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In the news | TechChange
Earth Reimagined: Harnessing AI and Geospatial Technologies to Tackle Global Challenges
Join us for a fireside chat featuring Juan Lavista Ferres, VP, Chief Data Scientist and Lab Director of the Microsoft AI For Good Lab, and Carrie Stokes, USAID’s Chief Geographer and Director of the GeoCenter on the transformative potential of…
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
The world needs cybersecurity experts – Microsoft expands skilling effort with a focus on women
Today, Microsoft is expanding our Cybersecurity Skills Initiative to Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, and Spain, and delivering grants to nonprofits to help skill people for the cybersecurity workforce. With this expansion, we are now working in 28 countries around the world, partnering with…
In the news | Planet
Queryable Earth: combining satellite imagery and next-gen AI
Back in 2018, Planet co-founder and CEO Will Marshall asked the audience during his TED talk: what if you could search the surface of the Earth the same way you search the internet? It wasn’t science fiction. Using artificial intelligence (AI)…
In the news | The Nature Conservancy
The value of words + pictures
For years the idea that nature and tourism are linked has been kept largely—and unhelpfully— confined to a series of studies on wildlife watching or scuba diving and filed under the heading: “nature-based tourism.”
In the news | Radiology Business
7 lessons learned during joint big business/healthcare AI projects
Big Tech players have been investing in partnerships with large healthcare providers on AI endeavors for several years now. According to both sides in one such collaboration, the resulting synergy offers “immense potential” to improve patient access, care and outcomes.
In the news | Julia Chatterly – CNN
Eyes in the sky – Planet Labs satellites track a changing globe
“It’s helping to lift the fog of war. No longer can anyone hide.” @planet Labs CEO @Will4Planet on how their satellite data and AI is transforming damage assessment in #Ukraine & #Turkey, tackling food security & deforestation.
In the news | ODI Open Data Institute
ODI and Microsoft supporting the Open Climate Data Challenge in Uruguay
Uruguay 2100 has been selected as the winner of the Open Climate Data Challenge in Uruguay, a challenge supported by Microsoft and the Open Data Institute.
In the news | AI Business
Novartis, Microsoft to use AI to gauge cardiovascular risk in urban areas
Novartis and Microsoft are working together to assess the cardiovascular risk of residents in urban cities, using AI to discover just how much socio-economic and environmental factors affect heart health.
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
Closing the Climate Data Divide in the Global South
World and business leaders are facing pressing climate issues as they gather in Egypt for COP27 – and are focused on ways to come together on action and implementation. At Microsoft, we see these days ahead as an opportunity to…