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The 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship went way, way harder than it needed to with its wrestling-style intros and I’m so here for it

I’ve found something you need to see. We’ve covered the Excel World Championship before, highlighting its excellent theme song, which starts off with the immortal line: “It’s the Excel World Championship—who’s going to win?” @msexcelesports ♬ original sound – Excel Esports But this year, the organisers have upped the ante. While the championship has experimented…

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‘This is a race towards who can get more and more of the world’s 7.5 billion people to become subscribers’: IBM’s CEO says the AI industry isn’t a bubble

It might just be the industry I’m in and the chatter I’m most surrounded by, but there does seem to be a lot of anti-AI sentiment of late. In particular, there are very reasonable concerns that the AI industry might be a bubble that’s getting ready to pop. One person who isn’t quite so pessimistic,…

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Hot on the heels of Micron bailing out of the consumer RAM market, SK hynix is apparently committing over $500 billion to build four new memory fabs, with the first to be finished by 2027

Even if you only have a passing interest in PCs and technology, it can’t have escaped your notice that the whole industry has a problem with RAM. So you might think it’s good news that SK hynix is said to be investing over half a trillion dollars in building new RAM factories, but the reality…

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Todd Howard reveals that Fallout’s famous line ‘War never changes’ nearly didn’t make it into the TV show ‘because it can sound cliché’

The most iconic line in Fallout, the line that has kicked off every single Fallout game, usually spoken in the dulcet tones of the narrator Ron Perlman, almost didn’t make the cut for the Fallout TV show. This wasn’t for any insidious reason or because the showrunners didn’t like the sound of it—it was actually…

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