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Apple announces new MacBook Air with improved keyboard, faster performance, and more storage

Image: Apple Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Pro is no longer the company’s only laptop with a reliable keyboard. This morning, Apple announced a revamped MacBook Air laptop with an improved scissor-switch keyboard, branded as the “Magic Keyboard,” that ditches the controversial butterfly mechanism of the previous-generation model. The new Air also offers double the performance, according

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As new high-resolution satellites, supercomputers, and AI networks collect massive amounts of geospatial science data, they pose threats to civil liberties (Becky Ferreira/VICE)

Becky Ferreira / VICE: As new high-resolution satellites, supercomputers, and AI networks collect massive amounts of geospatial science data, they pose threats to civil liberties  —  On Christmas Eve, 1968, the astronauts aboard NASA’s Apollo 8 spacecraft became the first humans to behold the entirety of Earth with their own eyes. As new high-resolution satellites,

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China's COVID-19 outbreak has exposed the country's digital divide in education, as many rural students lack the connections or hardware to learn remotely (Raymond Zhong/New York Times)

Raymond Zhong / New York Times: China’s COVID-19 outbreak has exposed the country’s digital divide in education, as many rural students lack the connections or hardware to learn remotely  —  In China, many rural students lack the connections or hardware to learn remotely.  More nations will confront the same reality as the outbreak spreads. China's

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