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Manual color-coding is breaking your Excel spreadsheets—here's the fix

Stop painting cells and use conditional formatting to build accessible, formula-ready, and automated Excel spreadsheets.
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“The next big lemming-like rush will be to artificial intelligence”: While 1985 was hailed as the year of AI, Bill Gates ignored the hype to focus on ‘softer software’

Bill Gates didn’t reject intelligence in software back then, rather he rejected the mythology around it. By talking about “softer software,” he envisioned systems that learned from users, adapted to ...
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I build all my calendars in Excel—here's how you can too

Stay on top of your personal and work commitments.

OpenAI deploys Cerebras chips for 'near-instant' code generation in first major move beyond Nvidia

OpenAI launches GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark, a Cerebras-powered, ultra-low-latency coding model that claims 15x faster generation speeds, signaling a major inference shift beyond Nvidia as the company faces ...

OpenAI’s rapid GPT-5.3-Codex model moves beyond simple coding tasks

“Codex-Spark is the first step toward a Codex that works in two complementary modes: real-time collaboration when you want ...

Build an Excel Checklist Thast Updates Itself with Tables & Checkboxes

Create a self-updating Excel checklist with checkboxes, IFS due-date priority, and a progress data bar for faster tracking.