Microsoft makes it easier to use pictures from your Android phone in Word or PowerPoint

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Microsoft’s rolling out a feature to Office Insiders that lets you insert images from your Android smartphones directly into a web-based Word or PowerPoint file. While Microsoft already offers ways to transfer content between Windows PCs and Android devices via the Phone Link app Microsoft revamped back in March, this marks the first time it’s building the functionality into one of its apps.

To get started, open a web-based Word or PowerPoint document, and then hit Insert > Pictures > Mobile Device. If you haven’t yet linked your Android device to your PC, you’ll have to take the extra steps to do so.

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You can also replace a document’s existing picture with one from your phone.

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AMD’s profits have cratered as the PC and crypto miner markets slow down

Illustration of one of AMD’s socketed desktop GPUs.
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AMD was riding high last year as consumers bought computers in droves and cryptocurrency miners snapped up every GPU they could get, but this year, the company has come crashing down to the ground. While it’s bringing in more money than it was before, thanks in part to better sales in the data center and gaming space, its third quarter profits dropped by 93 percent compared to last year.

According to its earnings report, AMD earned $66 million in profits in Q3 on around $5.6 billion in revenue. That’s not a particularly impressive figure on its own, but it gets worse when you compare it to its Q3 performance last year, where its profits were $923 million on $4.3 billion in revenue.

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NBPA Releases Statement Condemning Antisemitism

Irving is a vice president of the players association.

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The National Basketball Players Association released a statement Tuesday condemning antisemitism in the wake of Kyrie Irving’s doubling down on promoting the antisemitic film Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America on his Twitter page. Irving is a vice president of the NBPA. 

“Anti-Semitism has no place in our society,” the statement read. “The NBPA is focused on creating an environment where everyone is accepted. We are committed to helping players fully understand that certain words can lead to hateful ideologies being spread. We will continue to work on identifying and combating all hate speech wherever it arises.”

According to Rolling Stone, the film, which is based on a 2015 book of the same name, is “stuffed with antisemitic tropes.” Irving doubled down on his tweet during a heated press conference Saturday, taking several jabs at reporters who asked questions about the tweet.

“Did I do anything illegal? Did I hurt anybody?” Irving asked reporters in regard to the tweet. “Did I harm anybody? Am I going out and saying that I hate one specific group of people?”

In a tweet defending himself, he said in part, “The ‘Anti-Semitic’ label that is being pushed on me is not justified and does not reflect the reality or truth I live in everyday.”

The Nets condemned his decision to double down late Friday night, and team owner Joe Tsai followed it up with a statement of his own, expressing his disappointment in Irving’s stance. He tweeted, in part, “I want to sit down and make sure he understands this is hurtful to all of us, and as a man of faith, it is wrong to promote hate based on race, ethnicity or religion.”

The NBA also released a statement in wake of the matter, condemning hate speech, although it did not specifically name Irving. On Monday night during a game against the Pacers, a group of fans wearing “Fight Antisemitism” shirts and yarmulkes sat courtside. At one point, Irving acknowledged the group with a thumbs up. 

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Author: Joseph Salvador