Month: November 2019

Month: November 2019

Bing wants to help US voters make smarter electoral decisions in 2020’s presidential election – #Microsoft #bing #elections #vote #RoadmapforSuccess
November 22, 2019 Technology Adam E. Williams

Microsoft is helping US users gain easier access to candidate information as the 2020 Elections approach in order to help them make smarter decisions when choosing a candidate to vote for. “The candidate experience leverages data sources from news articles, official candidate sites and non-partisan partners such as VoteSmart.org. When searching for a particular presidential

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Accessibility tools for low-vision travelers at SEA – #RentonReporter #accessibility #travel #SEA #RoadmapforSuccess
November 21, 2019 Local Adam E. Williams

Renton Reporter Renton Reporter – Your local homepage. We all have tools that help us get through our every day lives more efficiently and easily. Like grocery shopping lists on your phone and step-by-step GPS directions. We get so used to them, we wonder how we ever managed without them. Accessibility tools for low-vision travelers

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Microsoft Teams has hit 20 million daily active users, nearly 8 million more than Slack! – #microsoft #Teams #Slack #RoadmapforSuccess
November 19, 2019 Technology Adam E. Williams

Back in July this year, Microsoft announced that Teams has reached 13 million daily active users. Today, Microsoft announced that Teams has reached 20 million active users, a 7 million increase in just about 4 months. For instance, last month Teams customers participated in more than 27 million voice or video meetings and performed over

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Microsoft brings NVIDIA GPU-powered supercomputer to Azure – #microsoft #nvidia #azure
November 19, 2019 Technology Adam E. Williams

At the SC19 supercomputing show in Denver, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced the new NDv2, the world’s largest GPU-accelerated cloud-based supercomputer on Azure. NDv2 VMs are designed specifically for most demanding distributed HPC, AI, and machine learning workloads. These VMs come with 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 NVLink interconnected GPUs each with 32 GB of HBM2 memory,

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