Microsoft Azure Machine Learning now available to all data scientists, developers

With Azure Machine Learning Service, developers can eliminate most of the heavy lifting involved in building and training ML models.

Some of the main features of the service include being able to automate ML model selection and tuning. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Microsoft is opening up its Azure Machine Learning Service for data scientists and developers so that they can use the Cloud-based offering to quickly create and train Machine Learning (ML) models, and then deploy them in production.

A bizarre video has emerged of a man dropping the new Apple Watch to test its durability. In the footage, recorded on April 24, popular US-based Ukrainian tech vlogger 'TechRax' drops the new flagship device and tests it for destruction. The 42mm sport model ends up with a smashed screen, separated from body, and no longer working. The youtuber later wrote online that this is a warning of 'what happens when you're tightening a 42mm Apple Watch Sport and it drops onto pavement!'

A bizarre video has emerged of a man dropping the new Apple Watch to test its durability. In the footage, recorded on April 24, popular US-based Ukrainian tech vlogger 'TechRax' drops the new flagship device and tests it for destruction. The 42mm sport model ends up with a smashed screen, separated from body, and no longer working. The youtuber later wrote online that this is a warning of 'what happens when you're tightening a 42mm Apple Watch Sport and it drops onto pavement!'

The biggest benefit therefore is a reduction in the time it takes to get those models up and running production, the company said.

There's also a new update to the Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB database service, which provides distribution across Azure regions for organisations that need Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based applications to run reliably on a global scale.

The new Azure Cosmos DB Shared Throughput Offer was made generally available on Tuesday.

Microsoft also announced updation of some of its Azure Cognitive Services to make it easier for developers to build more AI functions into their applications.

Azure Cognitive Services is a collection of application programming interfaces that allow apps to "see, hear, speak, understand and interpret" people's needs through natural methods of communication, the company said.