Microsoft Sales of Media Player, Web Browser ‘Problematic’: Chinese Regulator by REUTERS


By REUTERS

Microsoft Corp’s sales of its media player and internet browser software in China have been “problematic,” a Chinese antitrust regulator said on Tuesday, in response to questions about an ongoing anti-monopoly probe into the technology giant.

Published: August 25, 2014 at 12:00AM

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The Plan to Build a Massive Online Brain for All The World’s Robots


The Plan to Build a Massive Online Brain for All The World’s Robots
Today, backed by funding from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm, roboticist Ashutosh Saxena and his team unveiled what they call “RoboBrain,” a kind of online service packed with information and artificial intelligence software that any robot could tap into.

August 25, 2014 at 5:05PM
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