data processing

When you think about the cloud, what comes to mind? For many of us, it's a boundless, abstract realm of data floating far above, accessible from anywhere. However, as the world becomes more interconnected and demands for instantaneous data grow, the very infrastructure on which the cloud is...

In a bold move that promises to revolutionize its cloud services, Microsoft has introduced the Azure Boost DPU (Data Processing Unit), a powerful in-house chip specifically engineered to optimize the performance and efficiency of its Azure ecosystem. Announced on November 20, 2024, this...

In a world where data comes at us like a relentless waterfall, Microsoft has just thrown us a life raft—well, more like a yacht! At the recent Ignite 2024 event, they announced the Azure AI Content Understanding service, a groundbreaking tool that seeks to redefine how we interact with...

Hi everyone, I'm facing a critical challenge with High-Performance Computing (HPC) on my Windows system, and it's causing major disruptions in my work. I rely heavily on HPC for running complex simulations and data processing tasks, but recently, I've noticed a severe slowdown and instability...

Hello everyone, As the field of technology continues to advance, Link Removed has emerged as a crucial concept, revolutionizing the way data is processed, stored, and managed. With the increasing demand for real-time data analysis and reduced latency, many companies are integrating edge...

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European authorities raise fresh concerns over Windows 10 data collection (via neowin.net) A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced changes to Windows 10 to offer users greater control over how it collects data about them from its devices and services. Among the changes were a new web privacy...

In the last post, you saw how AI is used to turn speech into text through the Cognitive Services Speech APIs. Once sounds have been converted into written text, they still have to be distilled for their meaning. Human language, however, is rich in ambiguities and understanding a sentence...

Hi, I am trying to extract information from one program, then import it into Excel. Well, the format it is extracted is not the format that is what I need. So, I have been manually deleting all the unneeded rows. My question is there a macro or C-Plus program that can delete these rows for me...

Hello, Makers! Earlier this year, we announced the availability of Windows IoT Core – a new edition of Windows designed for maker boards and small devices. We’ve been busy the past few months continuing to make improvements to the platform, with the goal of making Windows IoT Core the best...

This week's episode of Data Exposed welcomes Sahaj Saini, Program Manager on the SQL Server team. Today, Sahaj joins us from our southern California office to show us an exciting new feature of SQL Server 2016 called PolyBase. PolyBase simplifies management and querying of both relational and...

In this special episode Lara Rubbelke is joined by Shweta Gupta, a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. Shweta joins the show to talk about her experience helping a healthcare customer solve a big legacy data problem with Azure Data Factory. In this scenario, they wanted to use Streaming...

Today Dwight Goins shares a great example on using one of the coolest features of the Kinect v2, heart rate detection... Link Removed When the latest Kinect sensor was unveiled more than a year ago at Build 2014, demos showed how it could determine a user’s heart rate without attaching...

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (SSIS) Feature Pack for Azure provides SSIS the capability of connecting to Azure Blob Storage and Azure HDInsight. It enables you to create SSIS packages that transfer data between an Azure Blob Storage and on-premises data sources, and process...

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Anand Subbaraj, Senior Program Manager on the Azure Data Factory team. Anand joins us to talk about Azure Data Factory is a managed service which focuses on managing information production. This enables you to aggregate data from many...

I came across this analogy on ram timings which had me in stitches and thought it deserved a wider audience!

Dr. Ralf Lämmel returns for an exploration of folds, aka bananas. This is lecture 5 in his C9 Lecture series covering advanced functional programming topics. Welcome back, Ralf! We're so happy to have you here! Why bananas, Ralf? Banana is functional programming slang for "fold"—an application...

More RAM for less power is forecast in 2010 Analysis DDR3 hits 1.2V at 1333 and 1.35V at 1600 By Link Removed - Invalid URL Monday, 30 November 2009, 15:23 WHEN LOOKING AT PC system power consumption, the usual focus is on the CPU and GPU, followed by the chipset, disk drives and such...