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Microsoft is developing a network card that improves AI performance

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The Information has learned that Microsoft is developing a new network card that could improve the performance of its Maia AI server chip. As an added bonus, it would further Microsoft's goal of reducing its dependence on Nvidia as the new network card is expected to be similar to Team. Read Entire Article

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Microsoft to acquire Metaswitch Networks, bolstering Azure telecommunications efforts

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Microsoft said it will acquire Metaswitch Networks , a 39-year-old company that develops software for cloud-based communication networks. The acquisition builds on Microsoft’s existing cloud-related work to help telecom companies with their 5G deployments. It has offices in Los Altos, Calif., and London.

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Microsoft gives developers a new method for estimating quantum computing needs

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Microsoft’s Krysta Svore discusses quantum computing at a 2020 conference. Microsoft has an app for that — and now developers around the world can have it, too. It’s a software tool that was originally developed for Microsoft’s internal use. GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle).

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Microsoft reports a Majorana development in its quest to build quantum computers

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(Photo by John Brecher for Microsoft). Microsoft says its researchers have found evidence of an exotic phenomenon that’s key to its plans to build general-purpose quantum computers. Microsoft has chosen a particularly exotic technological strategy, which involves inducing quantum states on topological superconducting wires.

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Google, Indian government shake up private 5G networks

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The fast-shifting private mobile network market has received fresh injections of competition with Google’s announcement it will start selling private networks directly to enterprises and the Indian government’s decision to make 5G spectrum. private wireless networking solution which it will sell directly to enterprises.

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Microsoft and PNNL make a better battery, and show AI’s potential to supercharge science

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A prototype battery developed by Microsoft and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory uses a combination of lithium and sodium to reduce the overall lithium content. The AI tools reduced the number of candidates from 32 million to 23, of which 18 were new and previously unknown, Microsoft and PNNL say.

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Haunted by repeated breaches, Microsoft is ‘putting security above all else,’ vows CEO Satya Nadella

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Satya Nadella leaves the stage at Microsoft Build in May 2019. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Satya Nadella has made a habit on Microsoft’s earnings calls of touting the revenue growth in the company’s security technology business. government officials. The company has been here before, more than two decades ago.

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