How-To Geek on MSN

Nobody told me about these 5 Excel PivotTable tricks—now I use them every day

PivotTables can do more than you think, from splitting reports by category to calculating unique counts and percentage growth ...

Microsoft Copilot can now handle more of your finance work in Excel with reusable skills and data connectors

Microsoft added reusable Skills, new financial data connectors, and traceability features to Copilot in Excel, built specifically for finance teams.
MUO on MSN

Two new Excel functions replaced every pivot table I used to build

Excel formulas are getting scary good.
Politico

EPA won't set nationwide standards for data centers

The Trump administration is not going to set nationwide environmental requirements or recommendations for the rapidly growing data center industry, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Wednesday. While ...
Wall Street Journal

America’s Data-Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule

Tech companies are earmarking unprecedented sums of money to finance the build-out of massive data centers, with a planned $85 billion equity-raise by Google parent Alphabet GOOGL1.17%increase; up ...
Pensacola News Journal

Defense AI data center eyeing Escambia. FloridaWest says nothing to fear

FloridaWest has signed a non-disclosure agreement with a "smaller, defense AI data center" that is looking at property in Escambia County, but there is no negotiation at this point to build here ...
IPWatchdog

Destroying the Intended Purpose of a Reference May Not Be a ‘Golden Ticket’ to Patentability

“The Federal Circuit has noted that the ‘loss of key functionality’ in a prior art combination does not necessarily render the combination unsatisfactory for its intended purpose.” Thus, the question ...
Wired

Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds

A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data. Researchers at EPIC ...
The Washington Post

Data center water use is not sustainable in the dry American West

Independent reporting you can trust. After years of failed negotiations between the states and decades of negligent water management, we now have just months for federal officials to decide how to ...
techtimes

Excel Pivot Tables Guide to Spreadsheet Analysis, Pivot Charts Slicers, and Data Modeling

Explore Excel Pivot Tables for faster spreadsheet analysis, using slicers, pivot charts, calculated fields, and data modeling to turn raw data into clear, interactive insights. Pixabay, Conmongt Excel ...
Microsoft

Using inexpensive MicroLEDs, Microsoft networking innovation aims to make datacenters more efficient

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — Before appearing on a screen in your hand or on your desk, this story and its photos existed as pulses of light, fired by lasers, that passed through strands of glass as fine as a ...
TechRepublic

Anthropic’s Claude Now Connects Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint Workflows

Anthropic upgraded Claude’s Excel and PowerPoint add-ins with shared context, reusable Skills, and cross-app workflows for business users. Anthropic is expanding the capabilities of its AI assistant, ...