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Re:How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are wor... by isp on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:36AM (#12547606)
Research in progress at Microsoft Research at Cambridge, UK.

This has been picked up by the media (how I heard about it) - but with the usual hyperbole, e.g.,

- Microsoft will 'solve' cancer within 10 years by 'reprogramming' diseased cells: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/09/20/microsoft-will...

- Microsoft is reprogramming cancer: http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/437929,microsoft-is-repro...

Re:How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are wor... by charlesism on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:11AM (#12547806)
- Microsoft, in a Flash of Genius, Will Soon Devise "Grand Unified Theory"

- Microsoft Shortly to Invent Electric Car, and Probably Outsell Tesla by a Factor of 3

- Microsoft Only Two Years Away from Composing a Song So Beautiful it Revolutionizes Music Industry

Re:How Microsoft computer scientists and researchers are wor... by Arnt on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:19AM (#12547853)
And a few days ago on HN:

- Oracle launches cloud service, predicts Amazon's demise