Thinking beyond audio: Augmenting headphones for everyday digital interactions

This research was accepted by and received a Best Paper Award during ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2023, which is dedicated to advancing the field of user-centered system design. Headphones are traditionally used to provide and manage audio experiences through physical controls and a range of sensors. Nonetheless, these controls and sensors have remained confined to audio input and output functionality, such as adjusting the volume or muting the microphone.…

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Patch me if you can

Many organizations utilize third-party apps for identity security solutions to automate and unburden overtaxed IT admins from tedious tasks that employees can perform via self-service without IT assistance. But in September 2021, our researchers observed threat actors exploiting one such third-party app at several US-based entities. The vulnerability was publicly reported on September 6, 2021 as CVE-2021-40539 Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService.1 The application in question was a multifactor authentication, single sign-on,…

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Promoting Collaboration: Finally bringing AI innovation to education

Over the past few months, AI technology, the surrounding discussion, and learning in the worldwide education community have continued to advance. Back in March, we shared three critical focus areas that continue to guide us as we work towards bringing AI innovation to education. Today, we’re thrilled to announce our recent collaborations with New York City Public Schools, PowerSchool, and Kahoot!, highlight additional AI-powered experiences, and introduce a new AI…

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Athletes and managers have a lot more in common than you think

A while back, my strength and conditioning coach asked me to work on jumping. while back, my strength and conditioning coach asked me to work on jumping. Jumping onto boxes and off of them, hopping on one leg, then the other, then both. I was confused. I was training to run ultramarathons—trail races longer than 26.2 miles—so why did I need to practice jumping in place? I told my coach…

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Microsoft Azure Removes barriers to autonomous vehicle adoption

Autonomous vehicles, also known as self-driving cars, have the potential to truly revolutionize the transportation industry, with their impact anticipated across many industries. Several stubborn obstacles, however, stand in the way of mass adoption. In the over 150 years since the automotive industry was founded, it has never experienced such rapid innovation and transformational change as it is currently experiencing. Since the advent of the horseless carriage in the 1860s,…

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Innovation with Azure AI and economic benefits

At Microsoft Build this year our CEO Satya Nadella grounded the excitement surrounding AI back to one simple goal: to better serve unmet user needs. He asked “Why do we build software?” and, in doing so, he reminded us it’s not the technological capabilities of AI tools that make them so valuable, but instead where we apply them and for whom. Great products have always, and will always, be about…

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New Cloud ESG data and reporting capabilities for Sustainability

It’s been a year of many advances for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. Now, with the expected onset of new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting regulations, including those coming from the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), we’re announcing powerful new capabilities to help organizations collect and manage more ESG data. Microsoft Sustainability Manager, a Cloud for Sustainability solution, is being expanded to give customers fuller visibility into their…

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Ongoing Russian cyberattacks target Ukraine

Microsoft threat intelligence teams have been tracking a wave of cyberattacks from an actor we call Cadet Blizzard that is associated with the Russian GRU. These attacks, which began in February 2023, targeted government agencies and IT service providers in Ukraine. We can also now attribute to Cadet Blizzard the destructive WhisperGate wiper attacks against Ukraine detected by Microsoft in January 2022 prior to Russia’s invasion. Cadet Blizzard typically breaches…

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