Microsoft wants to make Notepad like ChatGPT, releases new update

Notepad has always been one of Windows’ most honest tools. Open it, type, save, close. No drama. But in 2025, even this tiny pocket of simplicity isn’t safe from the AI wave sweeping through Microsoft ...
The New York Times

Animation Hasn’t Been the Same Since ‘Toy Story’

The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...
Cartoon Brew

Computer Animation Before ‘Toy Story’: The Wild, Brilliant Experiments That Built CGI Animation

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the John Lasseter film Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature film, we’re taking a look at early CGI milestones in the days before Toy Story. But ...

‘Endless Cookie’ Review: An Animated Family History

In “Endless Cookie,” Seth and Pete Scriver’s kooky, grotesquely animated documentary, a rich oral history poetically blended ...
TweakTown

Notepad now lets you create tables, but is it one feature too many for this simple app?

TL;DR: Microsoft Notepad for Windows 11 now supports table creation with an easy toolbar grid and enhanced AI-powered Write, Rewrite, and Summarize tools for faster text generation. While these ...
TechSpot

Windows Notepad will soon support tables because why leave well enough alone

In context: Microsoft is going in some very wild directions with Windows development, with Notepad being one of the most outstanding guinea pigs in AI and design experimentations. Notepad now has the ...

Add markdown tables in Notepad on Windows 11 with ease — here's how

On Windows 11, you can now create tables with the expansion of the Markdown support in Notepad, and here's how to get started ...
PC World

Windows Notepad is testing advanced formatting options — like tables

Microsoft announced in a Windows Insiders blog post that its lightweight text editor Notepad is currently testing extended formatting capabilities with support for tables. The idea is to allow users ...
School of Visual Arts

Animate Your Stories From Start to Finish

This course will explore how to create an animated short working in all stages of animation such as continuity design, layout, character development and soundtrack mix. Emphasis will be placed on ...
The New YorkerOpinion

The Year in Slop

This was the year that A.I.-generated content passed a kind of audiovisual Turing test, sometimes fooling us against our ...

I paired NotebookLM with YouTube and learned faster than I ever did with note-taking apps

One of the most unexpectedly powerful results of pairing NotebookLM with YouTube is how easily it can turn video insights ...
The Verge

Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts

Microsoft is toeing the line in Trump’s America. Microsoft is toeing the line in Trump’s America. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for ...