Boing Boing on MSN

There's finally a way to get new versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without a subscription

TL;DR: Replace Microsoft 365 with a lifetime license for Microsoft Office 2024, now on sale for $129.97. The thing about software subscriptions is you're stuck paying for something you'll never ...

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, and Ren Larson, The Assembly ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of ...
Research Snipers

The Content Creation Renaissance: How AI is Redefining What’s Possible

Text-to-Video capabilities allow users to generate dynamic video clips, B-roll footage, or entire animated explainers based only on a script or description. This capability transforms written content ...

You no longer need a subscription to get Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Microsoft 365 is $99.99 per year, at minimum. A more affordable alternative is to switch to Microsoft Office 2024 Home and ...
eLife

Peer reviewers altered their recommendation based on whether they were cited or wanted to be cited. A matched study of open peer review at four journals

Peer reviewers judge the validity and quality of new research. These judgements would ideally be impartial, but some reviewers may give a more favourable review if they are cited in the article ...
Nature

Reporting standards and availability of data, materials, code and protocols

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...