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Microsoft launches Expressive Pixels app to help you create animations
Microsoft has launched a new open source app for Windows 10 which has been designed to help users create and share animated content. The company says that the primary target for these animations is small, third-party LED panels but Microsoft…
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Microsoft Expressive Pixels 1.55
It is hard to find anything to compare Microsoft Expressive Pixels to – it really is quite a unique piece of software. The app is pleasingly easy to use, and the fact that there is such an active online community…
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Microsoft Research launches new Expressive Pixels platform
Microsoft Research has just announced a new Expressive Pixels platform dedicated to users who want to create and display animations on LED displays and other digital devices, including PCs. This Windows 10 project is the result of years of hard…
In the news | The Register
Here’s a sprite idea: PC pokers push pixels to LED displays with Microsoft’s new platform for non-verbal comms
Microsoft has dropped a beta of Expressive Pixels, a delightfully retro editor aimed at flinging animated visuals at LED displays. Designed for nonverbal communication, the software has both the worthy goal of improving accessibility as well as being an amusing toy.
In the news | Windows Blog
Microsoft Expressive Pixels: a platform for creativity, inclusion and innovation
You’re sitting at your PC, at home, working remotely. You’ve got a partner who is doing the same. Without requiring you to even turn around, an LED display visible to anyone near you lights up an emoji: a stop sign.…
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Domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing
COVID-19 highlights a perennial problem facing scientists around the globe: how do we stay up to date with the cutting edge of scientific knowledge? In just a few months since the pandemic emerged, tens of thousands of research papers have…
In the news | MSPoweruser
Microsoft Research announce TileCode, a game creation app that can run on handhelds
Microsoft Research has announced a new project – Microsoft TileCode, (opens in new tab) which is a game creation app that allows you to design, code, and play video games directly on low-cost Microsoft MakeCode Arcade gaming handhelds (opens in new tab), as well…
In the news | The Denver Channel
How technology is reshaping the way we farm
The oldest industry in the world is merging with the modern world as technology is helping farmers and making farms more sustainable. Farming has always been a part of Ranveer Chandra’s life. When he was a kid, memories were made…
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft researchers claim ‘state-of-the-art’ biomedical NLP model
In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft researchers propose an AI technique they call domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical natural language processing (NLP). By compiling a “comprehensive” biomedical (NLP) benchmark from publicly available data sets, the…