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Open Confidential Computing Conference (OC3)

OC3 is the conference for the open-source confidential computing community. Join core committers and contributors, new and advanced users, as… Read More

Illustration: D-Orbit ION in orbit

The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably… Read More

Visualization of global cloud connections

Lockheed Martin teams up with Microsoft on classified cloud services for Pentagon

Lockheed Martin and Microsoft say they’re deepening their strategic relationship to help power the next generation of computing and communications… Read More

Illustration: Axiom Space modules attached to International Space Station

LEOcloud, Microsoft team up with Axiom Space to put cloud infrastructure in orbit

When Houston-based Axiom Space starts putting together its commercial space station, some out-of-this-world infrastructure for cloud computing could be close… Read More

Earth with satellites

Microsoft and Amazon take on new roles in Pentagon’s space communication plans

Microsoft Azure Space, Amazon Web Services and Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network are now among the Pentagon’s partners in a… Read More

Starlink antenna and Azure Stack Edge device set up in forest

Microsoft Azure ramps up access to cloud computing via SpaceX’s Starlink satellites

With SpaceX’s help, Microsoft is taking the next step toward merging cloud computing with available-anywhere satellite connectivity. Today Microsoft announced… Read More

NOAA-18 in orbit

Microsoft and Xplore team up with NOAA to demonstrate cloud-based satellite operations

What do you do with an aging weather satellite? If you’re the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, you turn to… Read More

Illustration showing pi and pie

Google developers set another record for calculating digits of pi: 100 trillion!

Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google set the world record for calculating… Read More

Steve Ballmer praises Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in Time’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ tribute

Calling him a “great leader” with “incredible intellectual capacity and curiosity,” former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer heaps praise on Andy… Read More

Boeing engineers at computer

Amazon, Google or Microsoft? Boeing chooses all of the above for cloud computing services

The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split.… Read More

Microsoft Azure widens its space ecosystem through deals with Airbus and data partners

One year after Microsoft expanded its Azure cloud domain to the final frontier, the company is taking another giant leap… Read More

Telesat Phase 1 LEO satellite

Microsoft and Ball Aerospace enlist the cloud to speed up Space Force’s data flow

How will Pentagon planners cope with the torrents of data that are expected to rain down from a constellation of… Read More

International Space Station

Microsoft and HPE team up to connect Azure cloud to International Space Station

The sky’s not the limit for the cloud: Microsoft is partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to bring Azure cloud computing… Read More

Microsoft joins $2B investment in Cruise to speed commercialization of self-driving vehicles

Microsoft is partnering with Cruise and General Motors to accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles by bringing its cloud computing… Read More

Satellite in orbit

Microsoft partners with SpaceX’s Starlink satellite service for Azure Space cloud platform

Microsoft says it’s taking the next giant leap in cloud computing, in partnership with SpaceX and its Starlink broadband satellite… Read More

Microsoft pulls underwater data center back to the surface to assess benefits of deep-sea cloud

Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland’s Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back… Read More

How the cloud helps lift ‘The Expanse’ and other science fiction epics out of this world

It used to take a cast of thousands to create cinematic extravaganzas, but now the job can be done with… Read More

Company reportedly exposed 752,000 birth certificate applications stored on Amazon Web Services

A company that lets users get copies of their birth and death certificates exposed more than 752,000 application documents it… Read More

SAP and Microsoft team up on 3-year cloud deal, strengthening relationship between tech giants

SAP and Microsoft struck a three-year partnership to help companies move their data to the cloud, a move that tightens… Read More

Oracle plans to hire 2,000 cloud workers; hundreds of open positions listed in Seattle

Oracle wants to ramp up its cloud business, and what better place to grow and pick off engineers than in… Read More

Universal blood test from Microsoft and Adaptive is a Google-sized data challenge

A novel effort from Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies to diagnose multiple diseases from a single blood test is a data… Read More

Microsoft will use AI to supercharge Novartis’ giant drug-development engine

Microsoft has reached a deal with pharmaceutical giant Novartis that aims to bring the power of artificial intelligence to drug… Read More

Microsoft and Disney aim to speed up movie and TV production with new ‘scene-to-screen’ cloud deal

Microsoft and The Walt Disney Co. agreed to a five-year deal to leverage the tech giant’s cloud prowess to speed… Read More

Indictment says accused Capital One hacker also used exploited cloud servers for cryptojacking

Updated with Vodafone statement. A federal grand jury indicted Paige Thompson, a former Amazon engineer, on multiple counts of wire… Read More

Microsoft milestone: Tech giant’s cloud revenue now matches traditional products, analyst says

Microsoft, which built its business on PC software like Windows and Office, has reached a tipping point in the cloud.… Read More

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is moving to the public cloud, and guess which platform it’s choosing?

LinkedIn is moving all its data to the public cloud — bringing the professional information and networks of 645 million… Read More

Microsoft and AT&T team up in multi-year cloud and 5G partnership

AT&T is turning to Microsoft as the telecommunications giant aims to step up its 5G offerings and move big chunks… Read More

Swarm of satellites

Lockheed Martin studies how to use a cloud of satellites for space missions

More and more computing is being done in the cloud, but so far, the cloud-based approach hasn’t been applied in… Read More

Microsoft-backed universal blood test could start diagnosing disease ‘within a small number of years’

REDMOND — A groundbreaking system that would use artificial intelligence to diagnose several diseases from a single blood test may… Read More

Seattle is the ‘landlord’ of the internet, thanks to Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud prowess

Depending on the day, Amazon and Microsoft are the two most valuable companies in the U.S., and a big part… Read More

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