New Atlas

Microsoft's tech for 10,000-year data storage now works with kitchenware glass

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...
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Microsoft introduces new IMPORTTEXT, IMPORTCSV functions in Excel

WASHINGOTN, 18th January, 2026 (WAM) -- Microsoft has added two new import functions — IMPORTTEXT and IMPORTCSV — to Excel, aimed at simplifying the process of importing data from text and CSV files ...
Digital Trends

Microsoft Excel’s new import functions make handling numbers easier

If you often work with data that starts life as a text file or CSV, Microsoft Excel now has new built-in tools that simplify how that information gets pulled into a spreadsheet. The update introduces ...
Wired

Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

If old sci-fi shows are anything to go by, we're all using our computers wrong. We're still typing with our fingers, like cave people, instead of talking out loud the way the future was supposed to be ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
Forbes

How Starbucks Is Using Data And AI To Deliver Joy And Connection To Its Customers

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Randy Bean is a noted Senior Advisor, Author, Speaker, Founder, & CEO. How does a venerable American brand known for creating the ...
Time

AT&T Customers Could Be Entitled to Portion of $177 Million Settlement. Here’s How You Can File a Claim

An AT&T logo is seen on Aug. 17, 2025. An AT&T logo is seen on Aug. 17, 2025.Jonathan Raa—Getty Images. Reporter AT&T customers in the United States could be entitled to up to $7,500 after the ...
The Conversation

AI tools collect and store data about you from all your devices – here’s how to be aware of what you’re revealing

Christopher Ramezan receives funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission. Like it or not, artificial intelligence has become part of daily life. Many devices – including electric razors and ...
The New York Times

23andMe Customers Did Not Expect Their DNA Data Would Be Sold, Lawsuit Claims

The genetic-testing company, which collected DNA data from users, is for sale in bankruptcy court. Now, 27 states and the District of Columbia oppose selling the data without express consent. By Rylee ...
NPR

How to delete your 23andMe data after the company filed for bankruptcy

The genetic testing company 23andMe, best known for allowing people to trace their ancestry with an at-home kit, has been struggling financially for months. So when the California biotech firm ...
TechCrunch

Mistral adds a new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file

On Thursday French large language model (LLM) developer Mistral launched a new API for developers who handle complex PDF documents. Mistral OCR is an optical character recognition (OCR) API that can ...