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How to Edit, Merge, and Split PDFs With Free Online Tools

How to Edit, Merge, and Split PDFs With Free Online Tools

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More than 30 years after Adobe came up with it, the PDF file—portable document format—remains essential for archiving, sharing, and publishing. It’s a file type that can be opened by just about anyone on virtually any mobile or desktop device, while preserving the formatting, colors, and layout of the original document. Given the ubiquity and popularity of the PDF, it’s no surprise that commercial PDF software tools are in high demand. But you don’t necessarily have to pay to process these documents, especially for basic editing operations. A host of PDF tools are available on the web that will let you quickly and easily manipulate your documents for free (with more advanced features and usage limits available for a price). There’s nothing to download, nothing to install, and nothing to pay, and they’re perfect for small-scale edits. We’ve picked three of the best online PDF app suites below, together with three common tasks you can do with them. While these sites are all well established and reputable, use some common sense with the documents you …

Neue Galerie to Merge with Metropolitan Museum of Art in Expansion

Neue Galerie to Merge with Metropolitan Museum of Art in Expansion

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Neue Galerie, a private museum in New York’s Upper East Side run by collector Ronald S. Lauder, will merge with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, making yet another major expansion of the latter institution’s modern art offerings. The New York Times reports that the merger will take place in 2028 and that the Neue Galerie will now be known as the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie, or the Met Neue for short. (The latter institution is located in a townhouse at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 86th Street, about a five-minute walk from the Met.) Related Articles The Neue Galerie is known for its deep holdings of German and Austrian modernist art, including masterpieces by Gustav Klimt, at least one of which is worth more than $100 million. Speaking to the Times, Lauder said that some of his museum’s holdings could be exhibited at the Met’s Fifth Avenue base, but “not certain pieces.” Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), which Lauder bought for an astounding $135 million, is one such work …

How Flipboard’s new Surf app lets you merge social feeds, YouTube, and RSS to escape the algorithm – finally

How Flipboard’s new Surf app lets you merge social feeds, YouTube, and RSS to escape the algorithm – finally

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Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Can a new social network make it? Flipboard Surf has a shot. Surf combines social networks with text, video, and audio feeds. Think of Surf as the anti-algorithm, anti-AI-slop social network. I’ll give Flipboard, the once-popular tablet news aggregator site, credit for chutzpah.  Also: A Meta-powered investment scam is spreading across 25 countries – how to spot (and avoid) it After a year in beta, its new Android app and website, Surf, go beyond simple news aggregation to incorporate content from social networking protocols like ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and good old Real Simple Syndication (RSS), enabling you to craft custom feeds blending posts and blogs from social networks such as Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads.  But, wait, there’s more Surf also lets you blend in podcasts and YouTube channels, making it a one-stop shop for your web reading, listening, and viewing. As Mike McCue, Flipboard and Surf’s CEO, explained in a statement, Surf’s mission is to help “podcasters, creators, …

OpenAI ‘Superapp’ to Merge ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas Browser

OpenAI ‘Superapp’ to Merge ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas Browser

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OpenAI has a Mac “superapp” in development that unifies its ChatGPT app, Codex coding platform, and Atlas browser, reports The Wall Street Journal ($). The idea behind the all-in-one app is to simplify the user experience, following the launch of several standalone products, some of which haven’t resonated with OpenAI’s customers. The company is also trying to bounce back after the recent successes of its main rival, Anthropic. OpenAI executives are said to be looking at areas it can deprioritize while it focuses on creating agentic AI capabilities within the new superapp that can work autonomously on a user’s computer to carry out various tasks like writing code and analyzing data. In an all-hands meeting last week, OpenAI’s chief of applications Fidji Simo reportedly told employees they couldn’t afford to be distracted by “side quests” given Anthropic’s rapid success winning over enterprise and coding customers. From the report: An OpenAI spokeswoman said the new “superapp” will enable teams inside OpenAI to work more closely together, and help the research division focus its efforts around improving …

Teacher Development Trust to merge into Chartered College

Teacher Development Trust to merge into Chartered College

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More from this theme Recent articles The Teacher Development Trust is to become part of the Chartered College of Teaching, the professional development charity has announced. TDT will be absorbed by the professional body for teachers this summer, in what its leader described as an “exciting” move that will “protect the legacy” of the 14-year-old charity. CEO Gareth Conyard said the decision “follows a period of thoughtful reflection about how best to protect and grow our mission in the long term”. He said TDT has “achieved significant impact” since it was founded in 2012 as a charity focused on improving professional development, working with more than 10,000 teacher and school leaders. “We believe the most responsible next step is to place this work into the stewardship of a larger, values-aligned organisation with the scale, infrastructure and reach to take it further.” Gareth Conyard Conyard described the wider schools market as “a tough place”, adding: “Rather than waiting until circumstances force change, we have chosen to act proactively and strategically, ensuring that our learning, resources and …

French court to decide on Sarkozy’s request to merge jail terms

French court to decide on Sarkozy’s request to merge jail terms

Published by Sam Flores

A French court is to rule Monday on whether former president Nicolas Sarkozy can escape serving more jail time, after his lawyer sought to merge two sentences for convictions in separate cases. The one-term president from 2007 to 2012 has faced a series of legal issues since leaving office. Last year, Sarkozy became modern France’s first president to have gone to jail, serving 20 days in a case related to alleged Libyan funding in his 2007 election campaign. Sarkozy has filed an appeal. Read moreEx-president Sarkozy’s 20-day prison diary: ‘Like the Count of Monte Cristo’? The 71-year-old has also received two definitive convictions in other cases. In December 2024, he exhausted his last legal recourse in the so-called “Bismuth” case for trying to extract favours from a judge and served a sentence with an electronic ankle tag that was removed in May last year after several months – allowed due to his age. In November last year, he received his second final conviction in what is known as the “Bygmalion” case over illegal financing of his …

Jobs at risk as Sun set to merge features desk and Fabulous team

Jobs at risk as Sun set to merge features desk and Fabulous team

Published by Sam Flores

Sun Fabulous magazine cover on 1 February and top of Fabulous website section on 4 February 2026 The Sun has proposed merging its features team with the Fabulous celebrity and lifestyle desk. Sun editor-in-chief Victoria Newton told staff last week that they plan to create a single features team, which will write and commission for Fabulous and features in print and online. This will include the daily print section Fab Daily and Sun on Sunday supplement Fabulous Magazine. Jobs have been put at risk, with a 45-day consultation period ongoing, but Newton said “new opportunities and roles” are being created by investment in the new structure. In an email, seen by Press Gazette, Newton said: “We need to future-proof the business, diversify revenue streams and meet the challenges facing all modern publishers, and I’m confident that this new proposed structure will unlock even more potential in the newsroom.” Fabulous has had a dedicated section on the Sun website since 2017 as part of a relaunch of the magazine into a seven-day publication. Verticals under the …

Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI in talks to merge, according to reports

Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI in talks to merge, according to reports

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Three of Elon Musk’s companies — SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla — are in play for a potential merger. While the talks appear to be in the early stage, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters, it could eventually lead to at least one company folding into SpaceX. Two scenarios are being hashed out. In one, SpaceX and Tesla would merge, per Bloomberg, citing unnamed insiders. In another, SpaceX and aXI (which already owns Musk’s social media platform X) would combine. According to reporting by Reuters, a merger between SpaceX and xAI could take place ahead of a planned SpaceX IPO this year. This would bring products like the Grok chatbot, X platform, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation. Company representatives from SpaceX and xAI have not discussed this possibility in public. However, recent filings show that two new corporate entities were established in Nevada on January 21, which are called K2 Merger Sub Inc. and K2 Merger Sub 2 LLC. This suggests that Musk is keeping all options open. There are upsides …

Elon to Merge SpaceX and xAI

Elon to Merge SpaceX and xAI

Published by José Betancourt

Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty Images Earlier this week, news emerged that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was considering taking his private space company public on his birthday in June at a staggering valuation of $1.5 trillion, making it easily the largest IPO in history. Now, as Reuters reports, Musk is hoping to go one step further, merging his AI startup xAI with SpaceX ahead of the IPO — a baffling plan that raises far more questions than answers. For now, we have no idea why the deal is even on the table, let alone the financial specifics. The narrative will likely have something to do with SpaceX helping xAI launch data centers into Earth’s orbit — an idea that AI tech leaders have become obsessed with as of late, despite experts warning it makes little sense, citing concerns over economic viability and bandwidth limitations. “The lowest cost place to put AI will be in space,” Musk said during an interview in Davos last week. “And that will be true within two years, maybe three …

OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain Tech Startup Merge Labs

OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain Tech Startup Merge Labs

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On Thursday, OpenAI announced its investment in neurotech startup Merge Labs, cofounded by its CEO, billionaire Sam Altman. OpenAI will collaborate with the new venture to develop technology to link people’s brains to computers. Merge Labs has raised $252 million in funding from OpenAI, private investment firm Bain Capital, video game developer Gabe Newell, and others to use ultrasound to read and modulate the brain. Merge joins a growing number of companies, including Elon Musk’s Neuralink, that are developing brain-computer interface technology. Its name comes from the Silicon Valley concept of “the merge,” the hypothetical point at which humans and machine intelligence combine to form a hybrid consciousness, which Altman has written about. Altman previously invested in Musk’s Neuralink, which has raised $1.3 billion so far. In contrast to Neuralink, Merge says it will not implant its technology in the brain. “We’re developing entirely new technologies that connect with neurons using molecules instead of electrodes, transmit and receive information using deep-reaching modalities like ultrasound, and avoid implants into brain tissue,” the company says on its …