I used to think I was pretty efficient in Excel until I started noticing how much time I wasted on repetitive work. I cleaned up columns, pulled values from different tables, fixed formatting, checked for duplicates, and ran the same little routines over and over again.

The importance of using a quality power supply is obvious to even new PC builders. It's the component that protects your expensive hardware from potentially devastating electrical shenanigans. What's way less obvious is the underlying make-up of the wires running from the PSU to the motherboard. These wires follow a standard established before some of you were even born.

After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward.On Monday, the company announced a new independent panel of mathematicians tasked with advising it and other AI companies on their interactions with mathematical research and the wider mathematics community, including how new results are presented and released. Its abrupt arrival caught many mathematicians by surprise. Researchers told The Verge the group is a good first step, but many said they were left with basic questions about what it will actually do, how …Read the full story at The Verge.

For the longest time, we have been conditioned to believe the built-in Windows tools are somehow inferior to third-party options. That's a major reason behind the popularity of programs like CCleaner for clearing unnecessary files or ShareX for capturing screenshots. Frankly, I have got nothing against these third-party tools. They may work for some — even I use a couple of them — but it's also important to note that native Windows tools have improved significantly over the years.

This 20,000mAh UGreen Nexode power bank is the perfect solution if you need to charge your devices on the go. It can deliver 130W in total power, which is enough to charge up even larger devices like laptops and tablets.

Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the studio is even closer to becoming one of the world's biggest production houses. In addition to spending at least $300 million more on film and TV projects produced in the US, Paramount says that it will release a minimum of 30 movies annually after it absorbs WBD. On paper, these goals make it sound like Paramount is trying to ensure that the entertainment industry won't be harmed by its WBD acquisition. But when you look at the studios' recent output, it seems very much like Paramount CEO Dav …Read the full story at The Verge.

Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 "agentic operating system" runs in the cloud but operates locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices.According to Rabbit, you can add up to five devices to one account, along with your preferred AI models. OS3 will automatically determine the devices, files, apps, and AI models it needs to complete a task. You can also access OS3 through its dedicated desktop site, a paired messaging app like Telegram or iMessage, as well as on Rabbit's R1 device …Read the full story at The Verge.

During the Snapdragon Summit 2026's opening keynote, Motorola revealed the Signature 27, one of the first smartphones to be released in the U.S. that's powered by Qualcomm's recently revealed Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip.

Nearly every guide for Obsidian out there assumes you're there to take notes, which is fair enough, it is a markdown editor after all. But once you've been in the app for a while, you realize the note-taking becomes the least interesting thing about it, and dare I even say the least useful thing about it. Given that the vault is just a regular folder with plain text files, JSON files, and perhaps a couple of image files on your disk, you have complete freedom to create any setup you want and because Obsidian just reads the folder, whatever setup you build shows up inside the app itself too, creating the perfect workflow loop…

My media library is a highly curated experience set up to meet my precise needs. I download, organize, and add movies and TV shows to the library, and Jellyfin handles playback across devices. Over time, I've given close friends and family members access to this library, which has, unfortunately, created its own set of problems.

It has been quite a dramatic day over in the KDE community. Earlier today, we reported that a discussion about AI-generated content guidelines devolved into a community fight, ending with the thread creator locking it and asking everyone to take 24 hours to cool off. Now, a sub-community has made itself known, asking for KDE developers to support a full ban on all generative AI.

If you use motion sensors for the lights in your home, you've probably experienced being plunged into total darkness because your motion sensor assumes the room is empty when you're sitting still or resting. Traditional passive infrared sensors aren't presence sensors; they are motion detectors, meaning they look for shifting infrared heat signatures. If you aren't actively moving, you become invisible.