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Stop Scrolling and Start Scoring: How Copilot's April 2026 Excel Update Turns Your Property Hunt Into a Data-Driven Win

As of April 2026, Microsoft Excel's Copilot has evolved beyond simple formula generation into a full 'Agent Mode' capable of multi-sheet reasoning and live data interpretation. This shift means a ...

How to Invest in Index Funds

The theory behind index investing is rooted in the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) developed by Nobel laureate Eugene Fama ...
Redmond Magazine

The New Copilot Function Vastly Improves Microsoft Excel, Part 1

Excel’s newest Copilot integration finally delivers the data intelligence Microsoft promised years ago, transforming how users clean, organize and understand information within their spreadsheets. Way ...
Wired

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...
CNET

Microsoft Researchers Figure Out How to Store Data Inside Glass Using Lasers

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...
TechRepublic

10 Clever Microsoft Excel Tricks to Use in 2026

These tricks show how AI tools, new import formulas, and classic features improve productivity. Excel has outlasted many tech trends, and in the age of AI, it remains very much in the mix. While new ...
PBS

How online retailers are using AI to adjust prices by mining your personal data

If you’re going online to buy some last-minute gifts this holiday season, there’s a chance the price you pay will be influenced by what’s known as “surveillance pricing.” Some retailers are using ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Can Use Your Personal Data to Hurt Your Neighbor

Dr. Kasy is the author of the book “The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits).” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los ...
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 ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using 3 Excel View tools to manage large spreadsheets

Q. I work with large spreadsheets. These spreadsheets have hundreds or even thousands of rows and often 10 or more columns. It’s so much to process that I become confused and make mistakes. Does Excel ...
Wired

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is starting to train its models on new Claude chats. If you’re using the bot and don’t want your chats used as training data, here’s how to opt out. Anthropic is prepared to repurpose ...