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In the news | Harvard Business Review
What a Year of WFH Has Done to Our Relationships at Work
More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and WFH, new research from Microsoft shows that employees and teams are becoming much more siloed. In particular, connections with people outside our immediate teams has shrunk dramatically, leading to fewer places…
In the news | Fierce Healthcare
Boosted by Microsoft’s tech, Adaptive Biotechnologies’ new diagnostic test for COVID-19 gets FDA nod
Adaptive Biotechnologies launched a new diagnostic test for COVID-19 that uses machine learning technology from Microsoft to detect prior coronavirus infections. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the biotech company’s T-cell-based…
In the news | Microsoft Anti-Corruption Technology and Solutions
Tackling corruption with transparency and technology
Part 1: Making a difference with data A fundamental question when attempting to tackle any sufficiently complex problem is, “How can data make a difference?” While this question applies to all problem areas across business, government, and society, it especially…
In the news | Microsoft On the Issues
Microsoft launches Anti-Corruption Technology and Solutions (ACTS)
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the United Nations’ International Anti-Corruption Day. On this day, Microsoft is proud to join with others from around the world to use our voice in support of International Anti-Corruption Day and to commit to…
In the news | Microsoft Stories
Quiet collective: The unseen experts behind Microsoft’s coronavirus response
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 disease with little data available,…
In the news | TED2020
COVID-19 unraveled the workforce. Here’s how to fix it
“We are living through the tech-enabled unraveling of full-time employment itself,” says anthropologist Mary L. Gray. As the pandemic exposes and accelerates the shift to on-demand online labor, Gray takes us inside the jobs being created to solve the problems…
In the news | Microsoft Bing Blogs
Extracting Covid-19 insights from Bing search data
The Covid-19 pandemic has created a global health crisis that is unprecedented in our lifetimes. It is hard to point to any other health crisis in recent history that has captivated the collective mindset of the entire human population all…
In the news | Medium
‘Colorblind’ Tech is Killing Us: Why COVID-19 Tech Must Focus on Equity
COVID-19 has taken the lives of more than 120,000 people in the United States and debilitated millions more since arriving on our shores. While anyone can contract the virus, there is a pattern to who gets sick and dies from…
In the news | VentureBeat
AI model uses smartphone location data to predict power grid usage
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and the University of Washington researchers propose an AI system that uses smartphone location data to forecast electrical load. They say their architecture, which takes into account data from geographical…