Microsoft Research makes a ton of free stuff available to download - here are some of my favorites to keep you busy during the lean period up to the New Year!

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Creating a dynamic, social web page just got a lot easier - FUSE Labs announced the public beta of Project Montage today. 

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Last night the FUSE Labs the team showed the latest version of Project Emporia at the NIPS conference in Vancouver. Emporia is a personalized news services using a range of MSR technology to mine 1,000,000 articles every day and provide you with a personalized news feed.

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Facebook recently added facial recognition technology to their service which could win an award for the biggest timesaver of the year feature given more than 100 million tags are added to photos each day on Facebook.The full details are explained in a...

Next at Microsoft - it's a new place for stories about Microsoft. Stories about people, places, products, trends in technology as well as stories from outside Microsoft about how our products and technology are being used. Think of it as a "director's cut" of Microsoft. 

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