February 19, 2016

Microsoft has announced that anyone can now use its Azure Container Service. The cloud computing service was previously in a limited beta release. “The Azure Container Service makes it easy to create and manage clusters of Azure Virtual Machines pre-configured with key open source components,” said Corey Sanders, director of

Google says its Cloud Vision API is now in public beta, meaning that any developer can add the tool’s image recognition capabilities to applications. The Cloud Vision API can extract text from images, classify thousands of different objects, flag inappropriate content and do sentiment analysis. Pricing for the Cloud Vision