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It is hard to find anything to compare Microsoft Expressive Pixels to – it really is quite a unique piece of software. The app is pleasingly easy to use, and the fact that there is…

Parece que Microsoft sigue trabajando para ofrecer creatividad en diferentes ámbitos. Expressive Pixels es la última muestra de ello y nos encanta. Demuestra que los de Redmond están ofreciendo paulatinamente nuevas soluciones para cambiar la…

Microsoft Research has just announced a new Expressive Pixels platform dedicated to users who want to create and display animations on LED displays and other digital devices, including PCs. This Windows 10 project is the…

You’re sitting at your PC, at home, working remotely. You’ve got a partner who is doing the same. Without requiring you to even turn around, an LED display visible to anyone near you lights up…

COVID-19 highlights a perennial problem facing scientists around the globe: how do we stay up to date with the cutting edge of scientific knowledge? In just a few months since the pandemic emerged, tens of…

Art is one of the few languages which transcends barriers of country, culture, and time. Most people view art subjectively through a lens shaped by their experiences and environment. Finding commonalities among pieces from different…

Early on a Saturday morning in January, Juan Lavista-Ferres, who leads Microsoft’s AI for Good research lab, penned an urgent email to his team. Although there were fewer than 2,000 cases worldwide of a yet-unnamed…

Since the first IntelliCode (opens in new tab) code completion model was shipped in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code in 2018, it has become an essential coding assistant for millions of developers around the world. In the past two years, we have been working tirelessly to enable IntelliCode for more programming languages and, in the meantime, researching ways to improve the model…

Johannes Schönberger received the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize at ECCV 2020 (opens in new tab) for his selfless contribution to developing and maintaining the COLMAP SFM and MVS software library which provides an open-source end-to-end…