New things to try, Microsoft said, include: Optical Character Recognition (OCR): This service lets users extract printed or handwritten text from images, such as photos of street signs and products, ...

For example, an AI assistant that understands images, pricing data and purchasing history is likely to offer better-personalized product suggestions than one that only understands pricing data.

Human-surveillance technologies have advanced in the past few years with the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI ...

Microsoft today launched a new computer vision service it claims can generate image captions that are, in some cases, more accurate than human-written descriptions. The company calls the service ...

Microsoft’s results for the second quarter of the 2016 financial year mirror the decline in the PC market. Despite having a new client operating system in Windows 10, the company reported a 6% ...