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Chancellor George Osborne’s Digital Transformation Plan puts digital technologies at the heart of the UK’s economic future

Despite a recent victory, environmental groups have had little luck slowing the boom in new natural-gas power plants. Environmental groups won a major victory in California in late June when the group proposing a 600-megawatt natural-gas-fired power plant near Avenal…

Publishers like the New York Times should be having an existential crisis over Facebook’s instant articles. Instead they’re embracing them. Here are some key numbers for content licensors in digital media: Netflix will pay approximately $3 billion in licensing and…

To automate a manual process, Microsoft IT built a scalable web service that relies on multiple Microsoft Azure components. The new service interfaces with legacy systems and current business processes and is designed to support additional business units and processes…

Find out how Microsoft IT used data-driven engineering to improve content discoverability and increase customer satisfaction on support.microsoft.com. Data-driven engineering let the team make truly informed decisions and implement proactive changes more often.

The integration between Microsoft and the Nokia Devices and Services division was a massive undertaking involving hundreds of employees from both companies, months of hard work, and collaboration at unprecedented levels. Microsoft IT was at the forefront of the process,…

America’s communications ­infrastructure is finally getting some crucial upgrades because one company is forcing ­competition when regulators won’t. It’s too often said that some event “changed everything” in technology. But when it comes to the history of broadband in the…

Massive solar panel factories. Fertility treatments. Friendly robots. Meet the companies reshaping the technology business. Sometimes we hear that technology companies have lost their ambition. Too many great minds are pouring their energy into the next app for the affluent,…

Wearable devices are getting more advanced, but can today’s technology really measure our health? Until recently, I didn’t know a thing about how my roughly 25-minute bike commute across San Francisco—or any other part of my day, really—affects my body,…