This Week in Tech
Microsoft and technology-related updates for the week of May 9, 2022
This Week’s Stories
- Microsoft Adaptive Accessories are designed to be customizable inputs
- “Microsoft has announced a lineup of adaptive accessories which are meant to augment or replace the regular keyboards and mice that people with disabilities could struggle to use. The lineup consists of three different devices: the Adaptive Mouse, Adaptive Buttons, and the Adaptive Hub.” READ MORE
- Microsoft aims to boost growing cybersecurity business with new managed services
- “Microsoft is diving deeper into cybersecurity with three new managed services to help companies with their security needs. The new services include: Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, and Microsoft Security Services for Enterprise.” READ MORE
- Microsoft readies its latest ‘industrial metaverse’ pitch
- “Microsoft is positioning a number of its enterprise components, from IoT to Synapse Analytics, as its stack ready to take on the ‘industrial metaverse.’” READ MORE
- Clearview AI to stop selling its controversial facial recognition technology to U.S. firms
- “Clearview AI Inc. today agreed that it will not sell its facial recognition technology to most private firms in the U.S. in a settlement that was reached at a federal court in Illinois. The company came under the spotlight in 2020 when its database containing billions of faces was breached. Those faces were scraped from social media.” READ MORE
- Tesla recalls 130,000 vehicles to fix touchscreen issues caused by an overheating CPU
- “Tesla is recalling 130,000 cars due to an issue causing the CPU in vehicles’ infotainment systems to overheat during fast charging, potentially making the car’s touchscreen malfunction go completely blank.” READ MORE
- China is 3D printing a massive 590-foot-tall dam…all without humans
- “Chinese engineers will take the ideas of a research paper and turn it into the world’s largest 3D-printed project. Within two years, officials behind this project want to fully automate the unmanned construction of a 590-foot-tall dam on the Tibetan Plateau to build the Yangqu hydropower plant—completely with robots.” READ MORE
- Opal Blog: Customizations in the New Experience – Power Apps in Dynamics 365 Sales
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