Speech Recognition Large Company Becomes Second Biggest Purchase After LinkedIn

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Microsoft goes shopping big. The Redmond company has made Nuance Communications official purchase for $ 19.7 billion. It is the second largest purchase of Microsoft in its history, only surpassed by the 26,000 million of LinkedIn and above the 7.500 million of Bethesda or Github.

Nuance is a large company specializing in the development of artificial intelligence applied to speech recognition. Among its main programs is the Dragon software, which uses AI to help transcribe voices and is capable of adapting and learning from the user.

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For the first time, they are able to extend the life of a satellite in its geosynchronous orbit by attaching another satellite to act as a propellant.

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In recent days a Northrop Grumman satellite managed to dock in Earth orbit on an Intelsat television satellite. While it sounds like a science fiction movie, two satellites docking is totally groundbreaking in the aerospace industry and has one important goal: reducing space debris.

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