digital twins

Cities are now building resilient infrastructure not by gut instinct or decade-old plans, but by folding trusted AI, digital twins, and federated data systems into everyday operations—shifting the work of resilience from reactive firefighting to anticipatory, prioritized action. Background: why...

AVEVA’s latest push to centralise engineering, asset and real‑time operational data onto its CONNECT industrial intelligence platform marks a clear step toward the industry’s long‑running goal: a single, trusted digital thread that powers scalable digital twins, AI analytics and cross‑functional...

The manufacturing sector is undergoing a seismic shift as AI, cloud platforms and digital‑thread approaches converge to remake how products are designed, validated and delivered—reducing downtime, accelerating time‑to‑market and opening new routes to resilience and scale. Background...

Global Objects is using a mix of cinema-grade capture rigs, cloud-scale compute, and NVIDIA-accelerated tooling to assemble what it calls a marketplace-sized library of photoreal, production-ready 3D objects—digital twins of real props, products, and environments intended for film, XR...

Digital twins are moving from engineering demos and marketing decks into the operational heart of cities and heavy industry, promising faster decisions, lower life‑cycle costs, and measurably greener infrastructure—but that promise comes with technical complexity, governance questions, and new...

Microsoft Research’s Cambridge lab has revealed the second-generation Analog Optical Computer (AOC), a hybrid photonic–analog prototype that uses light, commodity optics and analog electronics to accelerate both AI inference and combinatorial optimization — promising orders-of-magnitude gains in...

Dr. William L. Bain’s career bridges the arc of modern parallel computing — from Bell Labs and Intel research labs through a Microsoft acquisition to founding ScaleOut Software — and his work today pushes operational intelligence and in‑memory computing into production systems where latency...

Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA have quietly become the engine room for a new wave of scientific discovery — and three startups in the Catalyst series show how GPU-accelerated cloud infrastructure is being used to translate raw data into concrete outcomes in medicine, biology, and digital...

Manufacturers face a pivotal moment: cloud modernization paired with AI is no longer an optional efficiency play but a strategic imperative that can reshape product lifecycles, R&D velocity, and factory-floor operations at scale, as outlined in a recent industry brief that catalogs major...

Microsoft’s public push to marry artificial intelligence, edge computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has moved from concept to catalogue: Azure IoT Edge runtime, Azure Sphere, Azure Digital Twins and a string of enterprise pilots show a deliberate strategy to make IoT development faster...

NVIDIA’s decision to host Omniverse Cloud on Microsoft Azure marks a turning point for enterprises that want to build large-scale, secure digital twin and industrial simulation environments without the friction of managing complex, GPU‑heavy infrastructure themselves. The collaboration —...

A Mission to Bring the Clean Energy Future Subtitle: How a Microsoft Garage hackathon project — now a commercial workstream — is using generative AI to break permitting bottlenecks and accelerate the global energy transition By: WindowsForum Staff Writer Lede: A Microsoft Hackathon prototype...

Altizon Inc., a leader in Digital Factory Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), has recently unveiled the APEX Alliance, a strategic reseller and channel program aimed at empowering industrial and operational technology (OT) solution providers to build profitable AI businesses on Microsoft Azure. This...

In the evolving landscape of digital communication, the quest for more immersive, authentic, and accessible virtual meeting experiences has taken center stage. While mainstream video conferencing has become a fixture of daily work and social life, the two-dimensional nature of standard webcam...

The industrial IoT and AI landscape has just received a significant boost with the recent launch of the Altizon Partner EXcellence (APEX) Alliance, a program designed to accelerate the adoption of Industrial AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. This strategic initiative, spearheaded by Altizon, an...

Altizon's recent migration of its entire product portfolio to Microsoft Azure marks a significant milestone in the realm of industrial digital transformation. This strategic move not only enhances the scalability and reliability of Altizon's offerings but also unlocks a suite of AI-driven...

The evolution of the energy grid has quickly become one of the defining technological challenges of our time. As the lines between traditional utilities, critical infrastructure, and digital ecosystems blur, the quest to reimagine grid operations with artificial intelligence (AI) stands out as...

The digital transformation sweeping across industries today is fundamentally reshaping how we conceive and manage the spaces in which we live, work, and learn. Buildings of the future, promised for decades, are at last beginning to transition beyond passive structures into dynamic, adaptive...

Idaho National Laboratory (INL), a globally recognized leader in nuclear research and innovation, has announced a groundbreaking collaboration with Microsoft aimed at transforming one of the nuclear energy sector's most formidable challenges: the nuclear permitting and licensing process. This...

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Microsoft have announced a collaboration to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline the nuclear power plant licensing process in the United States. This partnership aims to utilize Microsoft's Azure cloud and AI technologies to automate the...