As South Africa confronts high youth unemployment, a growing number of voices are calling for urgent investment in practical skills development. Leading this call is Oxford University Press SA (OUP SA ...

Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, announced a breakthrough in optical computing, published in Nature. The analog optical computer, developed by Microsoft Research, uses light for calculations instead of ...

Microsoft Research has built a prototype computer that doesn’t rely on electrons zipping through silicon but on beams of light. The machine, called an analog optical computer (AOC), is designed to ...

Microsoft has teamed up with Barclays on a novel approach to tackling artificial intelligence (AI) and optimisation problems based on a scalable analogue optical computer (AOC) architecture, designed ...

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CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

Researchers have disrupted an operation attributed to the Russian state-sponsored threat group Midnight Blizzard, which sought access to Microsoft 365 accounts and data. Also known as APT29, the ...

Tech firms are offering millions for AI pros amid the Silicon Valley talent wars. Excel, however, is still the top tech skill in job listings. Excel, released in 1985, remains crucial for managing ...

Microsoft says that Word for Windows will soon enable autosave and automatically save all new documents to the cloud by default. The company is currently testing this new feature with the help of ...

Microsoft is refusing to tell Scottish policing bodies where and how the sensitive law enforcement data uploaded to its cloud services will be processed, citing “commercial confidentiality”. As part ...