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Wes Davis

Google Sheets’ new formatting feature has Excel switchers excited

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Google has now added a way to create easily formatted tables in Sheets with one click, something Excel has had for years. Now, if you have a block of data that you’d like to quickly turn into its own little island of filters and sorting rules, that’s fully possible (or will be soon, depending on where you are in Google’s rollout queue). Hooray!

As a person who’s maintained a shared budget spreadsheet in Google Sheets for about a decade...

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Jack Milko

How did each of these 16 LIV golfers get into 2024 PGA Championship field

Jon Rahm during a Wednesday practice round ahead of the 2024 PGA Championship. | Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images

Sixteen LIV Golf stars will tee it up at Valhalla, so here is how they gained entry into this year’s PGA Championship.

For only the second time this season, PGA Tour and LIV Golf professionals will tee it up side-by-side at the PGA Championship.

Golf fans everywhere welcome that, as golf’s great schism has accomplished only one goal to date: elevate the importance...

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Sorry, But There’s Zero Chance Anyone Under 22 Is Going To Pass This Early 2000s

Okay, homeskillets, it's time to chillax and totes take this off the chain quiz.

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Umar Shakir

Android 15’s second beta release lets users lock down access to private apps

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Alongside Google’s ongoing developer-focused I/O conference comes the latest release of Android 15, which is now in its second beta. It’s got some cool new features, like the ability to now hide a collection of apps inside a “private space,” customizable vibrations so you can notice different types of notifications just by feeling, and also richer widget previews.

The new private space function is the most interesting of the bunch: it can hide apps you don’t...

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Lauren Feiner

Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with ‘dark patterns’

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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed two new lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday, bringing similar complaints to those the company is already facing from the Federal Trade Commission.

Both of the lawsuits are brought under Arizona’s own state statutes in the Superior Court of Arizona. One of the lawsuits accuses Amazon of engaging in deceptive business practices that violate the state’s Consumer Fraud Act by allegedly using design...

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Michael M. Grynbaum

CNN and ABC Snag the Presidential Debates

In a matter of hours, two networks outmaneuvered their rivals and landed a coveted pair of Biden-Trump prime-time debates.

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LeBron attends draft combine to watch Bronny

LeBron James showed up at the NBA draft combine and sat in the second row for son Bronny's second and final scrimmage on Wednesday.

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Astros' Blanco gets 10-game ban for sticky glove

Astros pitcher Ronel Blanco was suspended 10 games and fined an undisclosed amount after he was ejected by umpires Tuesday for a foreign substance in his glove.

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Tim MacMahon

'These young kids, they have no fear': Kyrie Irving, the last of the NBA playoffs' old guard

The older generation of superstars is gone, bounced from the postseason -- with one exception.

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Ramona Shelburne

'He wasn't scared': How Chet Holmgren became a perfect fit for SGA and an OKC team built for a dynasty

There's Jokic and Murray in Denver, Tatum and Brown in Boston, KAT and Luka and Kyrie in Dallas. Then there's OKC's Chet and SGA, the youngest and most tantalizing duo of them all.

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Sheena Vasani

Microsoft announces the Proteus Controller, a gamepad for Xbox gamers with disabilities

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On Wednesday, Microsoft announced the Proteus Controller, a $299 modular video game controller kit that lets Xbox gamers with disabilities customize their controllers.

Created by peripheral company ByoWave as part of the Designed for Xbox program, the wireless controller consists of small cubes with interchangeable faceplates that include controller buttons, a directional pad, and analog sticks.

The “snap and play” parts connect together so gamers can build more...

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Richard Lawler

AT&T cuts a deal to launch satellite-to-smartphone service soon

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AST SpaceMobile has ramped up demonstrations of voice calls, texts, and video calls via satellite over the last year, using 4G LTE and 5G connections with download bandwidth reaching 14Mbps. Now the company says that a previous memorandum of understanding with AT&T to work on a space-based broadband network for phones has become a “definitive commercial agreement,” just in time for AST’s first five commercial satellites to launch this summer.

The FCC has...

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Justine Calma

Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivers a speech during an event called Microsoft Build: AI Day in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 2nd, 2024. | Photo by MOHD RASFAN / AFP via Getty Images

Microsoft’s producing a lot more planet-heating pollution now than it did when it made a bold climate pledge back in 2020. Its greenhouse gas emissions were actually around 30 percent higher in fiscal year 2023, showing how hard it could be for the company to meet climate goals as it simultaneously...

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Mark Schofield

F1 drivers answer the question: ‘What does Ayrton Senna mean to you?’

Tributes continue to pour in for Ayrton Senna, as F1 returns to Imola

As the 2024 Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix approaches, tributes continue to pour in for Ayrton Senna. This weekend’s race marks 30 years since the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, a weekend which saw the tragic deaths of both Senna and Roland Ratzenberger.

The latest tribute for Senna? A video from F1 featuring several current drivers on the grid, answering this question: What does Ayrton Senna mean to...

Mashable

Meta is shutting down its Slack rival 'Workplace' — here's why

As Meta continues its pivot to AI and the Metaverse, there will inevitably be countless products and features that the company sunsets as a result.

Meta has now confirmed one of those products that it is shutting down: Workplace, a private social network platform for companies. TechCrunch first reported the news on Tuesday and Meta has since confirmed it.

“We are discontinuing Workplace from Meta so we can focus on building AI and metaverse technologies that we believe will fundamentally...

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No need to look up from your phone. Apple is trying to cure your motion sickness.

If staring at your phone in a moving vehicle is a puke-worthy or vertigo-inducing experience, Apple's new Vehicle Motion Cues might be a solution.

Announced along with a series of other new accessibility features, Vehicle Motion Cues turn built-in motion sensors in iPhone and iPads into anti-sickness aids.

SEE ALSO: Apple adds new accessibility features across the senses, including eye tracking

"Research shows that motion sickness is commonly...

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'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' review: George Miller's blazing action folktale might just have outdone 'Fury Road'

A bombastic wasteland folktale, George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is an ingenious, eye-popping prequel to his near-perfect action romp Mad Max: Fury Road. While it revisits several characters and locations we've already seen, it's also a wildly different beast, one that replaces its predecessor's mile-a-minute chase structure with a years-spanning story that elevates the series' operatic imagery to the level of biblical myth.

Furiosa is vicious and pulsating despite taking its time....

Mashable

Conner O'Malley's new standup special is a scathing critique of our AI reality

Pressing play on a Conner O'Malley video is a disorienting experience.

Could it be a continuation of a previous character or universe? Could it be another installation of Truth Hunters host Mark Seevers, O'Malley's creation for the 2016 election that resembled Alex Jones if he were locked in a Wisconsin basement for two years, subsisting only on hot dog relish and stale buns? Sure. Could it be another video featuring the version of O'Malley hosting a late-night show on a bike, cruising...

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Congress clears major aviation safety and refunds bill

The bill prohibits airlines from charging fees for families to sit together and requires them to accept vouchers and credits issued in lieu of refunds for at least five years.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a broad aviation bill to boost air traffic controller staffing, increase funding to avert runway close-call incidents, and speed refunds for canceled flights.

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