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The strangest Excel functions you'll never use

D espite its age, Excel continues to evolve with new functions being added over time. There are newer better Excel functions ...

Struggling with Excel Formula Errors? This Guide Has the Answers

Fix Excel formulas that won’t spill! Learn how to troubleshoot #VALUE errors caused by Analysis ToolPak functions and improve your workflow.

Excel’s New Clean Data Button Will Save You Hours : But There’s a Catch

Is Excel's Clean Data button the ultimate time-saver for messy spreadsheets? Find out how it works, its quirks, and how it compares to Power Query ...
PC World

This obscure Microsoft Excel tool imports PDF data without mangling it

I don’t use Microsoft Excel all that often, so it remains a bit of a mystery to me. I can enter text and create graphs and that’s basically it. That’s why I’ve set myself a goal to learn one new Excel ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel ... is the text that appears before the dash and color. See the formula for this in the screenshot below. The TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions ...
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Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the Data tab on the ribbon, and created the rule in the Data Validation dialog ...
9to5Mac

T-Mobile customer call and text data captured from unencrypted satellite comms; military data too

Security researchers at two US universities were able to intercept T-Mobile customer call and text data from completely unencrypted satellite communications. Researchers were also able to eavesdrop on ...
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Florida files lawsuit against Roku for exploiting kids' data without parental consent

Delray Beach Dollar General employee arrested for alleged $2,000 theft in gift card scheme A Delray Beach man was arrested Thursday evening in connection with a theft of nearly $2,000 from a local ...
Reuters

Cisco rolls out chip designed to connect AI data centers over vast distances

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Cisco Systems (CSCO.O), opens new tab launched on Wednesday a new networking chip designed to connect artificial intelligence data centers, with the cloud computing ...
Reuters

a16z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal

Merger creates $600-million-revenue data infrastructure company Fivetran CEO Fraser to lead combined company Deal highlights AI-driven data infrastructure demand Oct 13 (Reuters) - Data startups ...
Wired

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from ...
Android Authority

An $800 DIY setup was all it took to intercept some T-Mobile data (Updated: T-Mobile statement)

Researchers intercepted T-Mobile call and text data using an $800 off-the-shelf satellite setup. Around half of the satellite links they scanned were unencrypted, including military data. T-Mobile ...