Use Microsoft Excel data types to save unnecessary typing

If you’ve ever doing an assignment for work or study that requires you to display information about a country, you could ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft says new Outlook can't open some Excel attachments

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that prevents some users from opening Excel email attachments in the new Outlook client. According to a service alert (EX1189359) seen by BleepingComputer ...
Bloomberg L.P.

What AI Bubble? BNEF Outlook for Data Center Power Use Rises 36%

Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider’s previous outlook in April. The upward revision in ...
The Verge

Google is collecting troves of data from downgraded Nest thermostats

First- and second-gen Nest Learning Thermostats are still transmitting information to Google about temperature, humidity, lighting, and more. First- and second-gen Nest Learning Thermostats are still ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Hassett Says Lost October Data Means ‘Cloudy’ Economic Outlook

White House National Economic Director Kevin Hassett said the record-long government shutdown means that some of the economic data that was supposed to be collected in October may never be recorded, ...
SpaceNews

Managing space domain awareness data has become a greater challenge than collecting it

Demand has never been greater for the monitoring of objects in orbit and the coordination of their safe movement. The number of active satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) has surged from less than a ...
The Conversation

Why people don’t demand data privacy – even as governments and corporations collect more personal information

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Ars Technica

DHS offers “disturbing new excuses” to seize kids’ biometric data, expert says

Civil and digital rights experts are horrified by a proposed rule change that would allow the Department of Homeland Security to collect a wide range of sensitive biometric data on all immigrants, ...
Futurism

Secret Elon Musk Lab Is Collecting Data on Every Human Activity to Train Robots

Elon Musk’s Optimus Robots are currently Looney Tunes slapstick disasters. But there’s a massive effort behind the scenes to make sure they don’t stay clumsy clankers forever. Enter Tesla’s secret lab ...
Inside Higher Ed

Colleges Push Back Against Trump’s Effort to Collect More Admissions Data

Institutions of higher education and their advocates are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s plan to require colleges to submit new data about their admissions decisions. They argued ...
Grist

The EPA is ending greenhouse gas data collection. Who will step up to fill the gap?

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop ...