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[embedded content]Microsoft Garage today aounced a new project called “Ink to Code” which will help developers to easily move from prototyping to real development. With Ink to Code, developers can draw wire frame sketches and export them into source code on Visual Studio. It currently supports prototyping for UWP and Android user interfaces. Ink to Code uses artificial intelligence and automation to develop code from wire frame sketches. For now, Ink to Code will only support basic app visual elements including labels, text fields, text paragraphs, images, and buttons.Ink to Code not only offers time-saving benefits but also fosters the collaborative and prototyping process key for designers...

While Spotify is best known for streaming all you can hear music, the firm has had higher aspirations, offering video and podcast content in the app. Now, Spotify wants to improve the usability if its platform as a storytelling platform. With Spotify Spotlight, it adds visual content to the listening experience, offering “contextual visual elements” that match with the audio on screen. It sounds very much like Spotify branded slideshow, and it’ll be interesting to see how it is in actual use. “We are excited to launch Spotlight, a new format that merges great storytelling, news, information and opinion with visual elements all delivered in playlist form across a number of content categories...

Microsoft today aounced a partnership with Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies to decode human immune system using AI and machine leaing with recent breakthroughs in biotechnology. Their goal of the project is to create a universal blood test that reads a person’s immune system to detect a wide variety of diseases including infections, cancers and autoimmune disorders in their earliest stage so that they can be effectively diagnosed and treated. In addition to this partnership, Microsoft has also made asubstantial financial investment in the company. Imagine a world with an “X-ray of the immune system.” This would open new doors to predictive medicine, as a person’s immunological histor...

Microsoft today released the Windows Template Studio 1.6 with a number of improvements including new support for Web to App links, which prompts users to open your website in its associated app, rather than the actual website itself.Windows Template Studio is an evolution of Windows App Studio which was an online app creation tool that allowed anyone to quickly build Windows Universal Apps. Windows Template Studio in Visual Studio will make it easier for developers to create new projects that target the Universal Windows Platform.New inWindows Template Studio version 1.6 is:New Pages:Image GalleryNew Features:Drag and drop sourceWeb to App LinkTemplate improvements:Minor tweaks for FluentDis...

Microsoft is working with Novartis to create an application that can be used by the visually impaired or blind to describescenes captures by the camera of a smartphone audibly and thereby improve the independence of users.TheViaopta Hello app is available in preview for iOS, Android and Windows and features:Uses Cognitive services and Microsoft latest image analysis technology to identify people, items and scene.The mobile app uses the Smartphones camera to take pictures of objects or people and then uses the back-end cognitive services to provide a description.The desktop app can provide a description of the content of pictures from any available document library, and if the picture contain...

Team Bondi’s neo-noir detective game is back and better than ever thanks to current-gen hardware. Its aouncement, though rumored beforehand, came as a bit of a surprise seeing as many didn’t expect Rockstar to remaster a title. L.A. Noire may not b...

In August, Microsoft released a new Visual Studio Code logo. The company changed the shape of the Visual Studio Code logo, but there was another big change: the colour of the logo was changed from blue to orange. While that may not sound like a big d...

Earlier this week, Microsoft released system updates for the new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices. These updates included the much-awaited Windows Mixed Reality support. With Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, users can update these drivers to st...

Update:Tu 10 Studios will bring back permanent double credits to Forza Motorsport 7 soon. In a post on their website they said:“Secondly, and even more significantly, we will be changing VIP rewards in Forza Motorsport 7. This new system will work like it did in Forza Motorsport 6, offering a 2X base credit bonus after every race. We’ve already started work on this feature and we will release i...

Up till now Amazon’s Echo voice assistants were the perfect servant – they did not speak until they were spoken to first.This is about to change, as Amazon is letting some developers test out the ability to send sound and light-based notifications to your Amazon Echo.Amazon has just releasedAmazon Alexa Notifications to a select group of developers. Aounced as part of theAlexa Voice Service (A...

Microsoft’s big push with Windows 10 over the last 12 months has been making productivity less boring, reframing it from making spreadsheets to creating, be it art or just the next big idea. To that end, we have seen Microsoft name their last 2 major OS updates Creators Updates, and releasing multiple devices aimed at artists, including the Surface Studio, Surface Dial and improved Surface Pen. T...

During the Microsoft Data Insight Summit 2017 event, Microsoft first demoed Timeline Storyteller, a Power BI visual that can be used for visualizing data representing a sequences of events. Timeline Storyteller can be used to present different aspects of your data using a palette of timeline representations, scales, and layouts, as well as controls for filtering, highlighting, and aotation. You...

Microsoft is soon going to be rolling out a new logo for its cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code. The new logo, which you can see above, ditches the old blue look for a new orange accent. The logo will appear first in Insider builds of Visual Studio Code sometime soon, and it’ll be released to everyone else sometime in early September. Here’s how the new logo will look for Visual Studio Code users ruing the Insider builds: It isn’t clear why exactly Microsoft is going for the new color and look, but Chris Dias, a member of the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft stated: The “I...

The Gamescom 2017 leaks have already started. Remember that open world game THQ Nordic was teasing a few days ago? Well, it’s called Biomutant. The title is stuing and we can’t wait to lea more about it in the coming days. Apart from having a vast and varied open world, the title is a role-playing game. While it’s unclear if the combat will be like Dark Souls, it definitely look unique. Now let’s move onto the bigger news. It appears that we have another which will be aounced by Microsoft. Several retailers have started posting a game called Codename Hollywood for Xbox One. We have abs...

Microsoft yesterday aounced the preview release of Visio custom visual for Power BI which will allow to visualize data using Microsoft Visio diagrams from within Power BI dashboards and reports. Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visio allows users to create illustrative diagrams, such as intercoected workflows and real-world layouts. With this Visio custom visual for Power BI, users can illustrate and compare data both as diagrams and as traditional Power BI visuals to better understand the overall picture. Visio diagrams stored on SharePoint or OneDrive for Business can be used for this visual. ...

You can now get Forza Horizon 3 Ultimate Edition digital code for Xbox One/Windows 10 for just $49. This Ultimate Edition gives you access to the Forza Horizon 3 Car Pass, VIP Membership, the Forza Hub App, and the Motorsport All-Stars Car Pack. Since this game supports Xbox Play Anywhere, you can ...

Hello Games’s notorious and controversial exploration game, No Man’s Sky, has released a massive update on the aiversary of their release date.Atlas Rises, version 1.3 of the popular PC game, brings a brand new and overhauled central storyline, portals, a new procedural mission system, trade imp...

[embedded content] Microsoft yesterday aounced the August Update for Power BI Desktop with new features for table and matrix visuals, and more. This update also includesa formatting option to show values on rows of your matrix and new analytics features such assymmetry shading and ratio lines fo...

Microsoft today aounced that they are bringing back full Visual Basic development editor to Office for Mac. A limited Visual Basic development environment already shipped with the Office 2016 for Mac. Based on the feedback from customers, Microsoft is now going to include full environment on the ...

Groove Music just got nicer looking for WIndows Insiders on the Fast Ring (with Skip Ahead to get the new app builds). Microsoft has added a few of Fluent design’s reveal highlightsto other parts of the user interface which serves to make the app look more lively. The firm has also updated the fo...