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Hart And Microsoft Announce Partnership To Make Elections More Secure, Verifiable
On Thursday, Hart InterCivic and Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership to incorporate ElectionGuard software developed by Microsoft into Hart’s Verity® voting systems. The partnership makes Hart the first major voting machine manufacturer in the United States to provide end-to-end verifiability to voters, giving individual voters the ability to confirm their ballots were counted in an …
LaLiga Teams Up With Microsoft To Digitally Transform Football Globally And Reimagine A New Era In Sports
LaLiga, Spain’s premier football association, and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced an expansion of their partnership focused on digitally transforming the sports experience globally. The companies will also collaborate on developing technology solutions to the media and entertainment industry through LaLiga’s technology offering, LaLiga Tech. As LaLiga’s global Tech and Innovation Partner, Microsoft will help …
Microsoft And Darktrace Partnership Extends Autonomous Cyber Defense Across The Cloud
Darktrace, a leading autonomous cyber security AI company, today announced that it has joined forces with software giant Microsoft. The partnership provides mutual customers with enterprise-scale, self-learning AI that detects and autonomously responds to cyber-threats. This collaboration amplifies Darktrace’s self-learning artificial intelligence for cyber security within Microsoft environments, including Microsoft 365 and cloud applications like Azure Sentinel. As …
Intel Collaborates With Microsoft Against Cryptojacking
What’s New: Starting today, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint expands its use of Intel® Threat Detection Technology (Intel® TDT) beyond accelerated memory scanning capabilities to activate central processing unit (CPU) based cryptomining machine learning (ML) detection. This move further accelerates endpoint detection and response for millions of customers without compromising experience. “This is a true inflection …
30 Million People Worldwide Acquire Digital Skills During COVID-19
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced it has helped over 30 million people in 249 countries and territories gain access to digital skills, topping its initial goal of 25 million last June, and is extending the company’s commitment to help 250,000 companies make a skills-based hire in 2021. From laid-off factory workers to retail associates and truck …
Schlumberger And Microsoft Expand Partnership To Bring Open, Enterprise-Scale Data Management To The Energy Industry
Schlumberger and Microsoft announced an expanded strategic partnership to accelerate new technologies for the energy industry. The first offering, the Schlumberger Enterprise Data Management Solution for the OSDU Data Platform—a new industry standard for energy data—is available today. Energy companies will now benefit from an OSDU-compliant solution, and the ability to seamlessly connect to the …
Technology And Media Entities Join Forces To Create Standards Group Aimed At Building Trust In Online Content
A group of influential technology and media companies has partnered to form the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), a Joint Development Foundation project established to address the prevalence of disinformation, misinformation and online content fraud through developing technical standards for certifying the source and history or provenance of media content. Founding members Adobe, …
Google Cloud-Nokia Venture Highlights Battle For 5G Network Edge
Google Cloud Platform has arguably been late to the party as network operators become more comfortable with placing network flows on public clouds. However, its joint venture with Nokia announced in January is likely to increase its credibility with network operators. Google Cloud and Nokia announced a partnership in January to develop joint cloud-native 5G …
Broad Institute And Verily Partner With Microsoft To Accelerate The Next Generation Of The Terra platform For Health And Life Science Research
On Monday, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Verily, an Alphabet company, and Microsoft Corp. announced a strategic partnership to accelerate new innovations in biomedicine through the Terra platform. Terra, originally developed by Verily and the Broad Institute, is a secure, scalable, open-source platform for biomedical researchers to access data, run analysis tools and collaborate. …
UNICEF And Microsoft Launch Improved, Scalable Technology To Protect Vulnerable Children And Women Amid Rise In Domestic And Gender-based Violence Due To COVID-19
UNICEF and Microsoft Corp. launched a new version of Primero called Primero X — an open source case management web application that helps social service providers coordinate critical support to vulnerable children. Key interventions include providing access to lifesaving services, such as family reunification and tracing, while still adhering to physical distancing and movement restrictions …