MICROSOFT GARAGE
Blog archive for September 2020

Hackathons
Microsoft Hackathon 2020 Grand Prize Winner: Customizable digital assistant
What if you could train a digital assistant on what was important to you and teach it to do tasks, like look up today’s pollen count, book the next open local campsite, or alert you when an item goes on sale? The grand prize winning team of Microsoft Hackathon 2020 did just that with their customizable digital assistant project, built....

Garage Projects
Get paid for your photos with Trove, a Microsoft Garage project
We’re excited to share a big announcement for Trove, a Microsoft Garage project! Now, people can get paid for contributing accepted photos to AI projects in the Trove marketplace with new PayPal integration. Anyone can try Trove via the new web app and a now open app for Android, expanding participation in the experiment beyond the select set of users....