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New year, new me — or so you say every year. But is it really a “new you” if you’re stuck in your old ways? Would you consider yourself evolved if you’re not learning something different? Eh, we don’t think so. Take this fresh chapter as an excuse to pick up a new skill (or…

Published 6 years ago in 6th January 2019

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New year, new me — or so you say every year.

But is it really a “new you” if you’re stuck in your old ways? Would you consider yourself evolved if you’re not learning something different? Eh, we don’t think so.

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The Social Media Marketing Master Class Bundle— 23.49 ($969 value)

You already scroll through your feed to no end, why not put your interest in social media to good use? With this course, you can forge a career in digital marketing with lessons on how to create profitable campaigns on the top social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Complete Photoshop Mastery Bundle— $23.49 ($1210 value)

Stop Facetune-ing and start Photoshopping. This series of courses will arm you with the technical know-how to leverage the power of the widely-used editing platform. Learn how to add effects on photos, fine-tune images with colors, create toned black and white imagery, and develop composite artwork. As a bonus, there’s even a crash course on Adobe Lightroom.

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As more and more industries become reliant on digital products, the demand for DevOps engineers continues to soar. With over 69 hours of premium instruction, this 9-pronged course will expose you to enterprise computing systems like AWS, Linux, and Docker, so you can get a better handle of these platforms and land a high-paying DevOps gig.

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Complete Data Science Certification Training Bundle— $39.69 ($699 value)

Money doesn’t make the world go ’round — data does. With this bundle, you’ll be equipped with the conceptual and technical skills to break into a career in data science. You’ll get an in-depth introduction to R programming, Hadoop, Python, and Tableau, as well as industry-specific concepts like data mining, exploration, and hypothesis testing.

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Microsoft denies shutting down operations in China

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How Microsoft’s AI chief measures consumer inroads for Copilot

Advertisement Business How Microsoft’s AI chief measures consumer inroads for Copilot Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman speaks at the company’s 50th anniversary celebration in Redmond, Washington, U.S., April 4, 2025. REUTERS/Jeffrey Dastin Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman speaks at the company’s 50th anniversary celebration in Redmond, Washington, U.S., April 4, 2025. REUTERS/Jeffrey Dastin Microsoft co-founder

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How Microsoft’s AI chief measures consumer inroads for Copilot

REDMOND, Washington : As Microsoft CEOs past and present gathered here to celebrate the company’s 50th birthday, one leader said he is targeting a particular metric’s improvement to guide his strategy on artificial intelligence.

Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, said his consumer and research division is tracking the usual measures of adoption for the company’s AI assistant called Copilot. These include daily and weekly active users, distribution, and usage intensity for Copilot’s consumer offering, he said.

But Suleyman’s interest lies elsewhere.

“I really, really focus the team on SSR, the rate of successful sessions,” he said in an interview.

In an older era when consumers gave less real-time feedback on software, the time they spent with a product – on social media, for instance – or the problems they could solve represented crude “proxies for quality,” he said.

“Now, we actually get to learn from the anonymized logs and extract the sentiment,” said Suleyman, who joined Microsoft about a year ago after leading the startup Inflection AI. Suleyman was one of the only Microsoft executives other than former CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer and current CEO Satya Nadella to speak on stage at Microsoft’s Friday event at its Redmond, Washington, headquarters.

Suleyman said Microsoft has tasked an AI model itself to assess such sentiment and help determine Copilot chats’ SSR.

“Over the last four months, it’s gone up dramatically, and that’s what we optimize for,” he said.

Suleyman declined to state the rate in absolute terms or disclose other Copilot metrics.

The company last fall announced a more amiable voice for its consumer Copilot and the ability to analyze web pages for users as they browse.

On Friday, Microsoft demonstrated further features for Copilot: personalized podcasts, a tool to help consumers research complex queries, and eventually a look for Copilot that can be custom to each user and conversation.

“I would definitely go for something that was cutesy,” said Suleyman, “like a little Furby-type thing.”

Source: Reuters

Microsoft Raises Alarm of Malware Targeting Coinbase, MetaMask Wallets

Tech Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email Microsoft Raises Alarm of Malware Targeting Coinbase, MetaMask Wallets A new report from Microsoft researchers warned of malware that could steal and decrypt users’ information from 20 of some of the most popular cryptocurrency wallets. By Margaux Nijkerk| Edited by Stephen

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