OneConnect, the blockchain arm of China’s largest insurance fund, Ping An, announced yet another cut off its expected valuation on the launch of its IPO as shares traded between $9 and $10 USD at opening. The company raised a total of $312 million USD in the IPO on Friday, bringing the total valuation of the […]
How To Transform The Customer Journey With AI And Big Data
Providing excellent customer service needs to be a priority for every business. Think of your customer service department as the personality of your brand. It is also the reason why people will choose your products and services on a repeated basis. It is quite simple really, with no customers, there is no company. The path […]
One of Africa’s fastest growing economies to fund blockchain development in 2020
As one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, Rwanda aims to keep up with the rest of the world on matters in blockchain as it becomes the latest state to allocate a portion of its budget to the industry. According to reports from New Time Rwanda, a local publication, part of the allocation to […]
Combine the Power of Video Indexer and Computer Vision
We are pleased to introduce the ability to export high-resolution keyframes from Azure Media Service’s Video Indexer. Whereas keyframes were previously exported in reduced resolution compared to the source video, high resolution keyframes extraction gives you original quality images and allows you to make use of the image-based artificial intelligence models provided by the Microsoft […]
Azure Sphere guardian module simplifies and secures brownfield IoT
One of the toughest IoT quandaries is figuring out how to bake IoT into existing hardware in a secure, cost-effective way. For many customers, scrapping existing hardware investments for new IoT-enabled devices or “greenfield” installations isn’t feasible. And retrofitting mission-critical devices that are already in service with IoT “brownfield” installations is often deemed too risky, […]
Azure Sphere guardian module simplifies & secures brownfield IoT
One of the toughest IoT quandaries is figuring out how to bake IoT into existing hardware in a secure, cost-effective way. For many customers, scrapping existing hardware investments for new IoT-enabled devices (“greenfield” installations) isn’t feasible. And retrofitting mission-critical devices that are already in service with IoT (“brownfield” installations) is often deemed too risky, too […]
The IoT Architect’s Practical Guide to Security
We understand the extraordinary potential of the Internet of Things (IoT), but how do we move from where we are now to a world of a trillion connected devices? To seize the opportunities within this market we must ensure the products that we are developing are future-proof and secure. Also, we need to build trust in emerging technologies and […]
Microsoft partner ANSYS extends ability of Azure Digital Twins platform
Digital twins have moved from an exciting concept to reality. More companies than ever are connecting assets and production networks with sensors and using analytics to optimize operations across machinery, plants, and industrial networks. As exact virtual representations of the physical environment, digital twins incorporate historical and real-time data to enable sophisticated spatial analysis of […]
Introducing maintenance control for platform updates
Today we are announcing the preview of a maintenance control feature for Azure Virtual Machines that gives more control to customers with highly sensitive workloads for platform maintenance. Using this feature, customers can control all impactful host updates, including rebootless updates, for up to 35 days. Azure frequently updates its infrastructure to improve the reliability, […]
“Women and minorities are not building AI, and therefore, they are not being represented in popular…
“Women and minorities are not building AI, and therefore, they are not being represented in popular algorithm-based products” Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are developing a new imaging technique that can reportedly provide accurate, real-time, computer-aided diagnosis of colorectal cancer. Using deep learning, a type of machine learning, the team used […]