Microsoft wants gamers build their own worlds — playable game worlds, in fact. Microsoft's Project Spark, in open beta now for Windows 8 and the Xbox One, splices together a Minecraft-like sandbox ...

Apache Spark has become the de facto standard for processing data at scale, whether for querying large datasets, training machine learning models to predict future trends, or processing streaming data ...

When Microsoft debuted its next generation Xbox One console at E3 last month, the software line-up consisted of a new racing game (Forza 5), a new shooting game (Titanfall) and a new ...

Players can select upgrades to the Spark skill via a number of upgrades. The first modifier is a single option, Enhanced Spark, which states: Each time Spark hits, it has a 20% chance to hit up to 3 ...