optimised deep learning frameworks to Azure: a new offering named ‘Intel Optimized Data Science VM for Linux (Ubuntu)’. Deep learning is a machine learning technique that puts neural networks together…
In May 2019 HERE released three Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to simplify the integration of the REST services as Azure functions within an Azure solution. The templates cover the following: Serverless Functions – Deploys HERE location services as Azure functions that…
In this blog post we continue to explore another Cognitive Services API that belongs to the Search family – the Bing Entity Search. The Bing Entity Search API lets you send a search query to Bing and fetch contextual results…
In my previous blog, I explained that Git is the tool for source code version control and GitHub is the service that hosts the code repositories. In the early days, GitHub was also primarily focussed on version control but over…
Microsoft recently shipped a new API that belongs to the Bing Maps family, the Multi-Itinerary Optimization API (or MIO for short). The MIO API is ideal if you’re battling with delivery planning and schedule issues as it helps you plan…
Adding data sources to maps makes them even more powerful. Maps aren’t just for navigating and routing; they’re also a great way to visualise any data that involves travel, locations or different territories. And sometimes location, distance and travel time…
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