Powering this slim machine is a seventh-generation Intel Core i7 processor, which is slightly slower than the eighth-generation CPUs other laptops are hitting the market with. That chipset was still perfectly capable of keeping up with my random app launches and browsing webpages when I played with a Swift 7 sample at Acer’s suite, though.…

Ipley Cross is a largely unremarkable place, an open plain where two roads cross: Beaulieu Road running north-to-south and Dibden Bottom running roughly east-to-west. Yet it is a place of notoriety. For good reason. Two Deaths And A Lucky Escape In August 2011 a 15 year old boy was cycling along Beaulieu Road when he…

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If 4-0 was a clear statement about the gap between Australia and England during the Ashes, then another figure says plenty about the fact that Steven Smith’s team have a lot of work ahead of them to become genuine contenders for the 2019 World Cup. Last year, Australia won only five of 15 ODIs, endured…

Accused: Michael Douglas [shown with wife Catherine Zeta-Jones at a movie screening in NYC] has come forward to shut down claims that he masturbated in front of a former employee 32 years ago Michael Douglas has sensationally come forward to deny that he sexually harassed a woman 32 years ago. The double Oscar winner spoke…

Viktor Lishavsky has been accused of more than 900 rapes and violent acts (Picture: East2West News)A gold-toothed foster dad has been accused of more than 900 rapes and violent acts against girls in his care. Reports in Russia say if convicted Viktor Lishavsky could be the ‘world’s worst paedophile’ after allegedly treating five schoolgirls as…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mudslides have shut down major roadways in California At least 13 people are dead amid « waist-deep » mudslides in Southern California, where heavy rains triggered flooding, say officials. Some 163 people have been taken to hospital. Twenty had « storm-related injuries » and four were critically hurt. A group of up to 300…

Humans figure out whether to develop as males or females based on the presence of a single gene on the Y chromosome. But that’s just one of a dizzying number of ways that plants and animals determine their sex. A large group of reptiles, including crocodilians and many species of turtles, use the ambient temperature.…

Berlin – Angst vor der Afrikanischen Schweinepest (ASP)! Deutschlands Bauern zittern vor dem hochaggressiven Virus, das sich aus Osteuropa nähert. In Polen und Tschechien ist die Seuche bis auf 100 Kilometer an die deutsche Grenze vorgedrungen. Doch wie schlimm kann es im Ernstfall wirklich werden? BILD beantwortet die wichtigsten Fragen. Woher kommt die Afrikanische Schweinepest?…