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Officials: School laptops held up ahead of new academic year

By SOPHIA TULPAugust 5, 2020 GMT

About 4,000 new laptop computers bound for an Alabama school district were held up over issues with manufacturers, weeks before the school year was set to begin with increased online learning amid the

Apple brings PC-like trackpad to iPad tablets

March 18, 2020 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Apple’s new iPad brings PC-like trackpad capabilities for the first time, as the company seeks to make its tablet even more like a laptop computer...

Nobel prize honors breakthroughs on lithium-ion batteries

By DAVID KEYTON, JAMEY KEATEN and CHRISTINA LARSONOctober 9, 2019 GMT

STOCKHOLM (AP) — If you're reading this on a cellphone or laptop computer, you might thank the three winners of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on lithium-ion batteries...

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Leominster Begins Student Laptop Quest

By Stephen Landry, slandry@sentinelandenterprise.comJanuary 23, 2019 GMT

LEOMINSTER -- An 18-month plan to provide students with new Chromebook laptop computers has begun. An appropriation request for $92,000 had already been sent to the City Council, according to Mayor Dean Mazzarella.

Abu Dhabi airport now exempt from US laptop ban

By JON GAMBRELLJuly 2, 2017 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The capital of the United Arab Emirates became the first city to be exempt from a U.S. ban on laptop computers being in the cabins of airplanes coming from the Mideast, the country's flag carrier said Sunday...

Business, leisure travelers ponder flying without laptops

By DAVID KOENIG and JOYCE M. ROSENBERGMay 17, 2017 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — International air travelers might soon rediscover magazines, paperbacks and playing cards...