This week, Microsoft released PowerToys 0.94, a feature-packed utility suite for Windows 11 “power users.” The first big change is a search box inside the Settings menu, allowing users to type inexact search terms. Results appear as suggestions in a flyout menu with the option to open a single option …
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Dutch string theorist Dr. Erik Verlinde insists on saying gravity doesn’t exist. The good professor clearly does not believe that if he stops holding onto his briefcase, it will do anything other than fall. But he definitely believes we’re thinking of it all wrong. And if it turns out he’s right, …
Read More »Inside Intel’s phenomenal effort to end its use of conflict minerals
We tend to think that large corporations have total, intentional control over their own businesses — local abuses are quite reasonably assumed to derive from pressures from above, to be extensions of the overall corporate culture rather than exceptions to it. But highly complex and, particularly, highly globalized companies often …
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