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AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.
06 Jun 2026
We are building a comprehensive agent platform: one that supports many models, is open, and gives you flexibility at every layer of the stack. The post AI alone won’t change your business. The system
Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview
06 Jun 2026
At Microsoft Build, we are announcing that Microsoft Discovery is now generally available for all organizations, providing a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows. The
Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases
06 Jun 2026
Microsoft Build 2026 highlights advancements in app development with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, emphasizing a unified data and AI platform for scalable, agentic applications. The post M
New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads
06 Jun 2026
We are announcing the early access preview for Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based Virtual Machines (VMs), designed for Linux-based agentic AI workloads. The post New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performan
Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval
06 Jun 2026
Build smarter agents with Microsoft Foundry IQ, unifying enterprise and external data into a secure, scalable knowledge layer for faster, higher-quality answers. The post Foundry IQ: Build smarter age
A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry
06 Jun 2026
Microsoft Foundry helps teams move beyond model access to operate AI at scale—selecting, evaluating, optimizing, and governing models across the full lifecycle. The post A Developer’s Guide to Managin
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry
01 Jun 2026
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, giving developers and enterprises access to Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, agentic tasks, and professional work. The post Claude
Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster networking for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
26 May 2026
With Cilium-based cross-cluster networking, we are delivering a managed, high-performance network that can span your entire fleet. The post Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster
Azure NetApp Files for EDA workloads: From revolution to breakthrough at scale
26 May 2026
Azure NetApp Files is redefining what’s possible for EDA in the cloud—delivering scalable, high-performance storage that supports massive concurrency, low latency, and consistent production performanc
Azure IaaS: Deploy high-performance workloads with a system-level approach
26 May 2026
Performance in the cloud is no longer defined by individual resources—it’s shaped by how compute, storage, and networking work together. Azure IaaS takes a system-level approach to help organizations
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
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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
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The history of safety glass
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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?
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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.
