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Microsoft Releases 125 million Building Footprints in the US as Open Data
Bing has made very significant investments in the area of deep learning, computer vision and artificial intelligence to support a number of different search scenarios. The Bing Maps team has been...
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Should you learn R or Python for data science?
One of the most common questions I get asked is, "Should I learn R or Python?". My general response is: it's up to you! Both are popular open source data platforms with active, growing communities;...
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Migrating IoT Edge solutions to GA
On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, we announced the general availability of Azure IoT Edge. This release adds tons of new features for those already using public preview bits. Customers who have never used...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.06.29
It’s another big week for DevOps stories — here’s some of the things that I found interesting: Hello, Pulumi Joe Duffy announces Pulumi, a new cloud development platform that lets you write code — real...
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New to Microsoft 365 in June—streamlining teamwork and security
This month, we introduced several new capabilities that streamline the management of common tasks and enhance identity-driven security measures to improve and protect the user experience in Microsoft...
View ArticlePublishing times for Microsoft Store just got faster!
Updating your Microsoft Store listing is the best way to let customers know more about your app or game. You might want to update the description to call out key features, or add new screenshots and...
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Detecting that a .NET Core app is running in a Docker Container and...
I have moved my podcast site over to ASP.NET Core 2.1 and I've got it running in a Docker container. Take a moment a check out some of the blog posts, as I've been blogging as I've been learning. I've...
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John Wiley & Sons reinvents its digital culture with the Microsoft Cloud
Today’s post was written by Pete Sattler, senior vice president and CIO at John Wiley & Sons. As we watch the physical book, magazine, and newsprint markets decline by double digits every year,...
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Changes to script debugging in Visual Studio 15.7
We’re always looking for ways to make developing with Visual Studio faster. One of the tasks developers do many times a day is launching debugging sessions. We identified that script debugging added...
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Announcing C++ Just My Code Stepping in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2017 release 15.8 Preview 3 we’re announcing support for Just My Code stepping for C++. In addition to previously supported callstack filtering, the Visual Studio debugger now also...
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Global Migration, animated with R
The animation below, by Shanghai University professor Guy Abel, shows migration within and between regions of the world from 1960 to 2015. The data and the methodology behind the chart is described in...
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Because it’s Friday: Wavy Lines Illusion
Another fine illusion: in this one, the pairs of horizontal lines are all smooth sine curves, despite the appearance of the jagged zig-zags: It's really hard for me at least to tell that the zig-zags...
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Migrating IoT Edge solutions to GA
On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, we announced the general availability of Azure IoT Edge. This release adds tons of new features for those already using public preview bits. Customers who have never used...
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Monitor Azure Data Factory pipelines using Operations Management Suite
Data Integration solutions can be complex with many moving parts involving complex data factories with multiple pipelines. Monitoring provides data to ensure that your data factory pipelines stay up...
View ArticleAzure Backup hosts Ask Me Anything session
The Azure Backup team will host a special Ask Me Anything session on Twitter, Tuesday, June 26, 2018 from 7:30 AM to 11:30 AM PST. You can tweet to @AzureBackup or @AzureSupport with #AzureBackupAMA...
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Azure Databricks provides the best Apache Spark™-based analytics solution for...
Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based analytics platform to accelerate and simplify the process of building Big Data and AI solutions that drive the business...
View ArticleSupercharging the Git Commit Graph II: File Format
Earlier, we announced the commit-graph feature in Git 2.18 and talked about some of its performance benefits. Today, we’ll discuss some if the technical details about how the commit-graph feature...
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Spoken Language Identification in Video Indexer
We are excited to share that Video Indexer has a new capability, Spoken Language Identification (LID)! A common ask from our customers has been to enable indexing of videos or batches of videos,...
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Securing the connection between Power BI and Azure SQL Database
How can you connect to Azure SQL Database from the Power BI service in a secure fashion? The easiest way to limit access to the database is to select the “allow access to Azure Services” option...
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Azure.Source – Volume 38
Announcements at GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit Microsoft from GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit: New Azure innovations will advance the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge - Mark Russinovich CTO, Microsoft...
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