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TL;DR: Microsoft Visio Professional 2021 for Windows is on sale for £19.78, saving you 90% on list price. Does your job require complex data sharing? Do org charts and flowcharts take up a big part of your or your team's workweek? If so, you may want to look into this software from the big brains at MS Visio Professional 2021 . This software offers more straightforward ways to present your data. It gives you access to diagramming tools that make it possible to unlock a new realm of productivity and precise communication. And it's on sale for just £19.78 for a limited time. If you need flowcharts, you can pick from a huge selection of shapes, stencils, and templates for a more customisable diagram. Work with your team to create a floor plan with a better flow or a new floor plan altogether if you're moving to a new space. Visio allows you to automatically generate org charts from other software, such as Excel or Microsoft Entra ID. And if you have a touch-enabled dev...

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for April 1's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. What is Connections ? The NYT 's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common. Tweet may have been...

Waffle House is one of those uniquely American institutions-turned-meme. The 24/7 chain is not only a place where you can order a breakfast combo at 3AM, but where unruly customers have been known to show up ready to throw hands (and sometimes chairs). Given its notoriety for late-night brawls, it’s exactly the type of setting that would make for a perfect backdrop in a fighting game like Tekken 8 — and apparently, fans have been inquiring. Longtime Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada posted on X this weekend asking what the deal is with all the Waffle House requests. Obviously, the question was posed in the days before April Fools’ Day, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there turned out to be some jest baked into it all. But now that we’re having the conversation… Ok, I will only ask once about this request. Why do some communities send me requests for "Waffle House"? Please be sure to explain the basis for the request, including the original story, history and background...

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for March 31's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. What is Connections ? The NYT 's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common. Tweet may have bee...

Wondering how to watch the college basketball tournament? Here are your best options: Most affordable Paramount+ with Showtime 7-day free trial, then $11.99/month Get Deal Most channels FuboTV Pro plan 7-day free trial, then $59.99 for the first month (Save $20) Get Deal The Tennessee and Purdue men’s basketball teams are scheduled to meet in a tournament game in Detroit on Sunday, March 31. The game is scheduled to start at 2:20 p.m. ET.  No. 1 seed Purdue comes into the matchup 32-4 overall. Most recently, Zach Edey led Purdue with 27 points and 14 rebounds in an 80-68 win against Gonzaga on Friday in the tournament’s third round.  No. 2 seed Tennessee enters the matchup 27-8 overall. On Friday, the UT Vols defeated No. 3-seeded Creighton 82-75 in the third round of the tournament. Dalton Knecht led Tennessee with 24 points, six rebounds and five assists against Creighton. SEE ALSO: How to download the 2024 March Madness basketball bracke...

An AI chatbot released by the New York City government to help business owners access pertinent information has been spouting falsehoods, at times even misinforming users about actions that are against the law, according to a report from The Markup . The report, which was co-published with the local nonprofit newsrooms Documented and The City , includes numerous examples of inaccuracies in the chatbot’s responses to questions relating to housing policies, workers’ rights and other topics. Mayor Adams’ administration introduced the chatbot in October as an addition to the MyCity portal, which launched in March 2023 as “a one-stop shop for city services and benefits.” The chatbot, powered by Microsoft’s Azure AI, is aimed at current and aspiring business owners, and was billed as a source of “actionable and trusted information” that comes directly from the city government’s sites. But it is a pilot program, and a disclaimer on the website notes that it “may occasionally produce inco...

The 15-inch M3 MacBook Air is like the partner who frowns at you for not noticing their new haircut. But upon closer inspection, the new stimulus becomes clear, prompting you to say, “How did I miss that? What a change! You look great, babe!” Similarly, the new-generation M3 MacBook Air may not seem like a huge upgrade at first. “Alright, so it’s getting a new M3 chip – big whoop!” you may be thinking. However, once you look under the hood, you'll understand the hype. As someone who has been using the 15-inch MacBook Air – the one equipped with an M2 chip – it’s long overdue for a performance jump to keep up with increasingly demanding apps. Credit: Kimberly Gedeon / Mashable The new MacBook Air comes in two flavors – 13-inch and 15-inch variants – and it’s packed with a zippier M3 chip. “OK, what does that mean for me?” You may be wondering. Long story short, your favorite creator-focused apps, whether it’s Blender or Illustrator, should run faster, smoother, and more...

Canceling your Spotify Premium account is fairly quick and easy, and you'll still have access to your music library after cutting the digital cord. Your account will default back to a free one, which mostly means you'll be hearing a lot more ads, which can range from 15 to 30 seconds. If you're on the fence about canceling, Spotify offers multiple payment plans for ad-free listening and you can check out your options for switching Premium plans before outright canceling. If you're really ready to ditch Premium, here's how: Total Time 3 min. What You Need Web browser An internet connection Step 1: Navigate to spotify.com/account and log in to your account. If you wish to cancel a Spotify Family or Duo Premium plan, you must be the plan manager to make these changes. Step 2: Under "subscription," click "cancel plan." If there is no option to "cancel plan," your plan may be managed via a partner company, like your ...

Google is testing out an interesting experiment with YouTube. According to 9to5Google , YouTube is testing out an experimental feature (meaning it rolls out to a select few users before going wide) that would allow Premium users to automatically jump ahead to what they want to see. In other words, it would use machine learning data to determine what is the most interesting part of a video, and prompt users to go straight to said part. SEE ALSO: If you watched certain YouTube videos, investigators demanded your data from Google In practical terms, this would work similarly to the double-tap trick you can use on mobile devices to skip ahead by 10 seconds in a video, except you'd be skipping to a predetermined part of the video that YouTube has deemed interesting. Many YouTube videos already have a little "most replayed" graphic to let you know where people are scrubbing to the most, so maybe the data to enable this new feature already exists. Anyway, I haven't s...

Apple will finally launch new iPads in early May, according to Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman. Expected are a new iPad Pro with an OLED display and a faster iPad Air, including a 12.9-inch model for the first time in that lineup. The details of the upcoming iPad models have been consistent, circulating through the rumor mill since last year . The new iPad Pro models will reportedly add OLED displays (offering deeper blacks and richer colors ) and run on the new M3 chip, already found in several Macs . The new tablets are said to launch alongside a redesigned Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard. Other than a white color option, the latter has remained unchanged since its arrival four years ago. Meanwhile, the iPad Air will supposedly run on a new processor. Bloomberg didn’t specify which, but — considering the current model uses the M1 , and Apple likely wants to reserve the M3 for the more expensive Pro — the M2 sounds like a safe bet. The 12.9-inch screen option would mark the first tim...

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for March 28's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. What is Connections ? The NYT 's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common. Tweet may have bee...

Meta is failing to enforce its own rules against anti-trans hate speech on its platform, a new report from GLAAD warns. The LGBTQ advocacy group found that “extreme anti-trans hate content remains widespread across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.” The report documents dozens of examples of hate speech from Meta’s apps, which GLAAD says were reported to the company between June 2023 and March 2024. But though the posts appeared to be clear violations of the company’s policies, “Meta either replied that posts were not violative or simply did not take action on them,” GLAAD says. The reported content included posts with anti-trans slurs, violent and dehumanizing language and promotions for conversion therapy, all of which are barred under Meta’s rules. GLAAD also notes that some of the posts it reported came from influential accounts with large audiences on Facebook and Instagram. GLAAD also shared two examples of posts from Threads, Meta’s newest app where the company has tried to ...

An uptick in bots , a rise in hate speech , and content moderation policies that are unevenly applied to the social media platform's users. These are just some of the issues that have plagued X, formerly known as Twitter, since Elon Musk acquired the company back in October 2022. Now, roughly a year and a half later, it appears that Musk's X has lost almost a quarter of its user base. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk says Grok AI will be available to premium X users 'later this week' According to new data from third-party mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower, X's number of daily active mobile app users in the U.S. has fallen by 23 percent since November 2022. That would be the first full month in which X operated under Musk.  When looking at year-over-year data, mobile app users in the U.S. are down 18 percent from just one year ago. As of last month, there were 27 million daily active users on X's mobile app in the U.S. X on the decline? According to Sensor T...

Connections is the latest New York Times word game that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for March 27's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. What is Connections ? The NYT 's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common. Tweet may have bee...