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SEATTLE (AP) — Paul G. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates before becoming a billionaire philanthropist who invested in conservation, space travel, arts and culture and professional sports, died Monday. He was 65. He died in Seattle from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his company Vulcan Inc. announced. Gates said he was […]

For years there have been programs designed to get more girls involved in tech careers, but Microsoft noticed a need for minority males. Their Mancode initiative is a one day technology conference that will educate middle and high school minority males about technology. According to Shy Averett, Microsoft’s community programs and event manager, only 2.2% […]

African-Americans made up 7 percent of U.S. high-tech workforce, and just 3 percent of the total Silicon Valley workforce, according to Bloomberg. And the issue isn’t that they just aren’t hiring us, it’s that very few of us are even applying for the jobs. Actor Omar Gooding sits down with Microsoft’s Rashid Farrell, Sr. HR […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OMG! Did you hear about the artificial intelligence program that Microsoft designed to chat like a teenage girl? It was totally yanked offline in less than a day, after it began spouting racist, sexist and otherwise offensive remarks. Microsoft said it was all the fault of some really mean people, who […]

Microsoft is developing a technology that may dramatically change how we calculate the duration of an inmate’s stay in jail-  for better, or for worse, we’re not quite sure. Click on the audio player to hear more information on this story in this edition of The Jazzy Report on The D.L. Hughley Show. RELATED:  Advocates Rally For Jailed Pregnant Mother […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella apologized Thursday night and said he was wrong for saying that women don’t need to ask for a raise and should just trust the system to pay them well. Nadella was blasted on Twitter and in blog posts for his comments, which were made earlier Thursday at […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft announced a larger version of its Surface tablet to make the device more compelling as a laptop replacement. The Surface Pro 3 will have a screen measuring 12 inches diagonally, up from 10.6 inches in previous models. Microsoft said it’s also thinner and faster than before. The company said it […]

African American tech executive John Thompson has been appointed the new chairman of Microsoft Corporation, replacing chairman and co-founder Bill Gates. Thompson is the former CEO of Symantec Corporation and hopes to bring Microsoft into better competition with Apple and Google. He was the first and only African American leader of a major technology company […]

Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo, a nine-year-old Nigerian recently became one of the world’s youngest certified Microsoft Office Specialists for Office Word 2010, according to the Nigerian Tribune.…