Microsoft Excel is a powerhouse data management tool used in business, research, and education. Today, the application offers over 450 built-in functions. Whether you’ve just started your first spreadsheet or have been honing your skills for years, there always seems to be another way to work more efficiently. To accelerate your learning journey, we’ve compiled a few functions that go beyond the basic SUM and DIVIDE functions. Once you’ve mastered them, you’ll be well on your way to increasing both the speed and productivity of your projects.

The Start menu has never been particularly well-liked and remains one of the most critiqued parts of the Windows operating system. It has always lacked customization tools, and its interface has often felt cluttered.

After purchasing my iPad Air, an Apple Pencil to go with it, and a Logitech keyboard for working on the go, the next thing on my to-do list was making my $600 iPad (plus the cost of the accessories) worth it. Since I primarily use it for my studies and prefer handwritten notes, I spent hours testing every note-taking app I could find in the App Store.

We all know that data loss happens and that we should be backing up our data periodically, even if we don't always put that knowledge into consistent practice. Maybe you have copies of your data on various external hard drives, which is better than no backups but still isn't a proper backup strategy. You might have a self-hosted backup solution that automatically backs up your devices, which is most of the way towards the end goal.

If you're looking to build your own NAS, you're going to want to buy drives that are built for the task. NAS drives are optimized to provide the best performance over a long period of time. Furthermore, you also get longer warranty periods that ensure your product will be supported just in case you have any issues. Of course, you can't mention hard drives without the name Western Digital.

Your plan price isn’t the whole story.Verizon is announcing a new price lock policy today, and the timing is probably no coincidence. The company is extending a three-year price guarantee on certain plans, both for new and existing customers. The announcement comes a day after President Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs, and Verizon says it’s hoping to give customers more “predictability” in the current economic environment. But the fine print leaves Verizon plenty of wiggle room.The three-year guarantee covers the base charge for your rate plan, but not fees and taxes — and you have to be on one of Verizon’s newer myPlan subscriptions to qualify. That means Verizon can still raise your monthly bill in the form of increased fees, which is what wireless carriers tend to do anyway when they want to charge more. They can also cut your monthly autopay discount in half, or persuade you to move to a pricier plan with the offer of a new phone. There are plenty of levers for companies like Verizon to pull, even with a price lock.The price lock isn’t the only new offer on the table, though. Verizon is also throwing in a free phone to new and existing customers. You’ll just need to trade in an old Apple, Samsung, or Google phone in any condition — and again, you’ll need to be on a myPlan subscription to take advantage. With plenty of economic uncertainty ahead, a trade-in deal might sound appealing. Just make sure you read the fine print so you know what you’re getting into.

As the US government launches investigations and threatens to pull federal funding, some elite universities have decided to take the path of least resistance. Colleges across the country have responded to the Trump administration’s attacks on diversity programs and student protesters by complying with these “anti-woke” witch hunts. In recent weeks, university administrators at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and other schools have let the government interfere with entire academic departments, fired professors over allegations of antisemitism lobbed by right-wing groups, and announced their refusal to intervene in immigration arrests on campus.The Trump administration has warned it will yank funding from institutions that it claims have engaged in racial discrimination in the form of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and enabled antisemitism by not being hard enough on pro-Palestine protesters. These aren’t empty threats: in March, the administration rescinded $400 million in funding from Columbia and froze $175 million slated for the University of Pennsylvania over the school’s policies on transgender athletes. This week, President Donald T …Read the full story at The Verge.

Following up on the release of the world's first 5K2K OLED gaming display, LG announced the pricing and availability for its GX9s series of OLED gaming monitors on Thursday. The display comes in three different varieties, but all of them sport LG's webOS platform that's been at the heart of the company's TVs for years. Now, for the first time, LG is bringing that operating system to its gaming displays.

The idea of running two operating systems on one PC is tempting, with the most popular combination being Windows and Linux. Dual-booting is the most common way to achieve this, but it's not necessarily the best option, as it can cause issues. For example, if you have both Windows and Linux installed, Windows may sometimes prevent you from booting into Linux. Using a virtual machine (VM) can, in fact, be a more suitable alternative, especially for those who need to run specific applications or test new operating systems.

The Nintendo Switch 2 has finally been formally announced, alongside a number of unexpected surprises despite the extensive leaks over the last few months. With a number of launch titles confirmed (including the exorbitantly priced $90 physical edition of Mario Kart World), a launch price of $450, and an all-new dock with 4K output support, it's the end of the road for a lot of speculation about the successor to the wildly successful Nintendo Switch... or is it?

The world moves faster than ever in 2025, with cultural trends shifting at an accelerating pace. In these times of rapid change, nostalgia can offer a comforting escape. While nostalgia sometimes offers a rose-tinted vision of the past, it also preserves elements worth holding onto and celebrating.

Yes, prices will likely go up though not right away.If you were wondering how President Trump’s tariffs may impact gadgets like smartphones, laptops, and smartwatches, there’s some bad, and perhaps slightly less-bad news. Unless something changes, Trump’s sweeping tariffs will lead to increased prices for consumers. But it will likely take some time before that actually happens.Modern gadgets generally aren’t made or assembled solely in the U.S. anymore. Device makers big and small source components from all over the world, and often have them assembled overseas before importing the final product into the country. Given that Trump has levied tariffs on every single country, it means that the cost to make all our devices will inevitably go up. “The biggest thing right now is going to be the inflationary impact,” says Jason Miller, professor of supply chain management at Michigan State University. “If they stay in place for several months, we’ll start to see those effects by mid-summer and certainly back-to-school season.” Miller notes goods shipped from China to the U.S. will face a whopping 54 percent tariffs, including most gadgets. Vietnam, where Apple has shifted some of its manufacturing, also has a high …Read the full story at The Verge.