New Twists In The Microsoft-Yahoo Tale

By Digital Trends Staff April 9, 2008

Microsoft’s quest to take over Yahoo has entered into a series of turns trickier than any Formula One race track. Reports yesterday stated that Microsoft is now in talks with News Corp., which owns the Wall Street Journal and MySpace, to form a joint bid to take over Yahoo. If successful, that could create an Internet behemoth. But it’s far from the only development. Sources also say that Yahoo is in merger talks with AOL. And if that wasn’t quite enough for one day, Yahoo and Google have announced a two-week trial that will see them sharing ad space. During the period, Google will place ads on 3% of the search results on Yahoo – a very dramatic twist that gave a 7% boost to Yahoo shares. This has all happened since Saturday, when Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, gave Yahoo a three-week deadline to agree to his company’s offers. Yahoo has previously entered into talks with News Corp. itself as a way to counter the Microsoft bid. No details of the Microsoft-News Corp. alliance have been released. However, according to the New York Times, it seemed likely that News Corp. would put its Fox Interactive Media unit (which owns MySpace) into the pot, along with cash. If any of these partnerships works out, they will radically change the face of the Net.

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Intel’s new Arrow Lake CPUs can still consume a ton of power

Pins on Core i9-12900K.

Intel has made a big deal about the efficiency of its upcoming Arrow Lake CPUs, which are looking to earn a spot among the best processors when they release later this week. Some early benchmark results HXL on X (formerly Twitter) show that the CPUs can still draw a ton of power if you stray from Intel's default power settings, however.

The post, which you can see below, shows the Core Ultra 9 285K peaking at 370 watts of power draw in Cinebench R23's multi-core test. The CPU itself is blacked-out, but you can tell it's the Core Ultra 9 285K from the 24 cores picked up by Cinebench. The Core Ultra 9 285K has a maximum turbo power of 250W, according to Intel, and a base power of 125W.

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This new Google Docs feature is exactly what I’ve always wanted

Text box in Google Docs on a laptop.

As a writer of a certain age, I've lived a lot of life in Google Docs. It's where my first drafts go, but it's also where my crazy ideas, unhinged brainstorming, and research dumps go.
There’s so many conveniences about Google Docs that make it my go-to for word processing, but let’s be honest: It’s still fairly barebones, especially when it comes to organizing and managing different files within Google Drive. But this new feature makes all of that much easier, keeping it all contained all within Docs itself.
It’s called Document Tabs, which you may have already noticed floating just to the left of your document.

The idea is simple: It lets you create multiple documents within a single Docs file. Create as many “tabs” or separate documents as a single project might need, and switch between them extremely fast. That accessibility to them is really where the gold is. No more switching between different browser tabs.
It’s even more handy on mobile, of course, where switching applications or tabs is even more cumbersome. Here, you’ll find Document Tabs hovering just at the bottom of the screen with some simple arrows to flip between your different tabs. All we need now is a simple gesture to be added to flip between them even more seamlessly.
Document Tabs takes the place of the old outlining system, which would grab headers and automatically create a table of contents around them. I used this frequently, but it was pretty finicky. More than that, it resulted in overly long documents that I still found myself scrolling through.
Document Tabs is a really elegant solution to that problem. Whether it’s segmenting chapters in a book, multiple aspects of a project, or even just different parts of an article, it’s already become an extremely useful outlining and productivity tool for me.
It even had a pretty clean way of converting the tabs when you need to export. All the tabs do is combine down into one document, but they’re sectioned off with titles and some basic formatting. That’s not going to be ideal in every situation, of course, so it’s something to keep in mind if you need to export and share it with someone outside of Docs.
At the very least, though, it’s worth trying out. And if you’re a Google Docs fiend like I am, I have a feeling you’ll get quite a lot out of it.

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Asus’ insane new PSU looks fully RTX 5090-ready

The Asus ROG Thor III 1600W power supply with blue lightning around it.

Asus has announced its ROG Thor III series of power supplies, designed specifically for gamers and enthusiasts who demand the most from their systems, perhaps to earn a spot among the best PSUs you can buy.

The highlight of this new lineup is the flagship 1600W model, which comes with an 80 Plus Titanium certification, meaning that it can deliver superior energy efficiency for the most power-hungry setups, perhaps ahead of one particular GPU, the RTX 5090. The Thor III family also includes 1000W and 1200W models, both with 80 Plus Platinum certifications, making them highly efficient options for high-end gaming rigs.