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Microsoft’s mixed reality ‘Minority Report’ glasses will revolutionise lab work – and Polish firm is behind the software

The software application uses both mixed reality and voice activation which lets busy lab technicians who have their hands occupied operate the software without having to stop what they are doing. Solution4Labs/YouTube

Holo4Labs’ mixed reality app means that users will be able to present digital data in the real world in the form of hologram-style images projected onto the lens of the glasses, not dissimilar to a VR game.

Mind the gap: business leaders unite to narrow the gender pay gap

Efforts are afoot to reduce the pay gap and get more women into senior positions in the business world.

Microsoft teams up with convenience store chain Żabka to launch ‘stores of the future’

Married to a mobile application, the stores of the future will nudge consumers towards purchases, send notifications about any Żabka stores in the vicinity and suggest that they may be in need of shopping.

Bank Pekao and Microsoft become strategic partners

Polish Bank Pekao and software giant Microsoft sealed a strategic partnership agreement at the 28th Economic Forum in Krynica (southern Poland) on Tuesday.

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Warsaw company creates ground-breaking early cancer detectors

Saventic uses an algorithm when analysing typical blood tests to spot anomalies that indicate if a patient is in the early stages of the disease.

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Polish-Lithuanian defence council to convene in early 2020
Royals, world leaders to attend Auschwitz liberation anniversary
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Polish president says sanctions imposed on Russia should continue
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Vanishing lives: Descendants of 17th century bearded radicals who fled to Poland from Russia to avoid religious persecution are now facing a new crisis as their numbers slowly dwindle out

It is easy to miss their presence - the three-barred crosses, the wooden banyas and the modest churches – unless you know what to look for. TFN travelled to the regions of Mazury and Suwalszczyzna in north-east Poland to track down the Old Believers, a minority which has almost disappeared, yet which still lingers among the hills, fields and virgin forests in the land of a thousand lakes.

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21/04 March of the Living to be held on April 21

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