Best Chromebooks Updated: Google’s Pixel has won a spot in our best Chromebooks list as one of the most powerful and fastest machines around. We’ve also added the revamped Dell Chromebook 11 to the list as well. Chromebooks are budget laptops that are both odd and brilliant, low-impact and potent. Running Google’s Chrome OS rather than Windows, they focus on what computing has been all about since the late ’90s,
Best 2-in-1 laptops Microsoft’s Windows 8 didn’t just shake up the company’s entire software empire, but the mobile computing industry as well. Given the dualistic nature of the new Windows, laptop and tablet makers responded in kind with devices commonly known as 2-in-1 laptops, or hybrid laptops. These are devices that are able to serve as both a laptop and a tablet, either in a detachable design that sees the
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – American physicians remained more likely to donate to Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections even as voters passed control of Congress to the Republican party, a study finds. While the percentage of doctors contributing to Republicans has for the most part been declining since the mid-1990s, 55 percent of physician donors backed Democrats in the last election cycle, just as they did in 2012,
For 6½ years, the Federal Reserve has held its key interest rate near zero, and for nearly that long the financial world has speculated about when the Fed will start raising it. Don’t look for it soon.
