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iPhone users can free up significant storage space without upgrading iCloud by using a built-in tool to review and delete large attachments from text messages. This method targets duplicate photos, videos, and files accumulated over time, offering a cost-effective alternative to purchasing additional cloud storage.
Microsoft is testing a major structural change in Excel that allows single cells to store lists, arrays, and nested arrays, breaking the decades-old one-value-per-cell limitation. The feature, currently in beta for Microsoft 365 Insiders, introduces new functions like HAS, HAS ANY, and FLATTEN to manage complex data structures. While it enables compact data handling and easier filtering, support for conditional formatting, pivot tables, and charts remains limited.
Despite its 40-year history and widespread use, Excel remains a staple in business for quick data analysis, but organizations are increasingly seeking to replace it with more secure, automated, and AI-integrated systems to improve data control and operational efficiency, though resistance due to familiarity and control issues persists.
The article advocates for using external hard drives as a cheaper and more control-oriented alternative to cloud storage subscriptions for backing up photos and videos, emphasizing the long-term cost savings, increased ownership, and the benefits of manual file management.
Despite the rise of AI and programming languages like Python, Excel remains the most in-demand skill in Silicon Valley job listings, highlighting its continued importance in data management and business operations even amidst fierce competition for AI talent.
Shortcut AI automates up to 90% of repetitive tasks in Excel and Google Sheets, enhancing efficiency and accuracy in data management, financial modeling, and analysis through AI-driven features like error detection, natural language processing, and customizable visualizations, suitable for a wide range of users from professionals to small business owners.
NASA faces a potential data disaster due to the abrupt cancellation of missions without proper data transition or archiving plans, risking widespread data loss and scattering unless individuals take initiative to preserve it independently.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will generate an unprecedented 20 terabytes of data nightly, requiring advanced cloud-based data handling, multiple data centers, and AI-driven brokers to manage and analyze the vast amount of astronomical data and alerts efficiently over the next decade.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will generate about 60 million billion bytes of astronomical image data over a decade, using advanced data processing, AI, and cloud computing to analyze and identify celestial phenomena, transforming traditional astronomy into a big data science.
Google tracks your location data to improve services and target advertising, but hidden controls within your account settings allow you to manage and delete this data, including an auto-delete feature that enhances privacy by automatically purging history periodically. Regularly managing your location data reduces privacy risks and limits targeted advertising, giving you greater control over your digital footprint.
Salesforce's $8 billion acquisition of Informatica aims to enhance its AI capabilities by leveraging Informatica's data management expertise, positioning the company to compete in the evolving AI agent market and expand its customer base, despite some skepticism about the company's recent earnings performance.
Salesforce has acquired data management firm Informatica for $8 billion to enhance its AI and data infrastructure capabilities, aiming to improve enterprise AI safety, responsibility, and scalability. This move follows previous acquisitions and signals Salesforce's focus on strengthening its data and AI offerings.
Salesforce is acquiring data management company Informatica for $8 billion to enhance its AI capabilities, combining Informatica’s data catalog and governance services with its Agentforce AI platform, funded through cash and debt.
GOG will delete cloud save files exceeding 200MB per game after August 31, urging players to review and manage their files to avoid loss. This measure aims to ensure manageable storage space and control costs. Local saves on computers will remain unaffected.
Gmail users have 30 days to recover deleted emails from the trash folder before they are permanently deleted. If emails are accidentally deleted and the trash is emptied prematurely, Google's Gmail Message Recovery Tool may help recover them, though success is not guaranteed. Regularly checking trash and spam folders and avoiding manual emptying can prevent loss of important emails.