More than 900,000 Mercedes vehicles in the United States will have access to the new ChatGPT-enabled beta feature, which will be trialed for about three months. Luxury car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz is integrating artificial intelligence into more than 900,000 vehicles as part of a new trial of a ChatGPT-powered voice assistant system. The company announced on…
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Microsoft is closing its Azure Blockchain Service, giving existing customers just four months to transition to new service providers. Microsoft is turning off its corporate Azure Blockchain Service on September 10 and will not accept any new deployments effective immediately, with no official explanation provided. Large corporate customers who use Azure Blockchain include J.P. Morgan,…
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Quarantined gamers are putting a strain on Microsoft’s cloud-based Blockchain platform. Microsoft has acknowledged that the quarantined gamers are putting a strain on its Azure cloud platform which is a backbone of the company’s Blockchain As a Service (BaaS) offering. In the SEC filing, Microsoft addresses the impact of “the global health pandemic” on its…
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NFTs are finding applications beyond gaming. Microsoft has been quick to adopt them, but does this mean these tokens are actually becoming popular? Ever since the game CryptoKitties was released in November 2017, the concept of nonfungible token has been ingrained in the minds of developers and investors in the crypto community. However, 2019 has…
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Microsoft’s blockchain-enabled cloud service Microsoft Azure announced new tokenization and blockchain data management services. Microsoft’s blockchain-enabled cloud service Microsoft Azure announced new tokenization and blockchain data management services. In a post published on the official Microsoft Azure blog on Dec. 6, the IT service giant announced the Azure Blockchain Tokens and blockchain data manager. New…
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Microsoft’s cloud platform Microsoft Azure announced the “Azure Heroes” blockchain non-fungible tokens aimed at rewarding its developer community. Microsoft’s blockchain-enabled cloud platform Microsoft Azure announced the “Azure Heroes” blockchain non-fungible tokens (NFT) aimed at rewarding its developer community. The tokens represent cartoonish badgers (a play on the word “badge”) and aim to compensate positive behavior…
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Microsoft is bolstering its blockchain offerings on the Azure platform through a series of partnerships, Insolar the latest to join. Thanks to the high computational flexibility that it offers, the influence of cloud computing on the blockchain space continues to grow. It’s less of a surprise, then, that cloud computing giants — such as Amazon,…
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