This obscure Microsoft Excel tool imports PDF data without mangling it

I don’t use Microsoft Excel all that often, so it remains a bit of a mystery to me. I can enter text and create graphs and ...
PC Magazine

Watch That Clip Later: How to Download YouTube Videos

There are numerous ways to download YouTube videos, allowing you to view them offline. Here are a few of the easiest and most effective methods. People watch literally a billion hours of video on ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Excel's Custom Data Validation: A Trick You Didn't Know You Needed

If you've used data validation in Excel before, you probably selected the relevant cells, clicked "Data Validation" in the ...
CNN

Nursery hackers delete children’s data following backlash, UK media reports

Hackers who stole the data of more than 8,000 children including photos, addresses and names and published some of the information on the dark web have removed the posts online and claim to have ...
The Hindu

Cotton import duty cuts: The farms versus firms debate

The Indian government’s removal of the 11% import duty on cotton has drawn protests from farmer unions. The textile industry, however, has welcomed the move, as it faces the burden of punitive 50% ...
Mining

EU to cut steel import quotas, hike tariffs to 50%

The European Commission will propose cutting steel import quotas by nearly half and hiking duties on volumes above those levels to 50% in line with tariffs imposed by the US and Canada, two sources ...
Metro

Harrods warns customers their data may have been stolen in IT breach

Harrods has warned that its IT systems have been breached, potentially compromising online customers’ details (Picture: Getty Images) Harrods has warned online customers that their data may have been ...
National Post

Former RBC employee charged with fraud, identity theft for accessing Mark Carney’s personal data

Ibrahim El-Hakim, a 23-year old man living in Ottawa, has been charged with fraud over $5,000 and identity theft, RCMP confirmed You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...
The New Yorker

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.
Moneyweb

US firms shed 32 000 jobs in ADP report after data adjustment

Payrolls at US companies unexpectedly dropped in September, due at least in part to issues with data analysis. Private-sector payrolls decreased by 32 000 after a revised 3 000 decline a month earlier ...
Android Police

Google My Activity: How you can use it to keep your data safe

Your Google account can store a lot of information about the websites you visit or searches you make. The My Activity tool allows you to manage and delete that data with a few taps. Using one of the ...