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Those eagerly anticipating the 2021 Ford Bronco reveal have had their appetites whetted several times over the last couple of weeks. Weve seen quite a bit of the new Broncos exterior, including its front end, rear flanks, and much of the rest via a cool video released by Ford this week. But what we havent seen much of is the new Bronco interior. Until now, that is.

Our spies caught the new Broncos interior completely uncovered in some very revealing photos. And theres a lot to digest here. The overall look of the Bronco interior is very rugged and upright, which matches its exterior styling quite nicely. In fact, the theme is similar to that of the 2021 Bronco Sport.

Unfortunately, the top portion of the dash is covered somewhat, but we can clearly see a control panel at the very top of the center stack that contains (right to left) a button for the hazard lights, a button to disable traction control, and three buttons for controlling something related to the chassis. These buttons could be related to the front dig feature we outlined previously.

Directly beneath that lies a very large infotainment screen, which is flanked by two air vents. Meanwhile, the black horizontal dash top is contrasted nicely by a vertically-oriented silver center section, which is debossed with the new Bronco script on the passenger side. Two outboard air vents are located at the far ends of the dash.

Below the infotainment screen lies a media control panel, flanked by radio volume and tuning knobs. Other buttons within this section include the front camera, a switch to disable engine auto stop/start, a button to toggle the parking sensors, and audio controls for play/pause and tracks/stations tuning.

Directly beneath the media control panel is another panel for the HVAC / climate system. Aside from the typical buttons typically included on HVAC setups, its worth noting that the temperature control knobs for the dual zone climate control appear to display the temperature digitally inside the knobs themselves, much like on the new 2021 Ford F-150.

Moving downward to the center console, there is a large storage area with what appears to be both a USB-A (traditional USB) and the new USB-C ports. Theres also a large grab handle for the passenger to hold onto as well, which is something wed expect in a rugged off-roader. Directly behind that, theres a standard cupholder with room for two drinks.

This particular Bronco utilizes Fords 10-speed automatic transmission, as evidenced by the new shifter design. Behind it lies Fords familiar rotary knob, which in this case controls the drive modes so the driver can easily switch between two-high, four-high, four-low, and four-auto.

The window switchgear and mirror adjustments are located behind the rotary knob on the center console, not on the doors, much like on the Jeep Wrangler. This is because the doors will be removable.

Going back up to the drivers side of the SUV, the instrument panel is covered, but we get a pretty good look at the steering wheel, save for the center logo, which is covered up. Otherwise, the design of the wheel looks very similar to the ones present in other existing Ford models, with a three-spoke layout and open portion at the bottom. The wheel is actually quite similar to that of the aforementioned Ford Bronco Sport.

Overall, the new Bronco interior is a very attractive design that nicely complements what weve seen from the exterior. And in the days leading up to the Broncos reveal on July 13th at 8:00 p.m. EDT, were bound to see even more.

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McClatchys troubles can be traced back to 2006, when it bought its much larger rival, Knight Ridder, then the second-largest newspaper chain in the United States, for $4.5 billion, plus the assumption of $2 billion in debt. From the time shortly after the merger to the end of 2018, McClatchys work force went from more than 15,000 full-time employees to around 3,300, according to public filings. The current bankruptcy plan calls for McClatchy to cut staff further through 2022.

The Knight Foundation, a journalism nonprofit that originated with the family whose Knight Newspapers merged with Ridder Publications to form Knight Ridder, declined to comment for this article. It reported an endowment of more than $2.4 billion in 2019.

Chatham Asset Management, the company that could end up the winner of the McClatchy auction, is led by Anthony Melchiorre. In addition to taking control of the supermarket-tabloid publisher American Media in 2014, Chatham is a major investor in Postmedia, the publisher of Canadian newspapers including The National Post, The Montreal Gazette and The Ottawa Citizen.

Mr. Melchiorre, a Chicago-area native, worked on Wall Street at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, where he led its junk bond division. He set up his hedge fund in Chatham, N.J., in 2002. Chatham often takes on the debts of struggling businesses that still have good cash flow. American Media and McClatchy fit that profile.

For more than two years, the hedge fund has been trying to unload American Media publications, including The Enquirer. In 2018, American Media announced the sale of The Enquirer to the family that founded the Hudson News chain of newspaper and magazine shops. That deal still has not closed.

Chatham pushed for a sale of The Enquirer and other tabloids after American Media was under federal investigation. The chairman, David J. Pecker, was said to have helped Donald J. Trumps presidential candidacy through a deal struck with Karen McDougal, a Playboy model who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. American Media acquired her story for $150,000 and never published it, a practice known as catch-and-kill.

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There is no power on this earth that is capable of holding Facebook to account. No legislature, no law enforcement agency, no regulator. Congress has failed. The EU has failed. When the Federal Trade Commission fined it a record $5bn for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, its stock price actually went up.

Which is what makes this moment so interesting and, possibly, epochal. If the boycott of Facebook by some of the worlds biggest brands Unilever, Coca-Cola, Starbucks succeeds, it will be because it has targeted the only thing that Facebook understands: its bottom line. And if it fails, that will be another sort of landmark.

Because this is a company that facilitated an attack on a US election by a foreign power, that live-streamed a massacre then broadcast it to millions around the world, and helped incite a genocide.

Ill say that again. It helped incite a genocide. A United Nations report says the use of Facebook played a determining role in inciting hate and violence against Myanmars Rohingya, which has seen tens of thousands die and hundreds of thousands flee for their lives.

Facebook is not a mirror. Its a gun. Unlicensed, out of control, in the hands of 2.6 billion people across the planet

I often think about that report. When I watch documentaries showing Facebook employees playing ping-pong inside their Menlo Park safe space. When I took a jaunt to the suburban Silicon Valley town earlier this year and strolled down the normal street where Mark Zuckerberg lives his totally normal life as the sole decision-maker in a company the like of which the world has never seen before. When I heard that Maria Ressa, the Filipino journalist who has done so much to warn of Facebooks harms, had been sentenced to jail. When I read the Orwellian defence that our former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg wrote last week. Platforms like Facebook hold a mirror up to society, he said.

Facebook is not a mirror. Its a gun. Unlicensed it is not subject to laws or control it is in the hands and homes of 2.6 billion people, infiltrated by covert agents acting for nation states, a laboratory for groups who praise the cleansing effects of the Holocaust and believe 5G will fry our brainwaves in our sleep.

People sometimes say that if Facebook was a country, it would be bigger than China. But this is the wrong analogy. If Facebook was a country, it would be a rogue state. It would be North Korea. And it isnt a gun. Its a nuclear weapon.

Because this isnt a company so much as an autocracy, a dictatorship, a global empire controlled by a single man. Who even as the evidence of harm has become undeniable, indisputable, overwhelming has simply chosen to ignore its critics across the world.

Instead, it has continued to pump out relentless, unbelievable, increasingly preposterous propaganda even as it controls the main news distribution channels. And just as the citizens of North Korea are unable to operate outside the state, it feels almost impossible to be alive today and live a life untouched by Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.

The #StopHateForProfit campaign is focused on hate speech. Its what has united six American civil rights organisations in the US to lobby advertisers to pause their ads for July, a campaign precipitated by Facebooks decision not to remove a post by Donald Trump threatening violence against Black Lives Matter protesters: When the looting starts, the shooting starts.

But this is so much bigger than Facebooks problem with hate. And it goes far far beyond the US, though the role it will play in the US election is pivotal (and its worth noting that #StopHateForProfits demands dont extend to stopping lies in political ads, a crucial necessity). Facebooks harms are global. Its threat to democracy is existential.

Is it a coincidence that the three countries that have dealt with coronavirus worst are those with populist leaders whose campaigns exploited Facebooks ability to spread lies at scale? Trump, Bolsonaro, Johnson. Perhaps. Perhaps not.

And if you dont care about democracy, think for a moment about coronavirus. If and when a vaccine comes along, will enough people want to have it? Facebook is riddled with anti-vaxxing like its infected by antisemitism. If thats a mirror, Nick, you might want to take a long, cold, hard look in it.

Zuckerberg is not Kim Jong-un. Hes much, much more powerful. My guess is that all these advertisers will be back on the platform soon enough, he is reported to have told employees last week. And although 500 companies have now joined the boycott, the Wall Street Journal reports this represents only a 5% dip in profits. It may turn out that Facebook isnt just bigger than China. Its bigger than capitalism.

It comes, in the end, down to us and our wallets and what we say to these brands. Because the world has to realise that theres no one and no thing coming to the rescue. Trump and Zuckerberg have formed an unspoken, almost certainly unstated, strategic alliance. Only the US has the power to clip Facebooks wings. And only Facebook has the power to stop Trump spreading lies.

Sometimes you dont realise the pivotal moments in history until its too late. And sometimes you do. Its not quite yet too late. Just almost.

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There are plenty of third-party keyboards and mice available for Mac users.

Most are fantastic, but one annoyance about non-Apple keyboards is that they often lack a Mac-friendly layout that includes the Command and Option keys, as well as a row of shortcut keys, akin to what youd find on an Apple keyboard.

For example, the Logitech MX Keys has always been a dual-purpose keyboard, made for Windows or Mac users. Until now, that is.

Starting Tuesday, you can buy a Mac-specific version of the $99.99 MX Keys wireless keyboard, a $39.99 K380 multi-device Bluetooth keyboard, and the $99.99 MX Master 3 wireless mouse.

The Windows and Alt keys have been replaced by Mac-specific Option and Command keys on the MX Keys and K380. Theres also a function row that includes shortcuts for common tasks like viewing Mission Control, all of your installed apps, or controlling media playback.

The MX Master 3 and MX Keys now come in a very Apple-like space gray color to match its Mac, iPad and iPhone lines. To add variety, the K380 now comes in a brand new pink option, called rose, along with an off-white color.

It can switch between three Apple devices with the press of a button and offers a battery life of up to two years.

The MX Keys and MX Master 3 have both fit right into our normal work routine over the past few weeks.

The cupped key caps on the MX Keys keyboard provide a gentle reminder of where your fingers should rest between keystrokes, as well as offer a landing pad as you hammer away at an instant message or work document.

The 10-key number pad isnt something were accustomed to, having switched from Apples compact Magic Keyboard, but by the end of our testing, we found ourselves instinctively reaching for the number pad when needed.

You should be able to get about 10 days out of the MX Keys battery with the backlight turned on, or five months with the backlight disabled. Charging is done via a USB-C port on the back of the keyboard, and, yes, you can use the keyboard while it charges.

By far, our favorite feature of the MX Keys is its smart backlighting. Not only do the lights automatically adjust their brightness based on ambient lighting, but they turn off when you move your hands away from the keyboard and then they magically turn back on as your hands approach the keyboard.

Forget the fact that it saves on battery life; its just fun to use.

You can pair up to three devices to the MX Keys and switch between them with the press of a button.

We love everything about the MX Master 3 wireless mouse, which weve extensively tested. So much so, we named it the best ergonomic mouse in 2020.

The Master 3 offers a battery life of up to 70 days and is also charged via a USB-C port on the front of the housing, making it possible to charge and use the mouse at the same time.

Theres also a suite of gestures you can use to quickly move around your Mac, including holding in the gesture button on the far left side of the mouse and moving the mouse to complete tasks like switching between desktops or opening Mission Control. You can also customize the gestures using Logitechs Options program.

Weve also reprogrammed the two shortcut buttons that are found just below the vertical scroll wheel, to launch 1Password and to open Mission Control so we can quickly sign into apps or websites, or switch between apps.

You can even set up button functionality for different applications, like Chrome, Safari, Excel or Photoshop.

The entire MX line is built and designed for creatives who spend a lot of time working in video or photo editing software.

The MagSpeed scroll wheel took a few days to adjust to, but its definitely a highlight.

When you spin the wheel like youre on The Price Is Right to scroll through a long document, it can speed up to 1,000 lines per second, either until you stop it, or it eventually stops itself. That means you can accidentally scroll past what youre looking for. Or if you started scrolling and then moved your mouse to another window, the scrolling follows the pointer, and you can end up losing your place in a different document.

Our advice? If you start scrolling and need to move the mouse, first stop the wheel.

You can order any of the three new Mac-friendly devices from Logitech starting Tuesday. The K380 is priced at $39.99, while the MX Master 3 and MX Keys are priced at $99.99 each.

Note: The prices above reflect the retailers listed price at the time of publication.

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TORONTO -- A Toronto woman who refused to wear a mask while seeking treatment at a hospital and was forced out filmed and posted the incident on social media, drawing condemnation from local officials, celebrities and thousands of others.

Letitia Montana said she went to St. Josephs Hospital in Toronto with her son on July 4 for a "suspected broken finger."

"You're making me wear a mask otherwise you are going to deny me service," she is heard saying in the video filmed at the front counter of the emergency room.

"Yes, we're asking you to wear a mask," a nurse replies.

The video does not show Montana being escorted out of the emergency room.

It has since been viewed more than four million times.

Non-medical mask use has been encouraged by health officials across North America, and became mandatory in all indoor, public spaces in Toronto on Tuesday, as a means of slowing the spread of COVID-19.

A growing body of research has shown that mask use can reduce the emission of respiratory droplets that carry the virus, reducing the risk for people who cannot remain apart from infecting each other if both are masked.

It has also spurred backlash from some, including Montana, who say they lead to other health problems and their use was mandated as a form of political control.

Unity Health Toronto said Monday that its staff members at St. Joseph's Hospital were simply following the guidance of the Ministry of Health when asking Montana to wear a mask.

"This policy follows guidelines set out by Ontarios Ministry of Health based on our best scientific understanding of COVID-19 and how it spreads. We encourage all community members to seek care when they need it. At St. Josephs and any of our Unity Health Toronto sites, you will be asked questions about any COVID-19 related symptoms, to wear a mask and remember to maintain physical distancing in all parts of the hospital."

Toronto Mayor John Tory said he thought wearing a mask in a hospital emergency room of all places was a reasonable request.

"I dont think there are very many people who would argue with the requirement that when youre in a hospital, in the emergency room of a hospital, that you wear a mask."

Meanwhile, Health Minister Christine Elliott thanked the staff at St. Joseph's Hospital for their efforts.

"I would like to thank the brave frontline heroes at St. Joseph's Health Centre and across Ontario for putting themselves in harms way to care for us. When seeking care, each of us should follow all protocols in place at hospitals to help protect frontline workers and other patients."

Most on social media werent having any of it.

City of Toronto chief spokesperson Brad Ross warned Montana she was going to become a verb.

Councillor Michael Ford, who had to be hospitalized after contracting COVID-19 last month, chimed in as well, calling refusing to wear a mask selfish.

The encounter drew attention south of the border, where an even larger share of the population is up in arms against mask use due to COVID-19.

Montana said later on Twitter she stood by her decision to not don a mask in the emergency room.

On social media, Montana self identifies as a "truther," defined as a person who believes a conspiracy is blocking the public from learning the truth about an important subject.

She recently attended a protest in Ottawa demanding an end to lockdown measures and removal of the Liberals from power.

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