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Windows 8 haters, rejoice. Microsoft has heard your cries and has brought back the Start button.
...If you've been in the market for a cheap, entry-level Chromebook, Acer's C7 Chromebook is the most affordable pick. And according to Engadget , Acer is introducing a 16GB solid-state drive option to the lineup.
The C7 will continue to cost $199, and the new storage hardware presumably won't affect the 100GB of Google Drive storage users also receive. Best Buy says that the laptop is on its way, though there is no official launch date. The device will still feature a dual-core 1.1GHz Intel Celeron 847 processor, 2GB of RAM, and plenty of ports, including VGA, HDMI, a built-in card reader, and three USB 2.0 ports. You can still purchase the 320GB standard hard disk variant of the laptop from Best Buy and other participating retailers for now, though it's unclear if this 16GB version is replacing the original.
We reviewed Acer's C7 Chromebook late last year and while
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For now, Brits will be spared HTC and Facebook’s collaborative smartphone, the HTC First , according to a report from Engadget. The device is notably a prominent showcase for the Facebook Home experience, but given the amount of negative feedback Facebook’s Android overlay got after its US launch, the company plans to overhaul Home before trying to get other countries interested in it.
Facebook launched Facebook Home back in April alongside the HTC First, which comes with stock Android and the Facebook Home interface (complete with its Cover Feed and “chat heads”) pre-installed. Reviews of Facebook Home have ranged from lukewarm to negative, in part because of the way it disrupts, rather than augments, the typical flow of using an Android phone.
Facebook Home carries a 2/5 star rating in the Google Play Store, while the HTC
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Many violent astrophysical phenomena, from quasars to some types of supernovae, are probably driven by accretion: gas falling onto a compact object. Frequently, the energy involved then blasts light and matter back into space, which is why we can see them.
Cataclysmic variables, a type of recurring explosion involving a low-mass star and a white dwarf, probably fall into that category. However, an observation of the closest cataclysmic variable system—known as SS Cygni—casts doubt on that interpretation. The outbursts from SS Cygni were simply too bright to be accretion-driven by any known mechanism, leading some astronomers to doubt whether the process was responsible for this system and, by extension, other cataclysmic variables. Some even
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