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Artificial intelligence (AI) developers now have a new, curious tool to test their system, as Microsoft announces the release of its open source Project Malmo – previously only in private preview – which uses the world-building game Minecraft for AI…

Minecraft has gained a tool that lets artificial intelligence experiments be carried out in its virtual worlds.

Microsoft has announced a public release for Project Malmo, the company’s system for testing AI software in Minecraft—and for the first time, anyone can join in.

Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Washington have reached an early but important milestone in DNA storage by storing a record 200 megabytes of data on the molecular strands…

Microsoft says DNA could be a better way to store data for the long term than the magnetic tape companies rely on today.

The researcher’s ideas about future technology in 2017 and 2027 make for interesting reading and the world will be a better and more interesting place if half of what they envision comes to pass.

Microsoft has made Project Malmo, a platform that uses the world of Minecraft as a testing ground for advanced artificial intelligence research, available for novice to experienced programmers on GitHub via an open-source license.

Cynthia Dwork was elected to join the American Philosophical Society (opens in new tab), the first learned society of the United States, founded by Benjamin Franklin, which promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities…

Simon Peyton Jones received the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award (opens in new tab) for his leading role over the past 30 years in the design, implementation and evolution of Haskell (opens in new tab) and the Glasgow…