JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
The Atlantic

The Writing-Advice Book That Teaches Us How to Read

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...
InfoWorld

The JavaScript code won’t write itself

This month’s theme is: Keep an eye on the future but hone your coding craft in the now. Start here, with nine timeless JavaScript coding concepts, a look at Nitro.js—fast becoming the go-to server ...
The New York Times

What Declines in Reading and Math Mean for the U.S. Work Force

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...
Scientific American

Writing in Your Books Is Good for Your Brain—Here’s Why

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...
Hacker

How to Read and Write Files from Oracle Forms Using WebUtil

Vinish Kapoor is an Oracle ACE Pro, software developer, and founder of Vinish.dev, known for his expertise in Oracle. Vinish Kapoor is an Oracle ACE Pro, software developer, and founder of Vinish.dev, ...
9to5google

Gemini can read aloud Google Docs with new ‘Audio’ text-to-speech

As previewed earlier this year, Gemini in Google Docs will now let you “create audio versions of your documents.” On the web, go to the Tools menu for a new “Audio” option in-between Voice typing and ...
The New York Times

I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University. July 18, 2025 When I first told ChatGPT who I was, it sent a gushing reply: “Oh wow — it ...
Forbes

Google’s AI Starts Reading All Your Messages—How To Stop It

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. There’s an irony to the backlash that embroiled Meta when it added ...
The Conversation

We spent a month writing and reading in glass boxes. We read faster, wrote more – and inspired passersby

Lucy Christopher receives funding from Hobart City Council for this InsideOUT project. Fergus Edwards does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...
PBS

WATCH: Senate debates Trump’s budget package after reading full text of 940-page bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours before a tumultuous nearing-midnight vote on President Donald Trump’s package of tax breaks, spending cuts and increased deportation money, a Republican senator stood on the ...