In part, that's because the Gaze UI now supports keyboard input, whereas last year it was completely touchpad-based (and we all know touchpads aren't the most reliable things even under normal circumstances).

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"We've got to do this within quotes, because it's kind of a, you know, completely ludicrous claim, " Frere-Jones says.

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