Sweden uses common salt to de-ice its roads in winter, contrary to online posts that say it uses a new beet extract salt, the country’s Transport Administration has said. Posts shared on social media, ...

Death to bad breath comes in cloves. Garlic — that pungent, bulb-shaped veggie that gives food a kick and vampires the ick — is now being crowned a possible cure for halitosis, per a new report.

Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands. The technology alleged to have been used to execute a multistate, ...

We’ll take you through a step-by-step guide on how to open an XML file in Excel, Word, Chrome, and Edge. Let’s get started. It may sound strange, but MS Excel can handle XML data. It allows you to ...

Certain Windows 365 Copilot users now have access to a new feature in Excel that lets you use Microsoft's Copilot AI to generate formulas, but you might want to be careful how you use it. Microsoft is ...

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Data wonks, rejoice! Pivot tables now automatically refresh themselves in a new beta version of Microsoft Excel. You might expect that pivot tables—which can be used to summarize rows and columns of ...

In spring 2021, Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego wanted to make a big bet on bitcoin. To fund the purchases, he made plans to borrow $400 million from banks. As collateral, he would hand ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...