CADSA, which launches in the Spring 2022 semester, will offer master’s degrees in applied data science and hold racial equity and inclusive growth events. Howard University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Anthony Wutoh said the center will “use data science to answer some of the broader societal questions we believe Howard can significantly impact, including those around health care and economic disparities.” “Data science touches everything, and it’s going to continue to be increasingly impactful in everything that we do,” Wutoh said....

The Matterport Capture app, available for iOS and Android devices, works in a similar way, but is designed to provide a more precise and professional solution for business users in fields such as retail, real estate, and construction or architecture. The Capture app has been available for a few years, and Matterport also sells a number of specialised 3D cameras, as well as offering a Capture service with professional staff who can record scenes and locations for you....

I think I know that I can jaywalk in some countries, but not others. I think I know that oat milk in coffee tastes like yogurt in tea. And I think I know that younger generations are always ahead of older generations in knowing how the world should be. Younger generations see things to which older generations are blinkered – you know, things like the Earth may soon self-immolate, while older generations remain focused on their golf swings....

COPA announced the membership on Monday, saying that the addition of Meta is the biggest cryptocurrency patent commitment to date. COPA was created in 2020 and encourages crypto innovation by lowering the chance of patent litigation by building open-source environments to protect core technologies for all users. Meta will also be joining COPA’s board and will have to adhere to COPA’s patent pledge. The pledge states that a member may not “enforce its core cryptocurrency patents against anyone, except for defensive reasons, effectively making these patents freely available for all to use....

On February 17, Microsoft used Google’s circumventing of certain privacy settings on iPhones, iPads and Macs as a reason to tout IE’s superiority in terms of privacy protection. But on February 20, in a post to the IEBlog, Microsoft officials admitted that Google also skirted IE users’ privacy settings, as well. Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President of IE, blogged: In today’s blog post, Hachamovitch explained why IE also is vulnerable to Google’s cookie practices:...

Microsoft has already said the new Bing is “much more powerful” than OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 AI model behind ChatGPT. Public experimentation, however, quickly showed the chatbot feature was prone to unexpected outbursts, which prompted Microsoft to limit the number of “chat turns” to five per session to stop it becoming confused. In Depth: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out Now, Microsoft’s CVP of search and AI, Jordi Ribas, has shared some details about Prometheus – Microsoft’s proprietary model that meshes Bing with OpenAI’s GPT model to generate more relevant results in Bing – and how it went about building the new Bing....

Microsoft recently announced plans to enable users to run Azure SQL Managed Instance – a cloud version of SQL Server – on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises. This Arc-enabled Azure SQL capability will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021.

Cooking requires a beautiful mixture of patience and imagination. Soccer requires a blissful mixture of coordination and determination. On the other hand, annoying your customers takes a dastardly concoction of heinous chilliness and sublime indifference. Currently, too many big tech companies are at it. For as long as I can recall, however, Microsoft has displayed a particular ability to annoy – nay, actively anger – its customers while appearing to be oblivious of their feelings....

Wiz said all PHP, Node, Ruby, and Python applications that were deployed using “Local Git” on a clean default application in Azure App Service since September 2017 are affected. They added that all PHP, Node, Ruby, and Python applications that were deployed in Azure App Service from September 2017 onward using any Git source – after a file was created or modified in the application container – were also affected....

In the Redmond giant’s latest round of patches, usually released on the second Tuesday of each month in what is known as Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed problems including remote code execution (RCE) exploits, privilege escalation flaws, spoofing issues, and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Products impacted by January 2022’s security update include Microsoft Exchange Server, the Office software line, Windows Defender, Windows Kernel, RDP, Cryptographic Services, Windows Certificate, and Microsoft Teams....

“Bringing VS Code to the browser is the realization of the original vision for the product. It is also the start of a completely new one. An ephemeral editor that is available to anyone with a browser and an internet connection is the foundation for a future where we can truly edit anything from anywhere,” Microsoft’s blog post concluded.

Microsoft released its ElectionGuard software development kit in the run-up to the 2020 US presidential election, promising a way to secure the integrity of votes placed on electronic voting machines. SEE: Guide to Becoming a Digital Transformation Champion (TechRepublic Premium) Microsoft’s system offers voters a tracking code on an election website where they can verify that their vote has been counted and not altered. The code also doesn’t reveal what party the voter chose....

Today’s Patch Tuesday fixes and updates also should bring to Windows 11 users some of the new features that Microsoft began rolling out in preview a couple of weeks ago, including the aforementioned Android apps on Windows. Mainstream (non-Insider tester) customers could manually download the handful of new Windows 11 features as of February 15.

But the Skype team has posted an upbeat blog about its “future plans” and says the app isn’t going anywhere. It also promises the app performs faster and matches the experiences people have come to expect from Zoom, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and other rivals. “Skype has been in our lives for nearly two decades, and we are here to stay,” the Skype team wrote. SEE: Remote working jobs row shows how much tech has changed Microsoft bought Skype for $8....

When a company comes out and tells you something is new and wonderful and will completely change how you live, work, and breathe, you want to believe it. Even though you’re sitting there quietly giggling. Yes, of course we’re talking about Windows 11. When Microsoft launched the latest lexicon of its looking glass, the company and its people made some extraordinary statements. Here’s an example from the company’s creative director, Christina Koehn: “We’ve got these four squares....

The official Microsoft response from a spokesperson when I asked about the value proposition of Windows on Arm: “With Surface Pro 9 and the upcoming Windows Dev Kit 2023 in mind, we believe the continued investments we’re making in Windows on Arm will ultimately benefit customers and the entire Windows ecosystem.”

Teams users can now delete chats and remove themselves from a conversation without impacting other participants in the same chat conversation. Users can also add new participants to a chat with an @mention, while Teams will now recommend colleagues for a conversation. “Using AI, Teams chat will assist you in initiating new conversations by recommending colleagues based on your previous collaborations”. This feature will be generally available by the end of the year, Microsoft said in a blogpost....

Microsoft is not planning to offer Extended Security Updates for Windows 8.1 as it has done for Windows 7. That means there will be no way to continue to get security updates for Windows 8.1 after January 10, 2023. Microsoft is advocating that users on Windows 8.1 go to Windows 11, but Windows 10 is another option. Windows 10 will continue to be supported by Microsoft and receive security updates until October 14, 2025....