"It looks like you’ve clicked on an article about 'Clippy.' Would you like to know more?" For a generation of Microsoft Office users, "Clippy’s" cheerful, if occasionally intrusive, pop-ups were an ...

Microsoft Office 97 came out in the fall of 1996, and nearly thirty years later one software enthusiast with an eye for ...

Remember Clippy, a paperclip with floating eyes that served as Microsoft Office’s virtual assistant in the late ’90s and early 2000s? One of its most famous lines – which would appear in a pop-up ...

Some inventions are undeniably clever yet surprisingly irritating in everyday life. These inventions, though meant to be helpful and solved many purposes, instead annoyed millions of people. These ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Clippy, the animated paper clip that annoyed Microsoft Office users nearly three decades ago, might just ...

Think that Microsoft Office’s Clippy was a joke? Microsoft didn’t–Google Patents holds proof of the serious effort that the company poured into ever-unpopular animated “helpers” like Clippy, Microsoft ...

NORTH ADAMS — AI is a powerful technology that is transforming our world, and if that sounds good to you, just remember that peeing in a bowl of cornflakes also transforms it. Which is not to diminish ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is one of the companies that's been at the forefront of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution in the tech industry. It has invested billions into ChatGPT-maker OpenAI ...