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Is Your Word Document Turning into a Glitchy Mess? Here’s How to Fix It

In some cases, you can fix this issue by converting your Word document into another encoding. Open the document you want to convert, then click "File." Go to "Options" at the bottom of the startup ...

A beginner’s guide to Google Gemini Gems

Gems are highly customized genAI chatbots with specific expertise that you can use in Google Workspace apps. Here’s why ...
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Windows 11's New Paint, Annoying Taskbar Changes, and More: Windows Wednesday

Microsoft is now testing what might be the most egregious Copilot integration yet in Windows 11, which is saying something. Starting in the Beta and Dev Channels, there’s now a ‘Share with Copilot’ ...

A history of the Internet, part 3: The rise of the user

The history of the Internet can be roughly divided into three phases. The first, from 1969 to 1990, was all about the ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft's Paint now lets you save projects as layered files in the latest Insider build, as part of its continued efforts to make the default image editor great again

Keep it under your hat, but Microsoft's Paint app has been experiencing a quiet resurgence over the past few years. Oft neglected as a potential image editing tool, MS has been beavering away in the ...
GeekWire

Microsoft and OpenAI make a deal: Reading between the lines of their secretive new agreement

Sam Altman greets Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at OpenAI DevDay in San Francisco in 2023. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft and OpenAI signaled Thursday afternoon that they’ve agreed in ...
Nasdaq

Do New Microsoft Products Make It Worth Investing in the Stock?

Microsoft has been at the forefront of computing technology since its founding in 1975. Back then, even its visionary founders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, could not have conceived that 50 years later ...
Seattle Times

Microsoft fires 2 employees after protest, breaching president’s office

Microsoft fired two employees Wednesday who were arrested after breaching a building at its headquarters Tuesday afternoon to protest the tech giant’s ties to Israel, according to the company. The two ...
Reuters

Microsoft in advanced talks for continued access to OpenAI tech, Bloomberg reports

July 29 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is in advanced talks for a deal that would give the Windows maker continued access to critical OpenAI technology in the future, Bloomberg News ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft is revamping Windows 11’s Task Manager so its numbers make more sense

Microsoft devotes most of its time and energy these days to promoting new AI- and Copilot-related features for Windows 11, but the company's Windows Insider builds are still full of small tweaks and ...
Cinema Blend

Superman Just Hit Two Box Office Milestones That Make It Look Great And Make Black Adam And Thunderbolts* Look Less Than Optimal

According to the same report that revealed DC’s attempt to steal Kevin Feige from Marvel, the brass at Warner Bros. have set Superman’s worldwide financial goal post at a cool $500 million. That doesn ...
Forbes

Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities

Microsoft has admitted that it can't protect EU data from U.S. snooping. In sworn testimony before a French Senate inquiry into the role of public procurement in promoting digital sovereignty, Anton ...