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The Tech Gifts That Are Hard to Buy This Holiday Season
The list of scarce gadgets is long, driven by a chip shortage. Don’t wait until Black Friday for the best deals. Source
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Apple’s Most Back-Ordered New Product Is Not What You Expect
OAKLAND, Calif — Apple this month unveiled an array of new gadgets: more powerful MacBook laptop computers, AirPod wireless headphones with longer battery life and HomePod Mini speakers in three more colors. But a different […]
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Low-income households can now apply for a $50 monthly discount for internet.
Millions of low-income Americans became eligible on Wednesday for an emergency discount on high-speed internet service and devices to get online, an effort aimed at providing relief to families that have struggled during the pandemic […]
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Amazon and Apple Shift From Intel’s Chips, Driving Industry Change
SAN FRANCISCO — For close to a decade, supporters of the chip technology that powers mobile phones vowed to shake up the market for computers. For the most part, they made little headway. Now that […]
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Apple Introduces New Macs With the First Apple Chips
Apple unveiled three new Mac computers that use processors the company created itself, ending its reliance on Intel. Source
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Schools Struggle to Secure Computers
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. This period of remote schooling for so many families has made painfully clear the glaring gaps between […]
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The Digital Divide Starts With a Laptop Shortage
When the Guilford County Schools in North Carolina spent more than $27 million to buy 66,000 computers and tablets for students over the summer, the district ran into a problem: There was a shortage of […]