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Microsoft’s CSE Sync Week: a high-octane hackathon showcasing the world’s brightest developers

The fourth edition of Microsoft’s CSE Sync Week took place this April in Seattle, bringing together 664 developers from 46 different countries for a high-octane, week-long hackathon. Over 50 cutting-edge tech projects were hand-selected by Microsoft, to spend a week under one roof working in teams to find cutting-edge solutions to various client-oriented hacking challenges.

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Self-driving through the extreme: Microsoft successfully simulates inclimate weather

Rain or shine, self-driving cars will need to be able to, well, drive. This is the problem Microsoft has been tackling of late in attempting to simulate how automated vehicles will react during extreme weather events. Cyclones, hurricanes and thunderstorms may be rare but pack a punch upon arrival – and they are certainly important

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Golfers rejoice: Microsoft fine-tunes virtual caddie

Golfers are one step closer to having a virtual caddie assist their swing on the fareway or putt on the green after Microsoft announced their latest findings with golf performance tracking startup Arccos. The joint project between the startup and Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering division has been hard at work since April to “create a semantic

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Microsoft HoloLens: allowing students study medicine through augmented reality

Technology has long since been a part of the field of education, and now even more so in countries like Colombia. Thanks to an alliance between Microsoft and Medellín‘s Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, the HoloLens has become available for their students to use, implementing mixed reality into education. Microsoft’s HoloLens is the first self-contained holographic computer,

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Microsoft South America

Chile’s Imagine Lab accelerator opens for the 8th generation

In recent years, Chile has been recognized as a country rapidly ascending the global startup scene, along with a small number of other South American countries such as Peru. One reason for this surge in popularity is the country’s enviable selection of accelerators, one of which is the rising accelerator, Imagine Lab, which is helping

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Microsoft student competition Imagine Cup transforms students’ entrepreneurial thoughts into reality

Microsoft Argentina announces Imagine Cup 2018, the global student competition for innovation and tech project development, that provides a platform to help young students from around the world convert their ideas into a startup.

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