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PyCharm IDE for Python development just got a big update

PyCharm and Google Colab are finally joining forces.
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JetBrains IDEs integrate OpenAI Codex

OpenAI’s most advanced agentic coding model is natively integrated into JetBrains AI chat in the 2025.3 version of IntelliJ, ...

Step-by-Step Guide to Plotting a Yield Curve in Excel

Learn to create a yield curve in Excel and understand its implications for interest rate forecasting. Follow our simple guide ...

Excel for Investors: Simulating Stock Prices for Better Insights

Learn to simulate stock prices with Excel and gain predictive power over market trends. Our step-by-step guide enhances your analytic skills for better investment decisions.
PC World

Use Microsoft Excel data types to save unnecessary typing

If you’ve ever doing an assignment for work or study that requires you to display information about a country, you could manually search for it and type it out in Microsoft Excel, but that would be ...
The Atlantic

How to Read the Epstein Files Like an Expert

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TechSpot

Windows 11's updated File Explorer remains painfully slow despite using twice as much RAM

Facepalm: Users have long criticized Windows 11 File Explorer as inferior to its Windows 10 predecessor. The essential tool suffers from slow launches, sluggish file searches, and delayed right-click ...
Mashable

Google says it isn't using your Gmail to train AI

Google says the claims about training Gemini AI with users' emails from Gmail are false. Credit: Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images You may have seen the now-viral warnings that Google is ...
JournalofAccountancy

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

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
GitHub

Use SharpZipLib to parse a .xlsx file hit ‘Data descriptor signature not found’ error

Python openpyxl can parse this file successfully. Looks like SharpZipLib has Stricter verification. https://pypi.org/project/openpyxl/ Office Excel cannot open this ...
The Verge

Copilot on Windows can now create Office documents and connect to Gmail

You can create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from the Copilot chat interface. You can create Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files from the Copilot chat interface. is a senior editor and author of ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using 3 Excel View tools to manage large spreadsheets

Q. I work with large spreadsheets. These spreadsheets have hundreds or even thousands of rows and often 10 or more columns. It’s so much to process that I become confused and make mistakes. Does Excel ...