Gifts for the students gearing up for college
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Back-to-school guides that lean heavily on tech signal where students expect “table stakes” capability—laptops, audio, and connectivity as default infrastructure. Edtech and campus IT should be designing services around that baseline, not assuming device scarcity.
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