Key partnerships and top AI projects have helped Microsoft to breach the $2tn mark

Recently, tech giant Microsoft became the second publicly traded company in the US to achieve 2 trillion market capital after Apple. The company was able to achieve this feat just two years after reaching the 1tn mark. Some of the major projects taken up by the company were responsible for this spike. Back in 2019, Microsoft had invested $1 billion in OpenAI to build AI. The main motto of the partnership was to develop new software, and hardware platform within Microsoft’s Azure targeted towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

 The tech giant also became the company’s exclusive cloud provider. OpenAI had stated in its blog that it would be partnering and working with Microsoft to extend the capabilities of Azure in large-scale AI systems. Under this partnership, Microsoft was responsible for building one of the top five supercomputers in the world. The facility has been made available for researchers working with Azure. Last September, Microsoft partnered again with OpenAI to gain an exclusive license for GPT-3. The tech giant was keen on gaining exclusivity because the new solution will help the company expand its AI platform to create new services and products. Microsoft's key partnership only helped it achieve the incredible feat to become a 2tn company.

 

 

PlayStation Plus Subscribers will now Get 24 Free Games

PlayStation Plus, an online subscription started by Sony is allowing the players to access the online gaming world and is also offering them a huge variety of games to play at no additional cost. The main concept of the PlayStation Plus subscription is to provide the players with different variants of games consistently. Thus each month, around three new games will be released for the PS Plus subscribers.

The makers have recently released a total of 24 new games for all the players with a PlayStation Plus subscription. These games will improve Sony’s game playlist and collection mostly includes the new PS5 games and cannot be accessed by PS4 users. Seeing this Sony wanted its players to upgrade to their next-generation console, PS5. Therefore it has made PS Plus free games for players for July 2021.

Currently, Sony is working tofulfill the demand for their next-generation consoles. Because of the shortage of theconsoles due to pandemic, Xbox Series X and S sales had gone up initially but soon those consoles also went out of stock. It is reported that Sony will release another set of PS5 pre-registration on July 12. Players can keep an eye on these updates on the PS5 restock by following Sony’s social media handles.

 

Advancement in AI Paves Way to All-New Pollination Robots

In recent times, the advancement in innovation and technology is transforming the way we live, work, and play. Especially the encroachment in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector is bringing in bounteous changes in the farming and agriculture sector. Farmers have relied on insects, wind, and even human workers to help pollinate their crops for a long time. AI is helping few startups develop another way to pollinate plants: robots.

Several startups are testing robots to pollinate everything from raspberries to cashews worldwide. And many robotic countries across the globe are confident in robots’ abilities and believe that they will soon deploy a fleet to pollinate several plants grown in the greenhouses. The pollination robots could give future farmers a significant advantage by increasing crop productivity compared with insects, such as bees, and the human workers who are sometimes needed to help with certain crops.

Besides, scientists are also worried that insect populations are gradually declining due to habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change, and other factors, making pollination robots even more important. The robotic revolution is being sped up deep learning, which trains artificial neural networks that mimic the human brain. This makes it easier for startups to develop robots that can quickly and accurately identify flowers for pollination.

 

 

Australia’s Remedy Drinks Launches New Zero-Sugar Kombucha to the Market

Number one selling brand in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK and the fourth largest kombucha company in the world producing over 90 million cans per year, Remedy Drinks in a recent announcement, have stated that it is planning to replicate its success in the US market by bringing zero-sugar, shelf-stable kombucha to the US market. The company aims to launch a healthier and fizzy alternative to carbonated drinks that are full of flavor.

The brand is ready for the US market, as kombucha has taken a giant leap from conventional market to mainstream natural channel. The kombucha and fermented beverages market is gaining huge popularity and is growing bigger every year. Remedy Drinks has observed this change and is trying to bring unique flavors and shelf-stable products to the US food and beverages sector.

The company makes it easier for consumers to enjoy something unique, healthy, full-flavored, and convenient to carry a drink. Remedy drinks are also launching direct-to-consumer on Amazon, and the product will be shipped nationwide. In addition, the zero-sugar canned kombucha comes in four different flavors- Peach Kombucha, ginger lemon kombucha, mixed berry kombucha, and raspberry lemonade kombucha.

 

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service will now be available across 22 countries

It was always the dream of people to play games without the hassle of owning an expensive PC or console. This is no more a dream, thanks to the emergence of cloud gaming. Tech giant Microsoft recently made an announcement that it will be bringing its cloud gaming service to Apple mobile devices and Windows 10 PC. The service will be available in more than 20 countries, and users from that region can enjoy any game from their desired location. The main idea behind the service offered by Microsoft is somewhat similar to the video streaming services like Hulu or Netflix except for the fact that users are now playing games instead of watching shows or movies.

 Another interesting part of the Xbox Cloud Gaming service is that you will be playing on established networks that will already have your save files allowing you to continue playing on any device. Xbox Cloud Gaming was established to empower the user to have access to any files irrespective of devices. Data centers of Microsoft were also upgraded recently to allow users to stream games at 1080p resolution. The services offered by Microsoft is quite remarkable, and it is one the most important milestone for the cloud gaming community.