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Manage and Format Data in Excel
Microsoft Office expert Paul McFedries illustrates methods for filling cells based on existing data, formatting and validating data, and applying advanced conditional formatting and filtering. This includes how to use Flash Fill and advanced Fill Series options.
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Amazon Alexa isn’t the surveillance nightmare that some privacy advocates say it is, but neither should you take your privacy for granted. After all, you’ve invited a dedicated listening device into your home, a device that, moreover, sends recordings of your voice to some cloud and stores them there. Is Alexa always listening? Is Alexa recording everything you say? There are steps you can (and should) take to protect your personal data.
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The Language We Invented as We Invented the Future
I wrote my first Technically Speaking column way back in June 2002. How long ago was that? Long ago enough that some companies that seem now to have been around forever weren’t even gleams in their founders’ eyes: Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype, Twitter, YouTube.
The Language of the Dark Web
Part of the mythology of the early Internet was that it was going to make the world a better place by giving voice to the masses and leveling playing fields. Light was the metaphor of choice.
Jerktech: When Callow Ideas Become Code
In a recent issue of The New Yorker, a cartoon depicts a psychiatric patient lying on a couch with his therapist sitting behind him. The caption reads, “I guess I want what everyone wants—a billion dollars for being a jerk.” We chuckle because we recognize an unfortunate truth—that many of the young bros running today’s most successful tech startups are arrogant boors. It’s why we see so much jerktech: apps or other technologies that encourage or monetize antisocial behavior.
Agile Development Spawns a Lexicon
In his 1957 book Parkinson’s Law, and Other Studies in Administration, the naval historian and author C. Northcote Parkinson writes of a fictional committee meeting during which, after a two-and-a-half-minute nondiscussion on whether to build a nuclear reactor worth US $10 million, the members spend 45 minutes discussing the power plant’s bike shed, worth $2,350.
Data Divination - IEEE Spectrum
The results of recent votes, particularly the U.S. presidential election and the United Kingdom’s referendum on leaving the European Union (better known as Brexit) left many surprised.
Behold the Cloud of Clouds: The Intercloud
When I first wrote about cloud computing way back in 2008 [see IEEE Spectrum, August 2008], there was a gee-whiz aura surrounding this relatively new way of storing our data and provisioning computing resources. Now, more than eight years later, cloud computing is just another humdrum piece of technology.
The Internet of Things Is Full of Motes, Domotics, and BANs
Hang around the Web long enough and you’ll see more than your share of cartoons mocking the Internet of Things. (I refer, of course, to the collection of uniquely identifiable devices that are connected to the Internet and are capable of transmitting and receiving data over that connection.) “We have to go out for dinner,” runs one typical caption.
Fending Off The Tyranny of Tools
If you program, you will occasionally need some useful bit of code from an online source such as Stack Overflow. You might then have noticed something interesting: If you simply copy and paste the code, you don’t remember it and often have to repeat the process later on. However, if you type the code yourself, then you are much more likely to remember it. You get what I call a “fingertip feel” for the text that somehow enables your brain to internalize it better.
You Don’t Actually Own Your Data and Devices
One of the contradictions of our age is that while the Internet increasingly makes all kinds of information available, many devices and services are increasingly including less accessibility as a feature. For every Wikipedia that you can edit, there are a thousand devices and appliances that are manufactured to discourage tampering.
vulgarati - Word Spy
Members of the elite who are crude or who lack good breeding or taste.
Google hands - Word Spy
Inadvertent images of the hands of scanner operators who are working on digitization projects for Google.
fun sponge - Word Spy
A joyless or grumpy person who soaks up all the fun out of an event or situation.
multicrastinating - Word Spy
Procrastinating by performing multiple non-work tasks simultaneously.
The Great Transmogrification of Atoms to Bits
As I mentioned in my February 2013 column, “Balancing Act,” the belief that our life offline is separate from our life online has been denounced as digital dualism. But there’s less of a debate when it comes to differentiating between analog objects and digital data. Yes, the print and electronic copies of the same book contain the same words, but it’s obvious to most people (and, increasingly, to researchers) that the two reading experiences are quite different.
black elephant - Word Spy
An unlikely but significant risk that everyone knows about, but no one wants to discuss.
hellabyte - Word Spy
An extremely large but unspecified amount of data.
bacn - Word Spy
Non-personal, non-spam email messages that you have signed up for, but do not necessarily want or have time to read.
pluto-populism - Word Spy
A political movement in which a wealthy individual offers ideas and policies that appeal to the common person.
fauxhemian - Word Spy
Relating to something that is bohemian in a fake or pretentious manner.
bookalike - Word Spy
A book cover that closely resembles another.
When Technology Hates Us
Our lives are immeasurably easier and more connected than we could ever have imagined just 20 years ago. But to reap these benefits, we’ve had to cozy up to our tech. So close, in fact, that it has become personal, almost a part of who we are. But every now and then, that closeness enables us to see a darker side of the relationship: Sometimes, it seems, our devices are actively working against us.
narcissocracy - Word Spy
Government by the excessively self-centered.
climatarian - Word Spy
A person whose diet consists primarily of foods that do not contribute to human-induced climate change.
gift creep - Word Spy
A gradual increase in the value or extent of one's gift-giving.
Bitcoin Mints New Words
Is Bitcoin destined to become the Facebook of money, or the Second Life? That is, will Bitcoin become universal, a medium of exchange used by just about everyone, or will it remain a curiosity, a tool used only by a dedicated fringe (in Bitcoin’s case, criminals and privacy extremists)? As a mere language columnist, I haven’t the foggiest, but I can tell you that, no matter what its fate, Bitcoin is generating new words and phrases at an inflationary rate.
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