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IoT-powered platform Particle has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to expand its suite of IoT development tools with the introduction of Particle Workbench, which aims to accelerate the time to market for IoT products.
The Particle Workbench will leverage Microsoft's code editor studio, Visual Studio Code, which according to Particle will offer IoT developers an "all-in-one and ready-to-use out-of-the-box experience to develop, program and debug professional-grade apps."
Particle CEO and co-founder, Zach Supalla said: "Our vision is to provide a fully integrated, seamless platform for developers to build the best IoT products possible, without the need to piece together individual costly features.
"We made the choice to work with Microsoft on the release of Particle Workbench in response to the urging of our customers who wanted access to a robust desktop development tool. Microsoft's leadership in building developer experiences and commitment to open source made them a natural choice," he added. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=makerspace https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=IoT
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Microsoft says AI and machine learning driven by open source and the cloud
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are rapidly gaining importance, and Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure chief technology officer, believes it's because of open-source software and the cloud.
Yes, Microsoft just announced that the next major edition of Windows 10 will support artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). But, marketing hype aside, Microsoft knows darn well that the real heavy lifting for AI and ML happens on the cloud with open-source software. That was the message Mark Russinovich, Microsoft's Azure CTO, brought to The Linux Foundation's Open Source Leadership Summit (OSLS) in Sonoma, CA.
Russinovich opened by saying:
AI technologies and techniques are experiencing a renaissance. Open-source technologies and communities have fostered the growth of self-taught machine learning developers with libraries and frameworks. The computing power of the cloud has made the processing of large data sets cost effective and commonplace. As more research continues to be done and shared throughout the communities we will continue to see more intelligent apps driving even greater adoption of open-source technologies across all processing platforms.
Specifically, he mentioned two examples where Microsoft is using the cloud and open source to help provide solutions with customers. The first is with Rolls-Royce aircraft engines which use ML to track their wear and tear. This data is then used with AI to proactively maintain the engines.
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Microsoft is out to prove blockchain naysayers wrong. In an effort to show the potential of the technology beyond its applications in cryptocurrency, the Redmond giant has announced plans to use blockchain tech as the foundation for storing and processing digital identity data.
Following a collaboration with the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), Microsoft has revealed its plans to rely on blockchain technology to solve some of the challenges we face when managing our identities and personal data digitally, such as improving privacy and security across the physical and digital world.
“We believe it is essential for individuals to own and control all elements of their digital identity,” the company said in a blog post. “Rather than grant broad consent to countless apps and services, and have their identity data spread across numerous providers, individuals need a secure, encrypted digital hub where they can store their identity data and easily control access to it.”
To this end, the company is developing an off-chain solution – akin to the Lightning Network – that will allow it to process massive volumes of ID data without congesting the blockchain network. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Digital+Identity https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=blockchain
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Early Friday morning the world experienced the year’s latest cyberattack. Starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious “WannaCrypt” software quickly spread globally, blocking customers from their data unless they paid a ransom using Bitcoin. The WannaCrypt exploits used in the attack were drawn from the exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, or NSA, in the United States. That theft was publicly reported earlier this year. Learn more / en savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=cybersecurity https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=5+minutes
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Affichez le contenu qui vous intéresse
Depuis le 1er juin 2016, le CGIE vient d’activer pour toute la communauté de l’éducation nationale du Luxembourg l’application Delve sur Office 365.
Delve affiche du contenu personnalisé depuis Office 365 en fonction des documents sur lesquels vous travaillez, des personnes avec lesquelles vous collaborez et des autorisations dont vous disposez.
Delve permet d'avoir une vue unifiée sur vos fichiers Word, Excel, PowerPoint et autres, qu'il... Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/luxembourg-europe/?tag=Education
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Yammer is your company's private social network that helps you and your teams stay on top of it all. Start conversations, collaborate on files, and organize around projects so you can go further—faster.
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Microsoft Research today launched Code Hunt, a browser-based game for anyone interested in learning how to code by playing. The premise is straightforward:
Learning to code can be made more effective and sustainable if it is perceived as fun by the learner. Code Hunt uses puzzles that players have to explore by means of clues presented as test cases. Players iteratively modify their code to match the functional behaviour of secret solutions.
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Our initial research of the exploit indicates that this vulnerability is capable of affecting Microsoft Office versions 2003, 2007, and 2010 (Office 2010 vulnerability is limited to Windows XP and Server 2003 operating systems) and that it will fail on machines viewing the documents in protected mode (ActiveX support in documents disabled). While it is not easy to determine if computers have ActiveX enabled for Office documents, it is possible to profile vulnerable combinations of Microsoft Windows and Office to help understand the attack surface. Our telemetry feeds indicate the following breakdown of Microsoft Office versions deployed in enterprise environments: - Office 2003 - 5% - Office 2007 - 30% - Office 2010 - 41% - Office 2013 - 14% Beyond practicing due diligence in opening any attachments arriving by email, it is recommended that all users of the affected Office versions install Microsoft Fix it 51004. Websense will continue to monitor any developments related to the use of this vulnerability in future attacks. ===> Beyond practicing due diligence in opening any attachments arriving by email, it is recommended that all users of the affected Office versions install Microsoft Fix it 51004. <=== Websense will continue to monitor any developments related to the use of this vulnerability in future attacks. -
Patch Tuesday has been and gone, which means that if you're responsible for the security of the computers in your office - or the ones you use at home - it's time to update your systems once again.
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Microsoft annonce avoir fermé un nouveau botnet en collaboration avec Symantec et affectant les requêtes des internautes sur les moteurs de recherche.
Sur l'un de ses blogs officiels, Microsoft explique que le botnet en question, Bamital, était constitué d'environ huit millions d'ordinateurs zombies. Ces derniers étaient infectés d'un malware modifiant les liens cibles au sein des moteurs de recherche. Ce click jacking était opéré sur Google, Bing et Yahoo! ainsi que sur leurs plateformes publicitaires.
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Microsoft has unveiled its latest research project today, Project Zanzibar. It’s a smart mat that’s designed to blend the digital and physical worlds by sensing touch, gestures, and objects. A team of researchers, with a love of toys, created the project at Microsoft’s research labs in the UK. The mat folds and combines sensing, near field communication (NFC), and multi-touch to imagine a future where you could place objects on this smart mat and play games.
Microsoft’s video (above) demonstrates a number of different games that track the position, movement, and orientation of objects — all thanks to NFC stickers. The smart mat, that reminds me of the Surface Music Cover, can even detect inputs like button presses, and works with existing devices via Bluetooth. While the software maker demonstrates basic games for learning, programming, and augmented reality, this looks like the perfect hardware to combine the company’s Minecraft game with real-world Lego blocks. Objects can be easily tagged with NFC stickers, so you could stack them and have the mat translate that physical object into Minecraft. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=makered
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Microsoft offers STEM resources to help educators engage students with project-based lessons that compliment current STEM curriculum. A small incubation team inside of Microsoft focuses on developing next generation hardware, software, and services for K-12 education. Our goal is to support teachers in building inquiry and project-based activities that embed computational and design thinking into existing middle school curriculum. We want to democratize STEM for 21st century learners and demonstrate how all schools can provide affordable opportunities to bring science in the classroom. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Coding https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=makerspace
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If you want to build your own gadgets using the Raspberry Pi but don't have the kit or even a Pi, there could soon be another way to get started.
Microsoft is building an online Raspberry Pi simulator that allows users to write code to control emulated hardware, and that currently lets users interact with an LED and collect data from a sensor.
The simulator shows a graphic of a Pi wired to a combined humidity, temperature, pressure sensor and a red LED via a breadboard, a plug board that allows circuits to be wired together rapidly. Users can type in a side panel to enter Node.js JavaScript code, which can be used to control the LED and collect dummy data from the simulated sensor. That code can be executed using a command line at the base of the panel. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?&tag=Raspberry+Pi
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Les malwares Windows sont souvent plus connus et fréquemment mis en avant dans les différents rapports d'experts en sécurité. Néanmoins, les menaces sont bien réelles et tout aussi dangereuses dans les environnement Linux, MacOS et Android.
Les experts en sécurité ont tendance à mettre l’accent sur les malwares de Windows, qui est traditionnellement plus visé par les activités malveillantes. Mais alors que certains rapports ne se concentrent que sur l’environnement Microsoft, les menaces sont bien présentes sur Linux, MacOS et les équipements Android, et moins bien appréhendées. Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren: http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?&tag=Linux
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Young people and children may know how to operate devices but are not necessarily prepared to think digitally. The idea that the new generations are all “digital natives” is a fallacy. Interestingly, the school is now considered as THE place that should undertake the mission to prepare them for the challenges of the digital-by-default society in which they will live. But schools are not ready yet. For example, when one of my daughters recently started secondary school she was immersed in a new pedagogic model that is based on the use of a handheld device instead of books. The model came from a partnership with the industry and counted with the support of the school principal. Although I welcomed the initiative, I soon noticed a mix of new and old ways of teaching that weakened its effectiveness. The intention was great but it was not accompanied by an adequate preparation of teachers to act as learning facilitators. This is one of the major challenges for schools, in my view. When we think of young people today we also deal with another contradiction. Many of them are unemployed; with some regions in Europe where as far as one out of two youths are unemployed. But at the same time, digital skills are increasingly demanded by the labour market (there will be about 825,000 ICT vacancies in EU by 2020). We tend to think that young people automatically have these skills. But they don’t. Therefore, digital literacy is becoming as important as traditional literacy and numeracy. Digital literacy is not only about the ability to use office or social media tools. It also implies understanding the logic behind it- what some call “computational thinking”- and this can be acquired, for example, by coding. Another problem, as pointed out by many experts, is the lack of students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and this will only make the skills gap deeper. STEM studies are apparently not fashionable. So we need to make them more appealing, for example, by adding topics such as Arts or Creativity to stimulate interest and innovation in these fields. We can also work on better aligning university career plans to the labour market demands and expectations.
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Skype Translator était annoncé en version bêta pour la fin de l'année 2014. Une arrivée qui semble se confirmer avec l'annonce sur le blog de Skype de l'ouverture des inscriptions afin de pouvoir tester l'efficacité de cette technologie. Cette phase de test n'est pour le moment accessible que sous Windows 8.1 (ordinateur ou tablette), mais Microsoft prévoit de l'étendre à l'ensemble des plateformes dans le futur.
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The Microsoft UK Blog for schools, featuring news for schools from Microsoft, case studies within education, and education ICT advice
In fact, a recent study from Fordham University shows that schools are struggling to meet even existing legal and regulatory requirements related to the protection of student data.
Additionally, a recent survey of parents conducted by Benenson Strategy Group on behalf ofCommon Sense Media found that 90 percent of respondents were “concerned about how private companies with non-educational interests are able to access and use students’ personal information” and 77 percent support making it “illegal for schools and education technology companies to sell students’ private information to advertisers.”
So, as we gather together this week, we must ask: How do we protect the most vulnerable among us – our children – and guarantee their privacy and security in the ever-changing world of education today?
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Research indicates Microsoft Office applications rank 3 of 20 top in demand skills for high-growth, high-pay careers.
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As expected Microsoft released seven important and two critical fixes for Windows, Internet Explorer and other Microsoft products. Adobe followed suite releasing fixes for ColdFusion, Flash and Sho...
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IoT-powered platform Particle has announced a collaboration with Microsoft to expand its suite of IoT development tools with the introduction of Particle Workbench, which aims to accelerate the time to market for IoT products.
The Particle Workbench will leverage Microsoft's code editor studio, Visual Studio Code, which according to Particle will offer IoT developers an "all-in-one and ready-to-use out-of-the-box experience to develop, program and debug professional-grade apps."
Particle CEO and co-founder, Zach Supalla said: "Our vision is to provide a fully integrated, seamless platform for developers to build the best IoT products possible, without the need to piece together individual costly features.
"We made the choice to work with Microsoft on the release of Particle Workbench in response to the urging of our customers who wanted access to a robust desktop development tool. Microsoft's leadership in building developer experiences and commitment to open source made them a natural choice," he added.
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