New Microsoft Teams and Excel tie-in offers up the perfect recipe for productivity

Microsoft is readying an update for collaboration platform Teams that will bring spreadsheets directly into video meetings. As explained in the latest company blog post, Microsoft Teams users will soon be able to launch into Excel documents from the meeting screen, courtesy of a new feature called Excel Live. Instead of tabbing out to work…

Would you buy Bang & Olufsen’s part Bluetooth speaker, part Balenciaga bag?

The world of digital audio tech moves at breakneck speed and one can often uncover curious and highly intriguing partnerships – think Maserati and Sonus faber, Philips and Bowers & Wilkins, Dirac and Nio or Devialet and premium economy flight seats for starters. Sometimes these burgeoning relationships bear strange but beautiful fruit (see the Maserati Cielo…

M2 MacBook Air teardown casts doubt on cooling, and reveals a mysterious component

Apple’s MacBook Air (M2, 2022) has been given the teardown treatment by iFixit, with some interesting revelations about the cooling solution for the notebook, and a mysterious addition in the component mix, too. The finding included some things we already knew, courtesy of YouTuber Max Tech already having poked around in the innards of the…

Russia shuns the US dollar further as it looks to make deals with Iran and Turkey using local currencies

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images Russia is looking for more ways to distance itself from the US dollar as it eyes deals with Turkey and Iran using local currencies.  President Vladimir Putin traveled to Tehran this week to meet with leaders of each nation.  Last…

When a recession hits, it’s more likely you’ll start your own businesses — even if you didn’t plan to

Nearly 17 million Americans are self-employed, the highest share of the workforce since 2008. Self-employment is “countercyclical”, says the NASE’s Keith Hall, meaning many people turn to it during recessions. If another recession is on the horizon, it could push even more Americans to self-employment. If — as many have speculated — another recession is…

US stocks dip after big rally as earnings season ramps up with Tesla due to report

Maja Hitij/Getty Images Stocks dipped Wednesday ahead of Tesla and United Airlines earnings, which are due after the closing bell.  Roughly 10% of S&P 500 companies have reported earnings so far, with just under 70% beating expectations, per FactSet.  Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin warned the Nord Stream 1 pipeline could see further cuts to gas…