(Reuters) — Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing the hackers to continue their campaign, according to former employees of the company.
Contents: 2015 – A breakthrough year for Artificial Intelligence; The debate about preventing the Singularity; Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change; Proof that the Singularity will occur by 2030
Wall Street began to wake up to the “deep-value” Yahoo! play that Breitbart News has been reporting, with a 10 percent jump in the stock price to over $36 on December 2.
I knew Windows 10 was not going to be one of Microsoft’s proudest moments when I asked a colleague to sketch out its three main advantages.
Microsoft has acknowledged that its free Skype Internet-calling, video and text service suffered a worldwide outage on September 20, 2015. The paid business users’ service is reportedly not suffering the same outages.
Silicon Valley often gets knocked for a lack of diversity, but historically excluded groups are making an impressive showing at the top spot of the most valuable companies. Just looking at the top ten companies based in Silicon Valley by NASDAQ market cap, 40% are run by someone who is a woman, an immigrant, or non-white. By individual demographics, 20% are women, and 30% are foreign-born.
Reagent Games is focused on creating total destruction in Crackdown 3, using Microsoft cloud computing to enable the game to have completely destructible environments, provided gamers have a fully cooperative Internet connection.
Microsoft kicked off Gamescom 2015 on Tuesday, August 4 in Cologne, Germany, debuting new games like Quantum Break, Dark Souls III, and Rise of the Tomb Raider and highlighting the Xbox One’s new compatibility with Windows 10.
For a company that is regularly scowled at by the tech media, Microsoft’s introduction of Windows 10 over the last 48 hours has been amazingly smooth, and reviews are overwhelmingly positive. In what for Microsoft is a paradigm shift, the
Intel, one of the nations largest technology corporations, has delivered a stern message to their workers: You’re not good enough.
While Sony and Microsoft debuted their PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles in China within the past year, only 9 million out of China’s 515 million gamers use a console. Due to content censorship, prices, and pirating, Sony and Microsoft are expected to sell less than 550,000 consoles, combined, this year, with online PC and mobile games expected to haul in $16.8 and 4 billion, respectively.
Microsoft’s dumping of 7,800 employees and taking a $7.6 billion write-down related to its purchase of Nokia’s phone manufacturing operation was a cheap price to pay to vanquish the ghost of the Steve Ballmer era.
During a speech in Chicago last week, Rubio emphasized the false narrative that a lack of skilled American workers is the cause of these massive layoffs, using the phrase “skills gap” as his hook; a code phrase which is also employed by Microsoft, Southern California Edison and other companies. In reality, there is a surplus, not shortage, of skilled U.S. workers and not enough STEM jobs to accommodate these citizens.
Microsoft is laying off an additional 7,800 U.S. workers, on top of the 18,000 it’s already terminated. Meanwhile, the software giant is lobbying in Washington for an increase in H1B visas — allowing the company to replace these workers with foreigners who are willing to work for far less.
Xbox will be at the gamescom show in Cologne, Germany on August 4 at 10AM EDT for a briefing and will show off games Scalebound, Quantum Break, and Crackdown, which were absent from E3 in June.
Microsoft held its E3 conference on Monday, June 15, revealing a multitude of new first- and third-party games and new technology and support for the Xbox One console.
Iowa’s caucus is the first in the nation, but Iowa is also the first state trying out new technology during the election process.
PC Gamer magazine will host the first annual PC Gaming Show at E3 this year. It will feature Microsoft, Blizzard, Square Enix, and a host of other PC game developers.
Microsoft head Phil Spencer denied the rumor that the studio would be buying Konami’s survival horror game Silent Hills, which was abandoned in late April.
There are two great new email mobile apps from Google and Microsoft and both offer helpful features, such as location-aware emails and calendar scheduling. While both apps offer something unique, I think one way to compare them is based on a single metric: which app gets me to inbox zero fastest. I don’t enjoy email — I just want to get my daily digital chore done and get on with my life.
Microsoft and Duke University have developed Kahawai, a new utility that can cut bandwidth used while playing games online by approximately 83%.
A now-removed product page for the addition of the Halo 3: ODST campaign to Halo: The Master Chief Collection was found in the Xbox Games Store on Wednesday.
Game developers are gearing up for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) occurring Tuesday, June 16 – Thursday, June 18. Only game creators and press are invited, but PlayStation and Xbox plan to allow gamers to experience the event via movie theater screening and Xbox Daily: LIVE @ E3, respectively.
The European Union has been involved in what seems like a permanent investigation of Google for abusing its search-engine dominance. There is a certain through-the-looking-glass quality to Reuters’ report on the latest developments, as Google is punished with anti-competitive regulations for allegedly engaging in anti-competitive practices.
Is the search-engine market ready for a little dash of creative destruction? We’ve grown accustomed to a landscape dominated by the formidable Google mountain, their company name becoming the preferred euphemism for the very act of using a search engine.
