Bing has announced large upgrades to their text-to-speech capabilities in voice search, visual search capabilities and improvements to their intelligent answers. According to the company, Bing’s intelligent answers are smarter by leveraging their own deep learning models.  Bing says that they are able to answer “harder questions than ever before”by being able to use advancements in GPU …

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Lately, Microsoft has made a turn towards cloud-based solutions since Satya Nadella became CEO of the company.  Bing Maps has decided to go down the same route and has been quite highly focused on the enterprise.  Microsoft has decided to focus more and more on developers and enterprises, rather than matching features with Google Maps. Microsoft has …

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An update of the Bing iOS search app has been released which includes a way to snap a picture of a math problem and get the answer within seconds.  A “Find in Page” button has also been added by Bing to help find words within a page and the customary bug fixes with all app updates. A …

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A new feature has been rolled out by Bing that is aimed at hikers and campers, which will make it easier to find trails and camping sites this summer. In the announcement, if a user does a search for “trails near me,” they will get presented with local results for nearby trails that cn be filtered by …

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Today, it was announced by Bing that it has partnered with TuneIn, which is an an online subscription service for audio broadcasts. If you do a search for “online radio stations” on Bing, you’ll be given a scrolling carousel of stations at the top o the search results, which is what Bing says are the “most searched” …

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In the spirit of the Olympic spirit, Bing has decided to bring the 2016 Rio Olympic Games into its search results, as well as launch its “Events to Watch” feature, which recommends must-see Olympic evens based on Bing Predicts technology. Now, and Olympic related search done on Bing will deliver a Rio Games box with tabs …

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Recently, Bing has released a brand new version of its iOS App, bringing a number of updates.   One of the new updates includes the recently released smart tags in Bing News, which helps users find connected stories.  With the new “Bing Interests” feature, it is now possible to track news stories, along with personalizing the content as well. …

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Microsoft has brought to the masses the Microsoft Translate app for both iOS and Android.  Because of this release, this turns will create some major competition with Google’s popular Google Translate software.  The major difference with Microsoft Translate is that Microsoft has enabled the features for both platform’s wearable products, Apple Watch and Android Wear. The …

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