If you’re just dying to talk to Copilot within Excel, good news: Copilot is now a traditional Excel function within Excel for Windows and the Mac.
But wait, you say. Copilot is already in Excel! For one thing, there’s already a bit Copilot button in the upper right! If I hover my cursor over an empty Excel shell, a Copilot icon appears!
Bless your heart. That’s not Excel! Real Excel nerds…
For many months, AMD offered a special treat to enthusiasts wishing to run AI chatbot LLMs on their PCs: configurable VRAM that significantly improved performance. Now Intel can say the same.
Bob Duffy, who oversees Intel’s AI Playground application for running AI art and…
Can you imagine yourself having a conversation with Windows about what your PC is doing? Microsoft’s Windows chief can, and is trying to build a future where those interactions are the norm.
In an interview with Microsoft AI product manager Christiaan Brinkhoff, the chief…
AMD’s X3D continues to dominate desktop PCs
August 15, 2025
AMD’s share in the desktop PC market climbed by a mammoth total of 9.2 percentage points versus last year, a ringing endorsement for AMD’s Ryzen chips and especially its X3D lineup of gaming processors.
AMD snatched headlines for its first-quarter performance, where its desktop market share grew by 4.1 percentage points, or just 0.9 of a percentage point from the previous quarter. During the…
The U.S. government may take a stake in Intel
August 15, 2025
The U.S. government is discussing whether it will take a stake in beleaguered chipmaker Intel Corp. as a way to bail it out of its financial struggles, according to a report.
Bloomberg reported that the two sides were in discussions, but nothing has been decided: not when…
Yesterday was Patch Tuesday for Microsoft, which means tons of security updates across the company’s products and services. Specifically, 107 new security vulnerabilities have been patched.
Microsoft classifies several of the vulnerabilities in Windows and Office as…
Nobody really expects Windows on Arm PCs to keep up with their cousins running games locally on AMD or Intel CPUs — but until now, they had trouble simply being allowed to do so. Now, Microsoft is testing a way to enable local gaming via the Xbox app on Windows on Arm PCs.
You’ve always been able to game on a PC running with Windows on Arm, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor inside.
A decent antivirus program and VPN are a great first line of defense against hackers. But if you haven’t tweaked certain Windows settings, you could still be leaving back doors open for malicious actors to access your PC and compromise your sensitive data.
Here are the…
Windows 10 support is ending. Here’s what you need to do now
August 13, 2025
Support for Windows 10 is set to end in October 2025, but that doesn’t have to be the final curtain. With the extended security updates, you’ll continue to receive support for up to 10 systems for one year at no cost. It’s worth signing up if you plan to keep using…
15 must-use free apps for your college laptop
August 13, 2025
College can be extremely expensive — not just with tuition and dorm costs, but with materials, books, software, and more. You might think you have to spend lots of cash on apps to get you through your degree.
But, really, you don’t have to spend any money at all! (Except in rare situations where you need a very specific software for class, in which case your college should ideally provide you…
