App developer named Jon Reynolds has reportedly sold his Predictive text app SwiftKey to Microsoft for a $250 million. According to Dailymail Jon Reynolds founded his predictive text app with fellow Cambridge graduate Ben Medlock in 2008, when they were both still in their 20s. SwiftKey uses artificial intelligence to adapt to the way the phone user types, predicting the way [...]
How Old You Really Look? Find Out From Microsoft In Seconds
This is a whole new level of machine learning from Microsoft. The tech giant just created a website where you could find out in seconds how old you look or according to CNN how old "computer algorithm thinks you are." I tried a couple of pictures and my own selfies and the result was amazing and the same time funny! The result in some was 90% accurate while some was way [...]
Microsoft announces end of Internet Explorer
So we hope you can join us for a minute’s silence, after Microsoft announced that they’ll soon be doing away with the iconic browser in favour of a newer version, which is currently code named Project Spartan. Frustrated users have previously slammed the browser for being slow and bug-prone, and Microsoft once talked of changing the name of the browser to address “negative [...]