As much as I think the 330 offers pretty good bang for the buck, you can get a better deal if you opt for the Lenovo 100E, a super cheap education-focused laptop designed in partnership with Microsoft. It’s designed more for younger students, but if all you want is something for the classroom, the 100E…

Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sheldon Adelson, chairman and chief executive officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson has given $30 million to a super PAC pushing to protect the House majority, and is leaving the door open to putting millions more toward the Republican midterm effort this year,…

The Bank of England’s headquarters in the City of London, as it announced it will hold interest rates at 0.5% (Picture: Getty)The Bank of England has announced it is keeping its main interest rate at 0.5% amid evidence that the economy is slowing. The bank’s rate-setting committee voted 7-2 today to keep the main rate unchanged.…

The Guardian A one-year-old bear was taken from a Canadian zoo to a Dairy Queen drive-thru for ice cream. The zoo owners did not alert officials the bear was leaving the property — and it wasn’t the first time. The zoo is now facing charges. The bear appeared to be having a good time, though.…

My almost Russian-oligarch-free morning train reads: Buffett’s Alpha (SSRN); see also Warren Buffett will live forever, as researchers have cracked his code (MarketWatch) Tech Envisions the Ultimate Start-Up: An Entire City (the Upshot) Libor Refuses to Die, Setting Up $370 Trillion Benchmark Battle (Bloomberg) Asset managers double spending on new data in hunt for edge (Financial Times) Tech’s Two Philosophies (Stratechery) 96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDavid Goodall, 104, sets out his reasons for travelling to Switzerland to voluntarily end his lifeScientist David Goodall, 104, has died after choosing to end his life at a clinic in Switzerland, a right-to-die organisation says. The lauded ecologist and botanist, who was not terminally ill, said…