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Microsoft Announces .NET Support for Jupyter Notebooks
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the public preview of .NET Core support to Jupyter Notebooks, allowing the use of code written in C# and F#. This release is part of the Try .NET project, an interactive documentation generator for .NET Core.
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Microsoft Visual Studio Online: Distributed Development for Visual Studio
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the public preview of Visual Studio Online (VSO) at its Ignite conference. The service provides managed development environments that can be used with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. It also features an online code editor with IDE capabilities such as debugging, code completion, and collaborative sessions.
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Stateful Programming Models in Serverless Functions: Chris Gillum at QCon San Francisco
Chris Gillum, principal engineering manager at Microsoft, presented at QCon San Francisco on Serverless Programming Models in Azure Functions. In his presentation, he discussed two stateful programming models, workflow and actors on Azure Functions - Microsoft’s implementation of serverless compute.
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Managing Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Platforms with Microsoft Azure Arc
During Microsoft’s premier event Ignite for IT-professional and decision-makers, the company announced several new hybrid cloud products and services. One of the most significant announcements was Azure Arc, a service in preview that allows enterprises to bring Azure services and management to any infrastructure including AWS and Google Cloud.
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Microsoft Releases Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) as GA
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure API for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR), making it the first cloud vendor providing native support for this format in a managed cloud service. With the API, customers can quickly ingest, persist, and manage healthcare data in the cloud.
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Microsoft Concludes the .NET Framework API Porting Project
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced the conclusion of the .NET Framework API porting project for .NET Core 3.0. That means the official development team won't port any other APIs from the .NET Framework to .NET Core 3.0. Microsoft also stated their intention to open-source more of the .NET Framework code, allowing the creation of community-driven porting projects in the future.
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Microsoft and University of Maryland Researchers Announce FreeLB Adversarial Training System
Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Maryland (UMD) announced Free Large-Batch (FreeLB), a new adversarial training technique for deep-learning natural-language processing (NLP) systems that improves accuracy, increasing RoBERTa's scores on the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark and achieving the highest score on AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC) benchmark.
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Dapr Aims to Simplify the Creation of Resilient and Portable Microservices
Microsoft Dapr is an open-source, event-driven framework aimed to build resilient and portable microservices for Cloud and Edge applications. Dapr encapsulates the best practices for building microservices, Microsoft says, and allows developers to focus on the business logic of their application.
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Facebook Open-Sources CraftAssist Framework for AI Assistants in Minecraft
Facebook AI researchers open-sourced CraftAssist, a framework for building interactive assistants for the Minecraft video game. The bots use natural language understanding (NLU) to parse and execute text commands from human players, such as requests to build houses in the game world. The framework's modular structure can be extended by researchers to perform their own ML experiments.
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Blazor: Client-Side Web UI With .NET Core 3.0
Last month, together with the .NET Core 3.0 release, Microsoft announced the new features of ASP.NET Core 3.0. While there were significant changes in the new release, the official announcement of Blazor took the spotlight. Blazor is a new framework in ASP.NET Core that allows developers to write client-side web UI using .NET and C# instead of JavaScript.
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Microsoft Releases Azure Sentinel, a Cloud Native SIEM, to General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability of Sentinel, a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) service in Azure, providing customers with intelligent security analytics across their enterprise. With the GA of Azure Sentinel, Microsoft now enters the SIEM market.
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Advanced IoT Application Support in .NET Core 3 with System.Device.Gpio
System.Device.Gpio is a new open-source library for .Net Core that aims to enable IoT applications to interact with sensors, displays, and input devices through their GPIO pins or other I/O control hardware. The library is augmented by a community-maintained collection of bindings for a number of devices.
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Microsoft Releases C# 8.0
Last week Microsoft announced the official availability of C# 8.0 as part of the .NET Core 3.0 release, simultaneously at .NET Conf 2019 and on their development blog. The new language features include nullable reference types, asynchronous streams, default interface members, and new code patterns. All new features are supported in Visual Studio 2019.
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Microsoft Releases .NET Core 3.0
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the release of .NET Core 3.0 simultaneously at .NET Conf 2019 and on their development blog. The new release includes support for Windows Desktop apps using Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Framework (WPF), new JSON APIs, support for Linux ARM64, and overall performance improvements. F# 4.7 and C# 8.0 are also featured as part of this release.
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Facebook, Microsoft, and Partners Announce Deepfake Detection Challenge
Facebook, Microsoft, the Partnership on AI, and researchers from several universities have created the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DDC), a contest to produce AI that can detect misleading images and video that have been created by AI. The challenge includes several grants and awards for the teams that create the best AI solution, using the DDC's dataset of real and fake videos.