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Building the future together: Microsoft and NVIDIA announce AI advancements at GTC DC
29 Oct 2025
New offerings in Azure AI Foundry give businesses an enterprise-grade platform to build, deploy, and scale AI applications and agents. The post Building the future together: Microsoft and NVIDIA annou
Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work
29 Oct 2025
At Universe 2025, GitHub’s next evolution introduces a single, unified workflow for developers to be able to orchestrate any agent, any time, anywhere. The post Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Fully managed cloud-to-cloud transfers with Azure Storage Mover
29 Oct 2025
Move data from Files Shares and NAS Storage into Azure Object and File storage with minimal disruption. The post Fully managed cloud-to-cloud transfers with Azure Storage Mover appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure
29 Oct 2025
We’re proud that Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Q
The Signals Loop: Fine-tuning for world-class AI apps and agents
23 Oct 2025
Autonomous workflows, powered by real-time feedback and continuous learning, are becoming essential for productivity and decision-making. The post The Signals Loop: Fine-tuning for world-class AI apps
Innovation spotlight: How 3 customers are driving change with migration to Azure SQL
23 Oct 2025
Learn how Microsoft Azure SQL Managed Instance helps organizations move from legacy constraints to a scalable and secure AI-ready foundation. The post Innovation spotlight: How 3 customers are driving
From queries to conversations: Unlock insights about your data using Azure Storage Discovery—now generally available
22 Oct 2025
We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Storage Discovery. The post From queries to conversations: Unlock insights about your data using Azure Storage Discovery—now generally available appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Sora 2 now available in Azure AI Foundry
22 Oct 2025
Turning imagination into reality has never been more possible—or more powerful—than it is today. With OpenAI’s Sora 2 now in public preview in Azure AI Foundry, organizations of all sizes can harness
Oracle Database@Azure offers new features, regions, and programs to unlock data and AI innovation
17 Oct 2025
Oracle Database@Azure adds new AI-ready features, expands to 33 regions, and launches new partner and migration programs The post Oracle Database@Azure offers new features, regions, and programs to un
Accelerating open-source infrastructure development for frontier AI at scale
17 Oct 2025
Microsoft is contributing new standards across power, cooling, sustainability, security, networking, and fleet resiliency to advance innovation. The post Accelerating open-source infrastructure develo
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
