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Microsoft Azure Launches Cloud-Based Voice Gateway for Operators
Microsoft Azure recently announced the general availability of Azure Communications Gateway. This product lets operators connect their fixed and mobile voice networks to Teams Phone, Microsoft's cloud-based system.
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Microsoft Introduces Azure Operator Nexus to Simplify Deployment of Network Functions
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure Operator Nexus, a hybrid, AI-enabled, carrier-grade cloud platform designed to meet the specific needs of network operators.
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Microsoft Launches New Cognitive Speech Services Features to Accelerate Language Learning
Microsoft recently launched new features for its Cognitive Speech Service to accelerate language learning with pronunciation assessment, new speech-to-text (STT) languages, and prebuilt and custom neural voice enhancements.
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ASP.NET Core 8 Preview 1 Available
On February 21st, 2023, Microsoft released the first look at the upcoming .NET version, which will also feature a number of ASP.NET Core-powered web development advancements. The .NET 8 version, has a particular focus on enhancing ASP.NET Core features. The most recent advancements will focus on areas like Blazor United, Authentication & Authorization experience, and Native AOT.
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Microsoft Wants to Use ChatGPT to Control Robots through Language
In a recent paper, researchers at Microsoft Autonomous Systems and Robotics Group showed how OpenAI's ChatGPT can be used for robotics applications, including how to design prompts and how to direct ChatGPT to use specific robotic libraries to program the task at hand.
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Microsoft Joins the FinOps Foundation as a Premier Member
Microsoft has officially joined the FinOps Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes financial management in cloud technology.
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Microsoft Unveils VALL-E, a Game-Changing TTS Language Model
Microsoft has introduced VALL-E, a novel language model method for text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) that employs audio codec codes as intermediate representations and can replicate anyone's voice after listening to just three seconds of audio recording.
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GitHub Releases Copilot for Business amid Ongoing Legal Controversy
GitHub has announced Copilot for Business, a business plan for their OpenAI-powered coding assistant Copilot. The release follows a recent class action lawsuit against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI for violating open-source licenses.
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What's New in .NET Community Toolkit v8.1.0 Preview 1
Microsoft’s .NET Community Toolkit’s latest version, v.8.1.0, recently reached its first preview release. The release brings several new features and improvements to the toolkit: improvements to the MVVM source generator performance and the addition of custom attributes support for the ObservableProperty attribute. It also brings additional IMessenger extensions and .NET 7 and C# 11 support.
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Microsoft Open-Sources Agricultural AI Toolkit FarmVibes.AI
Microsoft Research recently open-sourced FarmVibes.AI, a suite of ML models and tools for sustainable agriculture. FarmVibes.AI includes data processing workflows for fusing multiple sets of spatiotemporal and geospatial data, such as weather data and satellite and drone imagery.
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First Open Source Copyright Lawsuit Challenges GitHub Copilot
A class-action lawsuit has been filed in a US federal court challenging the legality of GitHub Copilot and the related OpenAI Codex. The suit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI claims violation of open-source licenses and could have a wide impact in the world of artificial intelligence.
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Azure Logic Apps Standard Now Supports XSLT and .NET Framework Maps
Microsoft recently announced the preview of support of .NET Framework assemblies in XSLT maps in Logic Apps (Standard), adding more extensibility options.
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Microsoft Releases Final Release Candidate for ASP.NET Core 7
Microsoft released ASP.NET Core 7 Release Candidate 2, the final release candidate for .NET 7 on October 11th. This release includes improvements to output caching, to the dynamic authentication in Blazor feature introduced in RC1 and experimental WebAssembly multithreading support using Web Workers. It introduces a new vary-by option and improves the OutputCachePolicyBuilder API.
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Microsoft Previews Computer Vision Image Analysis API 4.0
Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of a new version of the Computer Vision Image Analysis API, making all visual image features ranging from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to object detection available through a single endpoint.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Deployment Environments
During the recent Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Deployment Environments. This managed service enables dev teams to quickly spin up app infrastructure with project-based templates to establish consistency and best practices while maximizing security, compliance, and cost-efficiency.