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Using gganimate to illustrate the luminance illusion
Many illusions are based on the fact that our perceptions of color or brightness of an object are highly dependent on the background surrounding the object. For example, in this image (an example of...
View ArticleASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: HTTP/2 in Kestrel
As part of the 2.2.0-preview1 release, we’ve added support for HTTP/2 in Kestrel. What is HTTP/2? HTTP/2 is a major revision of the HTTP protocol. Some of the notable features of HTTP/2 are support for...
View ArticleASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: Healthchecks
What is it? We’re adding a health checks service and middleware in 2.2.0 to make it easy to use ASP.NET Core in environments that require health checks – such as Kubernetes. The new features are set of...
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 now generally available in France and Australia
Today, we announce the broader regional availability of the industry-leading performance provided by Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure SQL DW). Azure SQL DW is a fast, flexible, and secure analytics...
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Speech Services August 2018 update
We are pleased to announce the release of another update to the Cognitive Services Speech SDK (version 0.6.0). With this release, we have added the support for Java on Windows 10 (x64) and Linux (x64)....
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Cross-subscription disaster recovery for Azure virtual machines
Today, we are glad to announce cross-subscription disaster recovery (DR) support for Azure virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery (ASR). You can now configure DR for Azure IaaS applications to a...
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ASP.NET Core 2.20-preview1: Open API Analyzers & Conventions
What is it? Open API (alternatively known as Swagger) is a language-agnostic specification for describing REST APIs. The Open API ecosystem has tools that allows for discovering, testing and producing...
View ArticleASP.NET Core 2.2.0-preview1: SignalR Java Client
In ASP.NET Core 2.2 we are introducing a Java Client for SignalR. The first preview of this new client is available now. This client supports connecting to an ASP.NET Core SignalR Server from Java...
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Video: Azure Machine Learning in plain English
Data Scientist and author Siraj Raval recently released a 12-minute video overview of Azure Machine Learning (embedded at the end of this post). The video begins with a overview of cloud computing and...
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension August 2018 Update
Late last week we shipped the August 2018 update to the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. This update included support for “Just My Code” symbol search, a gcc-x64 option in the intelliSenseMode...
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The Chartmaker Directory: Data visualizations in every tool
Working with a new data visualization tool, and wondering how to create a specific type of chart? The Chartmaker Directory (designed by Andy Kirk) indexes more than 35 tools and over 50 charts, and...
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Air France elevates customer service and empowers employees with Office 365
Today’s post was written by Amel Hammouda, chief transformation officer at Air France and a member of the Air France executive committee. Whether they’re traveling overseas for business, taking a...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.08.24
I don’t know about y’all, but it’s been a long week here on the VSTS team. I’m beat! And when I’m tired, it gets hard to focus on those little letters on my LCD. So this week I’m linking you to a bunch...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: One Million Integers
This is a visualization of numbers from 1 to 1,000,000, added in order in blocks of 1,000, located in the 2-D plane according to their prime factors: The animation was created by John Williamson. The...
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Decoding an SSH Key from PEM to BASE64 to HEX to ASN.1 to prime decimal numbers
I'm reading a new chapter of The Imposter's Handbook: Season 2 that Rob and I are working on. He's digging into the internals of what's exactly in your SSH Key.I generated a key with no...
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Accelerating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare using Microsoft Azure...
Artificial Intelligence holds major potential for healthcare, from predicting patient length of stay to diagnostic imaging, anti-fraud, and many more use cases. To be successful in using AI,...
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Monitoring environmental conditions near underwater datacenters using Deep...
This blog post is co-authored by Xiaoyong Zhu, Nile Wilson (Microsoft AI CTO Office), Ben Cutler (Project Natick), and Lucas Joppa (Microsoft Chief Environmental Officer). At Microsoft, we put our...
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Azure Marketplace new offers: July 16-31
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From July 16 to 31, 50 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Virtual Machines...
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Sharing a self-hosted Integration Runtime infrastructure with multiple Data...
The Integration Runtime (IR) is the compute infrastructure used by Azure Data Factory to provide data integration capabilities across different network environments. If you need to perform data...
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Azure.Source – Volume 46
Now in preview Reduce your exposure to brute force attacks from the virtual machine blade - One way to reduce exposure to an attack is to limit the amount of time that a port on your virtual machine is...
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