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The 17 Best Weekend Deals on Phones, Face Masks, and Keyboards
A new season is a perfect excuse to upgrade old MacBooks, earbuds, and streaming sticks.
How to remove direct formatting in a Word document
In Microsoft Word, direct formatting is great when used conservatively, but removing it in a document littered with it is difficult. These Word tips might help.
“It’s a Love Letter”: The Producers of Star Wars: Visions Celebrate the Unique Anime Collection
There is a moment in “The Duel,” the first short in the new Star Wars: Visions anthology, when the Sith Bandit jabs at a waterfall with her red lightsaber. Listen carefully and you’ll find the sound effect generated by the sizzling blade meeting the natural element matches another moment: when Darth Maul, separated from the […]
Arturito and Me
I remember the exact moment. My mom looked at 12-year old me with a face that was equal parts disbelief and indifference. “No se llama Arturito?” she asked. “No, his name isn’t Arturito,” I responded. “It’s R2-D2.” Turns out my mom, like many Latin American parents of kids born in the ‘70s and ‘80s, thought everyone’s […]
New Microsoft analytics tools help identify and understand trends without compromising privacy
Developed to help policy-makers research human trafficking, these techniques for synthetic privacy, casual inference and visualizing complex graph statistics could be useful for many other problems.
Visions Revisited: 5 Highlights from “Tatooine Rhapsody”
Visions // SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 Studio Colorido’s musical short takes us back to where it all began beneath the twin suns. Star Wars: Visions is here! The anthology series is now streaming on Disney+, featuring original shorts from some of the world’s best anime studios. In Visions Revisited, StarWars.com picks the greatest moments from each short. […]
16 Deals to Help Deck Out Your Home Office
Is your work space lacking in form and function? Some of our favorite desks, webcams, and keyboards are discounted right now.
Darth Vader Has Luke Skywalker Now in Marvel’s Star Wars #17 – Exclusive Preview
Books + Comics // SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 Meanwhile, Leia takes her shot to rescue Han. StarWars.com Team Above the Polar Sea of Jekara, Luke Skywalker’s scanners detect a nefarious presence, but Darth Vader is nowhere in sight. That is, at least, until his TIE emerges from where Luke least expects it. In Marvel’s Star Wars […]
What Microsoft is doing to ease the tensions of remote work
Culture may eat strategy for breakfast; right now, both need to emphasize flexibility, empathy and taking advantage of tools that make hybrid work more successful and less of a burden.