Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 free Excel tutorials. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen is the author of 67 books about ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a spinning wheel, waiting for your Power Query to refresh, only to wonder if there’s a better way? For anyone working with large datasets, refresh delays aren’t ...

Google’s Robby Stein shares new details about the query fan-out technique in AI Mode, explaining how Google generates and executes its own queries. Google’s query fan-out technique issues multiple ...

Data wonks, rejoice! Pivot tables now automatically refresh themselves in a new beta version of Microsoft Excel. You might expect that pivot tables—which can be used to summarize rows and columns of ...

Google says images styled with CSS won’t be indexed in Image Search, advising developers to use HTML tags for important visuals. CSS background images aren’t indexed by Google Image Search. Google ...

Robot and human fingers reach out to the other, symbolizing the promise of our future. Artificial intelligence has the power to transform our lives. It needs humans to step up to harness this power.

I am an only child and my mother has always been … let’s call it “involved” with my life, and I have done my best to deal with it. Two years ago, I met my now-fiancée, “Arista,” and we are getting ...

Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), Education Futures, University of South Australia Since ChatGPT appeared almost three years ago, ...

For decades, Americans worried about their kids getting high. Now, alarming new data suggest they should be just as worried about their parents and grandparents—and demanding that their legislators ...

Either way, let’s not be in denial about it. Credit...Illustration by Christoph Niemann Supported by By Kevin Roose and Casey Newton Kevin Roose and Casey Newton are the hosts of The Times’s “Hard ...