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The Microsoft Excel World Championship handed the 2024 trophy to a beaming, bearded Canadian: Michael Jarman, whose spreadsheet skills topped all others in a heated competition in Las Vegas this week.

Jarman, a modelling director at Operis (financial, not swimsuit) also walked away with a $5,000 check and the appreciative cheers of those gathered in the Hyp

If you’re still using the old Sticky Notes app on Windows, you may have run into an issue recently where you can’t log into the app anymore. The problem is affecting many users at the moment, both on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

The issue was first raised on

Those Intel, AMD, and Nvidia stickers on your laptop aren’t just pretty decoration. They’re part of some big (and very intentional) branding programs with huge amounts of money behind them. That’s why Valve is turning heads with some adjustment to its branding guidelines, with new and very official “Powered by SteamOS” logos and trademarks.

The new logo app

In a world where ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude are making one breakthrough after another as they chase the holy grail of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), Amazon’s Alexa is looking decidedly quaint, if not antiquated. 

So the world took notice in September 2023 when

I’ve been mounting my desktop PCs under my desk for years because it’s a great way to free up space and avoid cable issues, especially when you’re using a standing desk like I do.

But a German company has made an itty-bitty desktop PC that can truly disappear down there, mounted directly to the underside of the desk itself and protruding only just a couple

As a tech journalist, it’s rare that I get the chance to evangelize for old technology, but today I’m going to take a shot at it. While my colleagues have upgraded their virtual reality setups over the years to new Pimax and HP headsets, and while my casual VR friends are all playing on their Meta Quests, I’m still rocking a Vive Pro.

I have some good reaso

Ah, the PC gaming versus console gaming debate. As we head into 2025, the discussion is no longer about whether playing Super Mario on the SNES is better or worse than Doom on the PC. The line between console and PC gaming has grown so blurry that the similarities now far outweigh the differences. There’s little that separates them.

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