Enlarge (credit: Tony Armstrong-Sly / Flickr) The urgency of action on climate change is a complicated thing. On the one hand, the harm of inaction is real and growing every year. On the other hand, there’s no such thing as “too late.” Plug in some numbers, and you can define a corresponding deadline to hit […]
Enlarge (credit: Robin Eckenroth | Getty Images) Last fall, Jeff Kreiter, director of operational services for the school district in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, found himself flooded with proposals to clean the air inside classrooms. The ideas varied—UV lights, air exchangers, a wide array of filters—but one looked especially promising: a bipolar ionizer. The system […]
Enlarge / Microsoft’s Surface Laptop SE. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft’s next Surface device is the company’s latest and most direct attempt to compete with Chromebooks in schools. The $250 Surface Laptop SE is a low-end, 11. 6-inch laptop computer made for basic browsing, document editing, and remote learning. The Surface Laptop SE runs Windows 11 SE […]
