Last week Microsoft introduced the new Holoportation technology to the world, scaling newer heights in AI, mixed reality and neural text to speech technologies. Never ceasing to amaze its audiences, whether it is a stylus or an automated travel diary system, the tech giant brought surreal technology called Holoporationto the recent Microsoft Inspire 2019 event. For quite a while now, the company's R&D has been working on holoportation, which is a 3D capture technology that reconstructs, compresses and transmits 3D Models of people. Advancing further, Microsoft's researchers have also been taking a new approach to holoportation through the cellular by changing the background, lighting, and bandwidth to accomplish and extend features to a greater extent. Azure Corporate's Vice President, Julia White demonstrated holoportation, and how it works with a Hololens 2 headset while explaining the technologies used behind the invention.

Tata Consultancy Services' New Unit will Help Enterprises Leverage the Power of AI, Machine Learning and Cloud to Pursue their Growth and Transformation Agenda using Microsoft technologies REDMOND MUMBAI, November 18, 2019: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, announced the setting up of a new Microsoft Business Unit (MBU). Offering a full complement of services and solutions around Microsoft technologies, and catering to all stakeholders in the enterprise, the new unit will work with customers worldwide to accelerate their Business 4.0 transformation journeys. The new unit will leverage TCS' deep domain knowledge across industries and global talent pool of nearly 50,000 engineers trained on Microsoft technologies, to help customers leverage the power of AI, automation and cloud to enhance customer experience, re-imagine employee empowerment, optimize operations and spur innovation. Moreover, TCS' unique Location Independent Agile model will help customers accelerate their transformation journeys and achieve superior outcomes with unmatched speed to value. For customers looking to scale up their innovation efforts, the new unit will provide a ready means of plugging into TCS' extensive co-innovation ecosystem and pushing the boundaries of possibilities using the full stack of Microsoft technologies to establish competitive differentiation.

This article was originally published in the Autumn 2019 issue of The Record. Subscribe for FREE here to get the next issues delivered directly to your inbox. How are insurance firms using the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) to understand customers' needs and create personalised experiences? Amy Stokes-Waters, new business sales executive, Identity Experts: People love to be independent and are increasingly turning to mobile apps for self-service across a range of products, insurance being no exception. Insurance firms are having to invest heavily in cloud technologies to keep up with consumer want for on-demand information and simplified communications in our mobile-first society.