New York Times
The Digital Divide Starts With a Laptop Shortage
Millions of children are encountering all sorts of inconveniences that come with digital instruction during the coronavirus pandemic. But many students are facing a more basic challenge: They don’t have computers and can’t attend classes held online. A surge in worldwide demand by educators for low-cost laptops and Chromebooks — up to 41 percent higher than last year — has created monthslong shipment delays and pitted desperate schools against one another.
No Home, No Wi-Fi: Pandemic Adds to Strain on Poor College Students
Trapped between the financial hardships of the pandemic and the technological hurdles of online learning, the millions of low-income college students across America face mounting obstacles in their quests for higher education.
Apple Does Not Need to Return Fortnite to App Store, Judge Rules (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 10/11/2020 - 16:03Stacy Mitchell: Don’t Let Amazon Get Any Bigger (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 10/09/2020 - 06:48Justice Department Appeals Injunction Against TikTok Ban (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 19:15Pence-Harris Debate Is No. 2 in Vice-Presidential Ratings, With 58 Million TV Viewers (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 19:11Justices wary of upending tech industry in Google v. Oracle Supreme Court fight
Things got technical at the Supreme Court as the justices heard arguments from Google and Oracle in a blockbuster copyright dispute that has captivated Silicon Valley for a decade. The dispute concerns about 11,500 lines of code that Google used to build its popular Android mobile operating system, which were replicated from the Java application programming interface developed by Sun Microsystems. Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010, sued Google shortly afterward, arguing that Google’s use of the code violates its ownership rights.