Microsoft briefly released an AI chat bot on Twitter that was intended to be a test of sorts for their machine learning technologies. This bot was called Tay and was meant to have the personality and likeness of a teenage girl and much like a real teenage girl, she...
Playing Hockey in MS Stadium
Before Apple acquired Testflight last year, we were heavy users of the service for both iOS and Android deployments. This fit well with our strategy at the time of providing affordable prototyping for entrepreneurs that could be tested on both major mobile platforms....
2014 Predictions
I hope that you have all had an awesome New Year's Eve! I've decided that I'll start off 2014 by making a fool of myself by trying to make some predictions for the tech industry for the new year. This is not a what you will see list, but nor is it a what you won't see...
Programming Pitfalls: Windows 8 & VS 13
It will come as no surprise to anyone who has been following this site for a while that I've been doing a bit of Windows 8 development. Like many developers moving over from another platform, I have some concerns about XAML and the development philosophy that it seems...
Xbox One Review
Although, I have never waited until midnight for a console lunch before, I waited at the Freehold, NJ Microsoft Store for the launch of the Xbox One. Like most of the people in the line, I had previously pre-ordered my system and was promised a "Day One Edition" that...
Review: Surface Pro 2
Being in the market for a Windows based laptop and having some potential WinRT projects in the pipeline, purchasing a Surface Pro 2 seemed like a great way to kill two birds with one stone and I happy to report that it was. Like just about any device on the market...
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